The Crustacean Collections from the Amazon Region (CCRUSTAM) website (http://www.biodiversidadeamazonica.net/crustaceos) is part of the Amazonian Biodiversity Portal (http://www.biodiversidadeamazonica.net), which gathers distinct projects and iniciatives dedicated to the dissemination of data and information about the fauna and flora of the Amazon Region.
The aim of the CCRUSTAM website is to provide access to the records of the collections from institutions that keep specimens of crustacean from the Amazon Region. In this first version, it encopasses the collections from five Brazilian institutions: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA (Manaus), Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi – MPEG (Belém), Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá – IEPA (Macapá), Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo – MZUSP (São Paulo) e o Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – MN/UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro). Other institutions that have Amazonian crustaceans in their collections are invited to joint this initiative.
The CCRUSTAM website was elaborated within the scope of the Research Program in Biodiversity of the Brazilian Ministery of Science and Technology – MCT and had financial support from the MCT and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Develpment – CNPq (http://www.cnpq.br).
This is a first version and, therefore, mistakes and inconsistencies may be found. Please, read carefully the terms and conditions of use of the database. Communication of any errors or inconsistencies to the respective curator will be much welcome. This first version is in Portuguese only; an English version will be released soon.
For more information, please contact Dr. Célio Magalhães from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
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