Simone Farina- PhD
- Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at University of Pisa
Simone Farina
- PhD
- Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at University of Pisa
Curator in charge of Vertebrate Zoology Division.
Natural History Museum - University of Pisa
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Renzo Rosati was an Italian physician who lived in Congo from 1907 to 1910 with the task entrusted to him by the Belgian government to study sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases. In this period he set up a collection of 228 skin-prepared birds collected from various localities of Congo from 18-10-1909 to 28-06-1910. This paper not only pro...
A recent paper highlighted the need for increased attention towards species that have vanished from scientific literature and proposed a new nomenclature in view of needed conservation actions, based on the time interval since their disappearance. Here, we propose to implement this concept by showcasing a taxonomic perspective that is often overloo...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa conserva una collezione zoologica osteologica di oltre 2000 esemplari che appartiene nella quasi totalità alla collezione storica e include alcune centinaia di scheletri completi montati. Il nucleo originario è stato costituito principalmente da Paolo Savi (direttore del Museo dal 1823 al 1871) e...
The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa hosts the most important osteological collection of extant cetaceans in Italy as well as one of the most relevant all over Europe. Furthermore, it also preserves a significant palaeontological collection that includes several holotypes and otherwise unique specimens of Archaeoceti (archaic cetace...
Riassunto Il patrimonio culturale marino italiano ha per tradizione e storia un'imponente ricchezza di collezioni museali naturalistiche, con migliaia di reperti ossei e tassidermizzati di vertebrati marini, costruite in oltre due secoli di attività. I reperti museali rappresentano la conoscenza primaria ed unica della biodiversità organismica ed e...
Members of the extant shark family Echinorhinidae (i.e., the bramble shark, Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) and the prickly shark, Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann, 1928)) are characterised by thorn-like dermal denticles that can grow very large (up to about 15 mm in diameter in E. brucus). Despite their conspicuous size, such elements are ov...
The Monti Pisani massif (Tuscany, central Italy) is an isolated mountain relief known for its rich geodiversity, including a remarkable palaeontological heritage from the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. The Palaeozoic record consists of exquisitely preserved plant remains and rarer invertebrates of Permo-Carboniferous age, which testify to...
The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa hosts one of the most important osteological collections of cetaceans all over Europe, as well as a conspicuous paleontological collection, including several holotypes of Archaeoceti (archaic whales), Mysticeti (baleen whales), and Odontoceti (toothed whales). In order to valorize these collectio...
Taking its place in the northern portion of the Apuan Alps, the “Tecchia” of Equi cave (Equi Terme, MassaCarrara Province, Italy) represents a cave of great palaeontological and archaeological relevance. Here, abundant faunal remains have been collected, mostly Late Pleistocene (MIS3) mammals such as the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus Rosenmuller, 1794)...
Three species of Sphyrna (S. lewini, S. mokarran and S. zygaena) are known to inhabit the present-day Mediterranean Sea, whereas uncertainties exist about the presence of S. tudes in the same basin. Indeed, the presence of this typically westernAtlantic shark in the Mediterranean Sea is supported by as few as two historical specimens that were capt...
The “Tecchia Preistorica” (Equi Terme, Massa–Carrara Province) is a cave of great palaeontological and archaeological relevance that opens in the northern sector of the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy). Abundant faunal remains have been collected from this cave, being mostly represented by late Pleistocene (MIS3) mammals. In 2014, two extremely small sk...
The karst complex of “Grotte di Equi” (i.e. the Equi caves) is located at about 300 m a.s.l along the Fagli Valley, close to the village of Equi Terme, in the northern area of the Apuan Alps. This cave system develops in the Metacalcari con Selce Formation (Apuan Unity, Lower Jurassic), consisting
of flint-bearing metacalcilutites and metacalcareni...
Natural history museums are irreplaceable tools to study and preserve the biological diversity around the globe and among the primary actors in the recognition of species and the logical repositories for their type specimens. In this paper we surveyed the consistency of the preserved specimens of amphibians and reptiles housed in the major Italian...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa ha sviluppato un programma di 6 anni (2017-2022) che ha previsto il completo rinnovamento e la realizzazione di nuovi allestimenti dedicati ai mammiferi.
L’obiettivo è stato quello di sensibilizzare i visitatori sul tema della biodiversità ed in particolar modo sulle molte specie a rischio di est...
Historical samples of branchite, described by the Tuscan naturalist Paolo Savi (1798–1871) at the end of the 1830s, were re-examined through single-crystal X-ray diffraction, showing their identity with hartite, C 20 H 34 , a hydrocarbon mineral described by Haidinger in 1841. The refined unit-cell parameters are a = 11.4116(7), b = 20.9688(12), c...
The Botanic Garden of Pisa was established in 1543 as a teaching tool and research facility. As with the vast majority of its sister institutions, it focuses on plant collections. However, for a short time in the first half of the XIX century, the Botanic Garden exhibited a living giraffe, a cow, and a calf. Due to the transient nature of the exhib...
In this paper, we will describe a temporary exhibition held at the Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa (Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa, hereafter MSN), Italy, in year 2020-2021, and the educational and awareness raising results that the proposed approach has produced. The aim of this exhibition was to guide the visito...
This paper describes the zoological specimens collected by Giuseppe Raddi during the Franco-Tuscan expedition to Egypt (1828–1829) held in the collection of the Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa. Twenty-two specimens exist, including four amphibians preserved in alcohol, and 18 taxidermy specimens (16 birds, 2 mammals). Among these i...
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L’inquinamento da plastica è un problema globale che colpisce la nostra vita quotidiana, la protezione dell’ambiente e la salute umana. La mostra temporanea “La plastica e noi”, allestita nella Galleria dei Cetacei del Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa, con i rifiuti in plastica accumulati dallo staff del Museo in otto mesi...
