Sistematización y estimación del índice de salud de la colección de ictiología del museo de historia natural de la Universidad De Pamplona, Colombia.

Abstract

Natural history collections are essential tools that allow us to study biodiversity and promote conservation. In Norte de Santander there is currently only one zoology collection, this is attached to the José Celestino Mutis Museum of Natural Sciences of the University of Pamplona. It was created in 1980, the ichthyology collection being the first to be formed biogeographically framed towards the Catatumbo region, unfortunately the collection was left unmanaged for almost a decade, and after several transfers the specimens began to deteriorate, in recent years it has been developing an effort to recover the collection, which is why it is pertinent to diagnose the state of conservation of the collection. For this, each of the specimens will be evaluated considering the organization, management and conservation, in accordance with the levels of curatorship, proposed in the book on Care and Management of Biological Collections, this will allow the health index of the collection to be calculated. and biodiversity knowledge indicators, determining the taxonomic representativeness, temporality and completeness of the data associated with the specimens.