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The Herbarium of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences was founded in early 1959. After the hard work of several generations of scientists, it has now become the largest and richest collection of herbarium in Southwest China. It is part of the Kunming Zoological Museum. part. The specimen storage area is 2111.12 square meters. The storage areas include animal storage, bird storage, amphibious crawling storage, fish storage, and insect storage. Specimen storage methods include: soaking, drying, peeling, and refrigerating. The Herbarium currently has nearly 900,000 animal specimens of various types, including type specimen No. 6518/613 species/subspecies, covering almost all ecological types of animal specimens in Yunnan’s "Animal Kingdom" and neighboring provinces, with strong regional characteristics. The collection of specimens includes many rare species such as golden monkeys, giant pandas, black-necked cranes, vultures, white-tailed rainbow pheasants, sea turtles, female tortoises, Chinese sturgeons, golden-spotted swallowtails, etc., highlighting the diversity of the world’s biodiversity in our collection The importance of the abundant biodiversity specimens in the southwestern region of China in the sex hotspots. Many specimens in the collection were also collected from other regions. Based in the southwest, covering the whole country, and facing Southeast Asia is the positioning of our collection of specimens.
The abundant animal specimens not only provide a solid scientific research foundation for the scientific research personnel of the Institute and the cultivation of relevant professional masters and doctoral students, but also provide enthusiastic and thoughtful scientific research support services for all relevant professional researchers at home and abroad. , And also trained a large number of nature reserve staff for various nature reserves in Yunnan Province.
The herbarium will make greater contributions to the development of China's animal sciences, sustainable use of animal resources, biodiversity conservation research, and social development and technological progress with a new look, and exert greater social benefits.
Herbarium of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Address: No. 32, Jiaochang East Road, Kunming City
Zip code: 650223
Email: yanghui2@mail.kiz.ac.cn
Curator: Dongdong Wu
Deputy curator of the Herbarium:Song Li
Contact information of each collectiong room manager
| Administrator | Landline telephone | Internal line | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animal specimen Collection Room | Song Li | 0871-651369664 | 6301 | lis@mail.kiz.ac.cn |
| Bird Specimen Collection Room | Luming Liu | 0871-651369664 | 6201 | liulm03@mail.liz.ac.cn |
| Amphibian and reptile specimen Collection Room | Shuo Liu | 0871-651369664 | 6201 | 097041011@163.com |
| Fish specimen Collection Room | Rui Min | 0871-651369664 | 6201 | tz88000302@gmail.com |
| Insect Specimen Collection Room |
Hao-miao Zhang Kaiqin Li |
0871-651369664 | 6201 |
zhanghaomiao@mail.liz.zc.cn likaiqin@mail.kiz.ac.cn |
| Curator Of Paleozoological Section |
Ji Xueping |
0871-0000000 | 0000 |
tz88000302@gmail.com |
18213021178
0871—65199680
yanghui2@mail.kiz.ac.cn christinasy@sina.com
No. 32, Jiaochang East Road, Wuhua District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province
