Tardigrade Collection of Ramazzotti

Registro biológico Espécimen
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Descripción

The collection of Tardigrada by Giuseppe Ramazzotti, preserved at the Water Research Institute of the National Research Council (CNR-IRSA) in Verbania, Italy, is composed of numerous slides and microscopic preparations of tardigrades, including animals and their eggs. It is a historical collection that includes samples taken over a period of years from 1938 to 1964 in Europe, Africa, North and South America by one of the Italian taxonomists working on the phylum Tardigrada. The dataset of the Ramazzotti collection is composed of 3319 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, Verbania. For this reason, each record in the database is associated with a photograph of the microscopic slide. The data have been organized into a standardized Darwin Core Archive format, so that they can be harmonized and be available globally, through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility infrastructure (GBIF).

Registros

Los datos en este recurso de registros biológicos han sido publicados como Archivo Darwin Core(DwC-A), el cual es un formato estándar para compartir datos de biodiversidad como un conjunto de una o más tablas de datos. La tabla de datos del core contiene 3.319 registros.

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Occurrence (core)
3319
Multimedia 
6638

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Versiones

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¿Cómo referenciar?

Los usuarios deben citar este trabajo de la siguiente manera:

Zaupa S, Fontaneto D, Piscia R, Kamburska L (2025). Tardigrade Collection of Ramazzotti. Version 1.26. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=tardigrade_collection_ramazzotti&v=1.26

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Registro GBIF

Este recurso ha sido registrado en GBIF con el siguiente UUID: e9aeed17-b33f-4af2-8471-9be87633d7e1.  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque publica este recurso y está registrado en GBIF como un publicador de datos avalado por Participant Node Managers Committee.

Palabras clave

Darwin Core; GBIF; occurrence; tardigrada; Specimen

Contactos

Silvia Zaupa
  • Proveedor De Los Metadatos
  • Originador
  • Punto De Contacto
  • Technician
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
  • Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50
74123 Taranto
Taranto
IT
Diego Fontaneto
  • Proveedor De Los Metadatos
  • Originador
  • Punto De Contacto
  • Researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA); National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)
  • Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50 CNR-IRSA
28922 Verbania
Verbania
IT
Roberta Piscia
  • Curador
  • researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
  • Largo Vittorio Tonolli 50
28922 Verbania
Verbania
IT
Lyudmila Kamburska
  • Originador
  • researcher
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA); National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC)
28922 Verbania
Verbania
IT
Roberta Piscia
  • Curador
CNR-IRSA
Verbania
IT

Cobertura geográfica

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).

Coordenadas límite Latitud Mínima Longitud Mínima [-90, -180], Latitud Máxima Longitud Máxima [90, 180]

Cobertura taxonómica

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.

Reino Animalia
Filo Tradigrada, Tardigrada
Class Heterotardigrada, Eutardigrada
Orden Echiniscoidea, Apochela, Parachela
Familia Calohypsibiidae, Ramazzottiidae, Richtersiusidae, Isohypsibiidae, Milnesiidae, Hypsibiidae, Echiniscidae, Murrayidae, Oreellidae, Doryphoribiidae, Macrobiotidae

Cobertura temporal

Periodo de formación 1938 -1964

Datos del proyecto

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.

Título Digitalization of the tardigrade collection of Giuseppe Ramazzotti
Fuentes de Financiación Project ITINERIS (Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System)
Descripción del área de estudio worldwide

Personas asociadas al proyecto:

Métodos de muestreo

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.

Área de Estudio A total of 4178 records of occurrences for the period 1938-1964 are present in the dataset: 859 refer to slides, 3319 to the actual samples of Tardigrada. Of these, 1751 have a species name, subsumed from the information on the slide, whereas for the others a taxonomic revision is necessary, because the same slide contains more species, and a specialist is needed to attribute each sample to the correct species. However, these individuals have been assigned to a higher taxonomic level such as genus, order or family. Nomenclature of the species was also updated to the currently used synonyms, using WORMS as a reference site (https://www.marinespecies.org). When possible, the coordinates were found by reporting the locations written on the label in Google Earth. Since the specific coordinates of the sampling points are not known, the Locality centroid was used. A total of 204 locations are present in the dataset, but it was possible to trace the coordinates for 88. Data are georeferenced according to WGS 84 datum.
Control de Calidad Quality control for geographic data: Reliability of coordinates where available was checked in Google maps. Geographic coordinate format, coordinates within country/provincial boundaries, and the absence of anomalous in the dataset were also double checked. Quality control for taxonomic data: The revision of the species nomenclature was done using WORMS as a reference site. Taxon specialists: Giuseppe Ramazzotti, Walter Maucci.

