Curation activities of the MZUSP Fish Collection: Alto Paraná system

• Grant number: 05/05203-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Technical Training Program - Technical Training
• Start date: July 01, 2006
• End date: March 31, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Francisco Langeani Neto
• Grantee: Marcos Yoshihiro Yokoi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Curation activities will envolve: sort of new material; identification; insertion of data in the collection data bank, speciesLink, and Sinbiota; labelling new lots; organization of the collection; taking digital images of species; making reports concerning deposited material by period, drainages, and taxonomic categories.