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EnglishCurator: MSc. Inácia Maria Vieira
The IEPA Zoological collection has been the faithful custodian of the State of Amapá since March 08, 2005, the IEPA Zoological Fauna Collection having been appointed the legal depository of genetic heritage component samples by the Board of Genetic Heritage Management (CGEN) through Resolution No.87 of February 24, 2005. The Collection is utilized by the Biodiversity Corridor Initiative as part of its collaborator program, carrying out 11 expeditions throughout the State, the main sampling areas being the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, the National Forest of Amapá and the Sustainable Development Reserve of River Iratapuru. These units protect large areas of mainland forest and are in an excellent state of conservation, ensuring that collections exemplify the natural composition of the sampled fauna. These collections have amassed an important State of Amapá biodiversity legacy, emphasizing their importance from a world conservationist perspective, but also bringing a high amount of responsibility to the Amapá Fauna Collection and IEPA due to the conservation of very rare specimens on a worldwide scale, such as the small marsupial, the Marmosa lepida, whose specimen, collected in the Amapá National Forest, is the only 15th such specimen collected in the world.
IEPA Zoological Collection inventory (2010 data):
Entomofauna (insects)...... 40,000 specimens
Crustaceans...................... 11,000 specimens
Fishes................................. 5,000 specimens
Reptiles and amphibians.. 2,000 specimens
Birds.................................... 1,000 specimens
Mammals............................ 1,100 specimens
Holotypes: Scientific name, author and year (Order, Family).
Phenacogaster apletostigma, Lucena & Gama, 2007 (Pisces, Characiformes, Characidae).
Paratypes: Scientific name, author and year (Order, Family).
Phenacogaster apletostigma, Lucena & Gama, 2007
(Pisces, Characiformes, Characidae).
Lestrimelitta nana, G. A. R. Melo, 2003
(Hexapod, Hymenoptera, Apidae).
Frieseomelitta garmeloi, F. F. de Oliveira, 2001
(Hexapod, Hymenoptera, Apidae).