L’inquinamento da plastica oggi rappresenta un problema ambientale a scala mondiale che
si ripercuote su molti aspetti della nostra vita quotidiana e incide anche sulla nostra salute.
La mostra temporanea "La plastica e noi" realizzata presso il Museo di Storia Naturale
dell’Università di Pisa vuole sensibilizzare i cittadini e suggerire l’adozione...
Abstract - L. Vanni, S. Farina, Birds collected by Orazio Antinori in
the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa.
The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa preserves an extensive
ornithological collection that includes a number of specimens
from the most important Italian expeditions of the XIX century. The
birds collected by...
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Negli ultimi anni il Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa ha intrapreso una politica museale volta ad ampliare e diversificare il proprio pubblico, che ha portato a un considerevole aumento del numero dei visitatori.
Parallelamente, il Museo ha sviluppato una nuova strategia di comunicazione in linea con gli obiettivi e i valo...
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The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa has recently acquired the Barbero collection, one of the most important private collections of Italy. It consists of 629 animals, 334 of which are mammals (248 complete naturalized specimens and 86 hunting trophies). Most of the mammals were hunted by Giorgio Barbero in the wild main...
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La Tecchia di Equi (Fivizzano - MS) costituisce un interessante esempio di frequentazione in grotta sulle Alpi Apuane.
Nel Paleolitico fu utilizzata come ricovero temporaneo per Uomo e faune (soprattutto Ursus spelaeus), nell’Età
del Rame fu spazio sepolcrale, mentre tracce di un edificio medievale si trovano nel Riparo esterno. Oggi la G...
The study of a prime adult female skeleton of brown bear, Ursus arctos, found in "Abisso Oriano Coltelli" cave is here reported. A new bone formation on the thoracic vertebrae was investigated by x-ray examination suggesting a longitudinal ligament injury caused by a circumscribed trauma, with ossified hematoma. The specimen was dated providing a c...
ABSTRACT - La collezione ornitologica del Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa, attualmente in fase di revisione sistematica, consiste in oltre 5000 esemplari naturalizzati, ai quali si aggiungono i preparati osteologici, i preparati anatomici, le pelli e la collezione di nidi. Il nucleo della collezione storica è stato principalmente f...
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Negli ultimi dieci anni, il Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Pisa si è impegnato nel potenziare la propria
funzione educativa, arricchendo l’offerta didattica fino ad includere oltre 50 progetti ed ottenendo un sensibile
aumento dell’utenza scolastica.
Con il progetto “Il Museo entra in Classe!” si è affrontata la difficoltà di...
Abstract - Catalogue of the late Pleistocene-Holocene fossil mammalian
collection from “Canale delle Acque Alte (Canale Mussolini)” (Natural
History Museum, University of Pisa). The catalogue of the paleontological
mammalian collection of “Canale delle Acque Alte (Canale Mussolini)”
(Agro Pontino, Latium) stored at the Natural History Museum
of the...
RIASSUNTO Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Pisa, a partire dal 2010, ha iniziato uno studio innovativo basato sulle nuove tecnologie applicate alla comunicazione museale. Lo studio ha riguardato l'utilizzo dei codici Data Matrix e Qr code. La lettura di questi codici con la fotocamera di uno smartphone permette all'utente di visualizz...
On a bone breccia near Uliveto Terme (Monte Pisano,Italy). The study of the macromammal remains of a bone breccia from the Uliveto quarry (Monte Pisano, Pisa) is here presented. The fossil material is scanty and very fragmented and consists mainly of Dama dama remains. The presence of Dama dama has been recognized also in another fossil site of the...
A new record of triassic dinosaur footprint from Monte Pisano (Northern Apennines, Italy): True or false?. The Upper Triassic continental deposits of Monte Pisano (Northern Apennines) preserve a high number of tetrapod tracks: Some of them are among the most ancient italian records of dinosaurs. In this work we describe a putative, isolated ichnite...
Catalogue of the Late Pleistocene fossil mammalian collection from "Grotta Parignana" (Natural History Museum, University of Pisa). The upgraded catalogue of the paleontological collection of "Grotta Parignana" (Monte Pisano, Italy) is presented. The recovery of the material and the discovery of isolated tags referred to the old Canavari inventory...
The article explores the different educational methodologies adopted by the Museum of Natural History of the University of Pisa, through the recently re-organised Environmental Education Centre of the Museum. Results are provided showing the significant increase in the number of educational programmes and in school and student participation, spanni...
The classification of the fossil mammalian remains from «Grotta Parignana» is updated. Of the many taxa represented in the sample, some have never before been reported. These include Felis silvestris and Cricetus sp. Basic information allowed to assess the minimum number of individuals and to make assumptions on the environmental conditions under w...
The classification of the fossil mammalian remains from the "Canale delle Acque Alte" collection is here revised. The stratigraphical provenance of the fossil material has now been reconstructed based on paleontological and sedimentological evidence derived from analyzes of the faunal assemblage and the sediment residue that specimens still preserv...
The study of the fossil mammals from the «Grotta Cucigliana» collection is here updated. The standard taphonomic parameters NISP, MNE and MNI were established to evaluate the relative frequencies of the taxa. Hypotheses regarding the environmental conditions under which the fauna lived are also proposed on the basis of the results and the ecology o...
The application of the data matrix codes to the exhibition «Back to the past - A 500 million-year trip to Monti Pisani» is here presented. Reading these codes with the camera-equipped smartphones permits to visualize information and pictures about eight specimens that lived in the Monti Pisani 217 million-year ago (Triassic). The innovative applica...
