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MÜNSTER: The Zoological Collections of the LWL-Museum of Natural History in Münster

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The zoological collections of the LWL-Museum of Natural History in Münster date back to the mid-nineteenth century. Since then, the focus on collecting objects of importance to the natural history of the region “Westphalia” remains. The collection contains more than one million specimens of insects; the majority belongs to the orders Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Among the different kinds of invertebrate collections, there is a collection of 100,000 spiders. The vertebrate collections, for example, contain more than 26,000 objects within the bird collection and 13,000 objects within the mammalian collection.

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  1. LWL-State Museum of Natural History, Sentruper Str. 285, 48165, Münster, Germany

    Jan Ole Kriegs & Heinrich Terlutter

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  1. Jan Ole Kriegs
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Correspondence to Heinrich Terlutter .

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  1. Department of Biology, Zoological Collection, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    Lothar A. Beck

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Kriegs, J.O., Terlutter, H. (2018). MÜNSTER: The Zoological Collections of the LWL-Museum of Natural History in Münster. In: Beck, L. (eds) Zoological Collections of Germany. Natural History Collections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44321-8_46

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