About the collection
The Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate collection has about 1.5 million registered specimens, microscope slides, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) stubs and photographic images. The collection includes more than 9000 type lots, including more than 2000 primary types (types are the original specimens on which the first description of a particular species or subspecies is based).
The largest portion of the collection is from New South Wales, followed by other areas of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. The Museum also holds extensive sea star, urchin and sea cucumber (echinoderm), sea squirt (ascidian), sea spider (pycnogonid) and sponge collections.
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