Other Invertebrates
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 1,700 small order invertebrate specimens. These date from the mid 19th century to the present. This collection comprises approximately 1,000 dried specimens, 400 specimens in spirit, 200 microscope slides and 100 glass models by Blaschka of Dresden. It includes sponges (Porifera); corals, jellyfish, sea anemones, hydroids and hydrozoans (Cnidaria); flatworms, tapeworms and flukes (Platyhelminthes); bristle worms, earthworms and leeches (Annelida); roundworms (Nematoda); lamp shells (Brachiopoda); sea mats (Bryozoa); peanut worms (Sipuncula); ribbon worms (Nemertea); velvet worms (Onychophora); rotifers (Rotifera); tunicates and sea-squirts (Urochordata); lancelets (Cephalochordata); and foraminifers, radiolarians, amoebas and flagellates (Protozoa). Specimens originate predominantly from the coastal and deep-water areas of Scotland, although many specimens come from a range of environments around the world. The scientific strength of the collection is the large number of deep-water specimens of corals collected off the west coast of Scotland by the research vessels Challenger and Walther Herwig. These come from the Rockall Through, Porcupine Bank, Anton Dohrn Seamount and similar areas.
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