MCZ: Marine Invertebrates
People
- Robert M. Woollacott: Curator, Professor of Biology
- Mary Catherine Boyett: Curatorial Assistant (Collection Manager)
The Marine Invertebrates Collection Holdings
The Marine Invertebrates Department is composed of the dry and spirit collections of phyla Echinodermata, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, and associated protochordates. Historic and type rich, the collection holds approximately 3,025 type specimen lots. Current major projects include rehousing the entire ethanol collection, and databasing catalog data.
Digital x-ray of a Blaschka Glass Invertebrate model (ca. 1875)
of a tunicate colony (likely Diazoma violacea).
Echinoids in the Marine Invertebrates collection
(MCZ 3866, Sphaerechinus granularis) collected in 1898 from the
Mediterranean.