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Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Annelid Collection

Atlas of Living Australia
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (Associated with)
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The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) Annelid Collection comprises about 32,000 lots of registered specimens, including 80 holotypes and 249 paratype lots. The Polychaete marine bristle worms are by far the best represented group, but the collection also includes earthworms and leeches (Clitellata). The Polychaete collection has representatives from marine and estuarine areas throughout Northern Australia, in particular Darwin Harbour, Bing Bong (MacArthur River) and Gove. Other areas well represented in the collection are North Western Australia, tropical Queensland, Papua New Guinea and the Timor and Coral Seas. Specimens can be lent to workers at other institutions upon application and the MAGNT also welcomes visiting researchers.

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annelida | annelids | fauna | polychaetes | preserved | segmented worms | taxonomic | tissue |

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ACN 633 798 857