The Bryozoan collection of the Museo Civico di Zoologia of Rome

The Museo Civico di Zoologia of Rome houses a collection of Bryozoa donated by Professor Carla Chimenz Gusso. The collection includes 1403 specimens preserved dried or in ethanol, 90 slides and 487 specimens on stubs (in gold). The collection also includes the types of Retevirgula akdenizae Chimenz, Nicoletti & Lippi Boncampi, 1997, and Plesiocleidochasma mediterraneum Chimenz Gusso & Soule, 2003. Most of the collection material was sampled in the Mediterranean Sea, largely off the Italian coasts, between the early 1970s and 2005. Besides species endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, the collection houses representatives of some species of particular conservation interest because considered threatened. They are: Reteporella aporosa (Waters, 1895), Reteporella feuerbornii (Hass, 1948), Reteporella grimaldii (Jullien, 1903) and Myriapora truncata (Pallas, 1766).