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South Australian Museum - Australian Helminthological Collection

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

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The Australian Helminthological Collection (AHC) of the South Australian Museum includes approximately 42,000 registered lots of helminths (e.g. nematodes, tapeworms, and other parasitic flatworms). Most helminths in the collection are from Australian native vertebrates, but there is material from Australian domestic and zoo animals, livestock and humans and from hosts collected overseas. Many of the worms in this collection were donated by one of Australia’s most famous parasitologists and zoologists, Professor T. Harvey Johnston. Some of Johnston’s specimens were collected when he travelled to Antarctica as Chief Zoologist with Sir Douglas Mawson in 1929 as part of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expeditions. Material is either kept in bottles of ethanol or mounted on microscope slides. The AHC is used frequently by researchers and students, nationally and internationally, for taxonomic and biodiversity studies.

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Title South Australian Museum - Australian Helminthological Collection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f47e5aea-fbcc-49b8-b1b3-b48dca31ec79
Remote Last Updated 21/03/2022
Contact Point
South Australian Museum
DataSA@sa.gov.au
Reference Period 26/06/1860 - 26/06/2022
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on South Australia Government "South Australian Museum - Australian Helminthological Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-museum-australian-helminthological-collection