Digitization of the primate collection of the Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

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Description

The Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (MNKNU) has the largest primate collection in Ukraine, comprising 217 specimens of 58 species, including Homo sapiens. The non-human species represented in the museum comprise 11% of the total number of primates, according to the Mammal Diversity Database v2.2 (further MDD, accessed August 2025), and are distributed across four of the eight biogeographic kingdoms, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The foundation of the MNKNU’s primate collection dates back to the first quarter of the XIXth century, thus, the record for the oldest stuffed animal in the collection - a golden lion tamarin Leontopithecus rosalia (L., 1766), - dates back to 1826. The collection is represented by several types of preservation groups and includes 103 stuffed animals, 87 dry, and 27 wet preparations. In 2009, the museum's Primates catalog was published on paper. Since then, changes to systematics, new additions to the collection, and the urgent need to safeguard information about the collection due to the high risk of destruction by the Russian army have made digitizing the MNKNU Primates collection relevant. It also provides an opportunity to make it available and remotely accessible to a wider range of dedicated specialists.

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Comment citer

Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:

Perevozchikova N, Yeremenko S, Yatsenko Y, Mazepa G (2025). Digitization of the primate collection of the Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Version 1.3. Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=mnknu_catalogue_of_primates&v=1.3

Droits

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L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0.

Enregistrement GBIF

Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède lUUID GBIF suivante : f3b1bab1-e799-415f-b383-2ae6d72cad15.  Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec lapprobation du Participant Node Managers Committee.

Mots-clé

Occurrence; Primates collection; historical catalogues and inverntory books; Specimen

Contacts

Nataliia Perevozchikova
  • Créateur
  • Senior researcher
Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • Trinkler str., 8
61000 Kharkiv
Kharkiv
UA
Svitlana Yeremenko
  • Créateur
  • Senior Researcher
Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • Trinkler str., 8
61000 Kharkiv
Kharkiv
UA
Yurii Yatsenko
  • Créateur
Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • Trinkler str., 8
61000 Kharkiv
Kharkiv
UA
Glib Mazepa
  • Personne De Contact
Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • Trinkler str., 8
61000 Kharkiv
Kharkiv
UA
Glib Mazepa
  • Personne De Contact
  • Researcher
Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • Trinkler str., 8
61000 Kharkiv
Kharkiv
UA
Oleh Prylutskyi
  • Curateur Des Données
Falz-Fein Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine

Couverture géographique

With a minor exception, the primate vouchers lack exact information on the sampling localities, yet, their taxonomic affiliation covers South America, Africa, and Eurasia.

Enveloppe géographique Sud Ouest [-90, -180], Nord Est [90, 180]

Couverture taxonomique

Pas de description disponible

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758
Order Primates Linnaeus, 1758
Family Pitheciidae Mivart, 1865, Daubentoniidae Gray, 1863, Galagidae Gray, 1825, Hominidae Gray, 1825, Lorisidae Gray, 1821, Cercopithecidae Gray, 1821, Cebidae Bonaparte, 1831, Tarsiidae Gray, 1825, Hylobatidae Gray, 1871, Callithricidae Gray, 1822, Callithricidae Gray, 1821, Lemuridae Gray, 1821, Atelidae Gray, 1825

Couverture temporelle

Epoque de formation 1826-2005

Données sur le projet

electronic catalogue with originally reidentified specimens (stuffed animals, n=103) and with listed vouchers of other types of preservation.

Titre Digitization of the primate collection of the Museum of Nature of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Financement Voluntarily

Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:

Natalia Perevozchikova
Svitlana Yeremenko
Yurii Yatsenko

Méthodes déchantillonnage

Cited from Perevozchikjova et al. (in press): "I. Historical data of the MNKNU primate collection covers period between 1826-1995 and includes following archival sources: i) the original records of the systematic card index of the MNKNU (composed between 1826-1889, and contains 24 records compiled within 1826-1875 for primates); ii) Book for recording additions to the Zoological Cabinet. Material Book (maintained 1826-1862); iii) Systematic catalogue of objects stored in the Zoological Cabinet of the Imperial Kharkiv University until 1848 (Chernay, 1849); iv) Systematic catalogue of objects stored in the Zoological Cabinet of the Imperial Kharkiv University until 1848 (Chernay, 1854); v) Inventory book of the Zoological Museum of the Biological Faculty of the A.M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (22 March 1937 - 24 July 1941); vi) Inventory workbook № 2 of the Museum of Darwinism of the Biological Faculty of the A.M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (1944); vii) Main inventory book of the Museum of Nature of the A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (1976) – currently in use and renamed into "Inventory book № 1 of the Museum of Nature of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, started Jan. 1976 - ended 1976, from #1 until #1403"; viii) Inventory book of the Department of the Origin of Human (1948-1995); ix) Catalogue of collections of the Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Primates (Mammalia: Primates) (Levchenko & Perevozchikova, 2009). II. Initial taxonomic determination in the majority of cases relied upon the original labeling of the new acquisitions by the Museum. Specifically, that concerned vouchers from the XIXth century: for those items no taxonomical revision has been conducted ever (archival sources i-iv). During the second half of the XXth century, numerous vouchers have been donated by Kharkiv Zoo, and their determination relied upon original Zoo records, which was reflected in the source viii. This inventory book is an unofficial list for internal departmental use, and the species names were filled in by hand by two museum employees – Rudaeva A.V. (working years 1945-1996) and Levchenko D.R. (1970-2016). Among them, only three specimens were determined by Rudaeva. Hereby, the catalogue (Levchenko & Perevozchikova, 2009) followed taxonomical determinations available from the aforementioned sources i-viii. For present work, we conducted verification and critical taxonomical redetermination of the stuffed animals only (n=103), following systematic framework of the order Primates L., 1758 by the MDD (accessed Aug 2025), redetermination was made with essential assistance of Dr. Hector E. Ramirez-Chaves (Medellin Univ., Colombia). We also verified the collection with the Illustrated checklist by Burgin et al. (2020). As for the rest of vouchers stored in the collection (non-stuffed, n=114), we provided already extant taxonomic records indicating the necessity of such revision in the future. "