Descripción de la metodología paso a paso:

  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.

Datos de la colección

Nombre de la Colección Collezione di Tardigradi di Ramazzotti
Identificador de la Colección https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/91ebb3a8-89cb-4403-8324-3ea2d6d445d1
Métodos de preservación de los ejemplares Disecado
Unidades curatoriales Entre 1.938 y 1.964 microscope slides ,  Entre 1.938 y 1.964 StillImage

Referencias bibliográficas

  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

Metadatos adicionales

Agradecimientos ITINERIS, EU - Next Generation EU PNRR- Mission 4 “Education and Research” Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”, and National Biodiversity Future Centre (NBFC), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, PNRR, Missione 4 Componente 2, “Dalla ricerca all’impresa”, Investimento 1.4, Project CN00000033.
Introducción The collection has a scientific value per se, being a collection of slides of a poorly studied group of animals, the phylum Tardigrada, in addition to a historical value. The collection was prepared by Giuseppe Ramazzotti (with the exception of 4 slides prepared and identified by Walter Maucci), an Italian amateur taxonomist who lived from 1898 to 1986. In 1962, he proposed the phylum Tardigrada, and in 1968, at the age of sixty, he became a professor at the University of Milan (Bertolani et al., 2011). The Ramazzotti collection is composed of ten boxes, numbered in progressive order with Roman numerals, containing a variable number of slides. There are a total of 855 slides divided as follows: box I contains 100 slides, II 98, III 98, IV 100, V 99, VI 93, VII 85, (VIII is missing), IX 83, X 82 and box XI contains 17 slides.
Primeros pasos The dataset was developed at CNR-IRSA in Verbania, Italy, and organised in a systematic and coherent way according to Darwin Core Standards (Wieczorek et al., 2012). A total of 4185 records of occurrences for the period 1938-1964 are present in the dataset: 859 refer to slides, 3319 to the actual samples of Tardigrada. Of these, 1778 have a species name, subsumed from the information on the slide, whereas for the others a taxonomic revision is necessary, because the same slide contains more than one species, so a taxonomic expert is needed to attribute each sample to the correct species. However, these individuals have been assigned to a higher taxonomic level such as genus, order or family. Nomenclature of the species was also updated to currently used synonyms, referring to the World Register of Marine Species, WoRMS (https://www.marinespecies.org). We kept all available information for the Collection, thus the dataset with each row containing a record of a tardigrade individual with taxonomy information and images. Dataset includes 4 categories based on the type of information: (i) Basic information regarding the institution to which the collection belongs, with names, acronyms and type of collection. They also refer to the label, including the name of the species and the person who originally performed the determination, as well as the date of first identification, the type of preparation, link to images of the slide and of the animal; (ii) Taxonomy information of the species after taxonomic revision following WoRMS as reference site; (iii) Morphology category about the digitised specimen, with two columns: gender and lifeStage; (iv) Sampling information, such as location, date, who collected the sample and sampling method.
Propósito In the framework of the project ITINERIS, the Ramazzotti collection of Tardigrada, preserved at the Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy (CNR- IRSA) in Verbania, Italy, has been the subject of digitization. It is a historical collection that includes samples taken over a period ranging from 1938 to 1964 from different areas of the world. Most of the samples were taken in Europe, in particular from Italy, but also from Germany, France, Finland, Norway, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Other samples are from Africa (Uganda and Congo), North America (United States and Mexico) and South America (Chile).
Descripción de mantenimiento Future changes to the dataset due to quality control activities might change its content, however the updates of the dataset are not planned.
Identificadores alternativos e9aeed17-b33f-4af2-8471-9be87633d7e1
https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=tardigrade_collection_ramazzotti