Tardigrade Collection of Ramazzotti

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 3,319 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Zaupa S, Fontaneto D, Piscia R, Kamburska L (2025). Tardigrade Collection of Ramazzotti. Version 1.27. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=tardigrade_collection_ramazzotti&v=1.27

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e9aeed17-b33f-4af2-8471-9be87633d7e1.  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Darwin Core; GBIF; occurrence; tardigrada; Specimen

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Continent: Europe, Africa, North America, South America. Study area by continents and countries: Europe (Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) Africa (Congo and Uganda), North America (Mexico and United States) and South America (Chile).

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset is composed of taxa belonging to the tardigrade phylum. Taxonomic ranks: Data from species, genus, family, order and class rank were included in the dataset.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The collection of Ramazzotti has a scientific value per se, as a collection of slides of a poorly studied group of animals, the phylum Tardigrada, in addition to a historical value. The dataset of the Ramazzotti collection is composed of 3319 tardigrade records, prepared within the Project ITINERIS (Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System) dedicated to build the Italian Hub of Research Infrastructures in the environmental scientific domain. The purpose of creating this dataset is to protect the information through the digitalization of the samples, and to facilitate sharing the information on the animals collected by Ramazzotti and stored at CNR-IRSA in Verbania. For this reason, each record in the database is associated with a photograph of the sample in question. All details are described in Zaupa et al., 2025.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

As reported on the slide the samples were collected by pumps in an aquatic environment, while for terrestrial ones the sampling methods are unknown. Habitat types for sampling were mosses and lichens in different substrates, soil, water. Different mounting media and colourants were used for the preparation of the slides: mainly Faure and Polyvinyl, but also Formalin, Lactophenol, Carmine Acetic, Chlorazol Black, Eosin methylene, Potassium hydroxide, Turtox CMC-S.

Method step description:

1. The specimens were photographed using a microscope Zeiss Axioplan, with TiEsseLab TrueChrome HD IIS camera and Leica DM6 B, with Leica K3C camera. The size of each photo ranges from approximately 5 MB to 18 MB in BMP and Tiff format. The photos have been renamed to give a unique code for each image, using: CollectionCode, the Roman numeral of the box, the slide number and the number of the specimen. When there is only one animal in a slide, the last number has been omitted. e.g.: RamVB-III-31_4 = box III-slide 31_animal 4. The unique code for each photo is the same as that assigned to the record in the database for the same individual. Photos of slides have been renamed with the Roman numeral of the box, the number of the slide, and the letter S, to indicate that it is the image containing the slide.

Collection Data

Bibliographic Citations

1. Castelli A, 2023. A Limbo Between Beckett and Kafka: The Tartar Steppe. CRIT.: STUD. CONTEMP. FICT., 64(5):728-736. doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2022.2086791
2. Capocci M, Corbellini G, 2002. Adriano Buzzati-Traverso and the foundation of the International Laboratory of Genetics and Biophysics in Naples (1962–1969) Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 33(3), 489-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1369-8486(02)00007-9
3. Granata M, 2015. The Capital of Innovation. In: Smart Milan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17263-7_5
4. Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D (2012) Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
5. Zaupa S, Fontaneto D, Piscia R, Kamburska L. 2025. “Digitalization of the Tardigrade Collection of Giuseppe Ramazzotti”. Journal of Limnology 84 (May). https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2217. https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2025.2217

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