Etendue de létude This electronic primates catalogue of the MNKNU is accompanied by the descriptive data paper (Perevozchikova et al, in press). There are records on 217 vouchers of primates, belonging to 59 taxa, which is the largest collection of primates in Ukraine.
Contrôle qualité Cited from Perevozchikjova et al. (in press): "Digitization workflow included: i) Photographing of the stuffed animals by digital camera Canon EOS 1300D, with processor DIGIC 4+ under the following specification: resolution 2973х2685 pixels, ISO – 100, focal distance 18 mm, color depth 24 (sRGB), no flash used; ii) Similarly, photographing of the archival sources i-viii; their pdf versions (pages that contained primate records) were published with the Zenodo digital repository, the associated DOI are provided within References;"

Description des étapes de la méthode:

  1. Cited from Perevozchikjova et al. (in press): "I. Historical data of the MNKNU primate collection covers period between 1826-1995 and includes following archival sources: i) the original records of the systematic card index of the MNKNU (composed between 1826-1889, and contains 24 records compiled within 1826-1875 for primates); ii) Book for recording additions to the Zoological Cabinet. Material Book (maintained 1826-1862); iii) Systematic catalogue of objects stored in the Zoological Cabinet of the Imperial Kharkiv University until 1848 (Chernay, 1849); iv) Systematic catalogue of objects stored in the Zoological Cabinet of the Imperial Kharkiv University until 1848 (Chernay, 1854); v) Inventory book of the Zoological Museum of the Biological Faculty of the A.M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (22 March 1937 - 24 July 1941); vi) Inventory workbook № 2 of the Museum of Darwinism of the Biological Faculty of the A.M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (1944); vii) Main inventory book of the Museum of Nature of the A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University (1976) – currently in use and renamed into "Inventory book № 1 of the Museum of Nature of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, started Jan. 1976 - ended 1976, from #1 until #1403"; viii) Inventory book of the Department of the Origin of Human (1948-1995); ix) Catalogue of collections of the Museum of Nature of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Primates (Mammalia: Primates) (Levchenko & Perevozchikova, 2009). II. Initial taxonomic determination in the majority of cases relied upon the original labeling of the new acquisitions by the Museum. Specifically, that concerned vouchers from the XIXth century: for those items no taxonomical revision has been conducted ever (archival sources i-iv). During the second half of the XXth century, numerous vouchers have been donated by Kharkiv Zoo, and their determination relied upon original Zoo records, which was reflected in the source viii. This inventory book is an unofficial list for internal departmental use, and the species names were filled in by hand by two museum employees – Rudaeva A.V. (working years 1945-1996) and Levchenko D.R. (1970-2016). Among them, only three specimens were determined by Rudaeva. Hereby, the catalogue (Levchenko & Perevozchikova, 2009) followed taxonomical determinations available from the aforementioned sources i-viii. For present work, we conducted verification and critical taxonomical redetermination of the stuffed animals only (n=103), following systematic framework of the order Primates L., 1758 by the MDD (accessed Aug 2025), redetermination was made with essential assistance of Dr. Hector E. Ramirez-Chaves (Medellin Univ., Colombia). We also verified the collection with the Illustrated checklist by Burgin et al. (2020). As for the rest of vouchers stored in the collection (non-stuffed, n=114), we provided already extant taxonomic records indicating the necessity of such revision in the future. "

Données de collection

Nom de la collection MNKNU Primates
Identifiant de collection https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/31867c33-171b-4478-ae9e-8143aae6e819
Méthode de conservation des spécimens Mounted,  Dried,  Formalin,  Alcohol,  Other
Unités de conservation Entre (nombre minimal) 217 et (nombre maximal) 217 vouchers

Citations bibliographiques

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  2. Anonym (1826-1862). Book for recording additions to the Zoological Cabinet. Material Book [handwritten] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17542249
  3. Anonym (1826-1875). Cards of the systematic index stored at the MNKNU (XIXth century: 1826 - approx. 1889) [handwritten]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17522971
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