It gathers about 200,000 specimens, standing out among the largest in Brazil. The collection includes Annelida, Brachyopoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Chordata, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Echinodermata, Entoprota, Foraminifera, Nematoda, Nemertea, Phoronida, Platyhelminthes, Porifera, Priapulida, Rotifera, and Tardigrada, including about 650 types. Although most of the species in the collection are marine (western Atlantic with special reference to Brazil and the Antarctic Ocean), there is extensive material of terrestrial origin, coming from continental waters and parasites of vertebrates and invertebrates, essentially from the Neotropical region.
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