[Taxacom] Fire at Butantan Institute, São Paulo, Brazil, destroys a major collection of snakes and arachnids

[Alex Popovkin]

http://www.estadao.com.br/estadaodehoje/20100516/not_imp552413,0.php
(in Portuguese).

The collection started in 1890s had 85,000 specimens of snakes,
representing hundreds of spp.
The arachnid collection numbered 450,000 specimens.


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