CATALOGUE-2018 Marine Biodiversity Museum CMFRI Special Publication No. 129
2018
A new Marine Biodiversity Museum was established at Kochi following the
shifting of the headquarters of the Institute from Mandapam to Kochi. The
Museum was inaugurated by Padma Vibhushan Prof. M.S. Swaminathan on
4th February 2006. The museum now holds around 2300 specimens of various
categories such as fishes, echinoderms, molluscs, crustaceans, corals, seaweeds
etc. These specimens are of fundamental importance to taxonomic, systematic
and biodiversity studies. The first catalogue on Marine Biodiversity Museum
comprised of specimens belonging to all the groups was published in 2012. The
present catalogue prepared by the Marine Biodiversity Division of the Institute
is expected to update the present status of the specimens in the museum as
on March 2017. I am happy to bring out this catalogue in the year of Platinum
Jubilee celebrations of CMFRI (1947-2017). The help and support extended
by the previous Directors of CMFRI and Museum-in-charges are gratefully
acknowledged.
Majority of the specimens in the Museum represents the collections made by
scientists of CMFRI as part of their research activities. The keen interest shown
and the sincere effort put in by the scientists of the Institute in building up this
Museum as an invaluable gift to those who pursue science need special mention.
They have deposited their valuable specimens in the Museum and contributed
in one way or the other to bring it to the present status. I congratulate all
those who have been involved in the collection, preservation, identification and
cataloguing of the specimens in the Marine Biodiversity Museum.
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