La Specola Museum of Zoology and Natural History in Italy

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La Specola Museum of Zoology and Natural History
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Accession Code	MZUF
Type	museum
Founded	1775
Opened for public	1775
Address	Via Romana, 17, 50125 Firenze FI, ItalyOpened:
Place	Florence
Country	Italy
Website	Website
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Zoological department
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2021-07-10

Latest document update	2021-07-10 04:36:36
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Description

La Specola Museum of Zoology and Natural History, located at Via Romana, 17, 50125 Firenze FI, ItalyOpened: , in Florence, Italy , was founded in 1775, opened for public in 1775.

Taxidermy specimens

La Specola Museum of Zoology and Natural History has in its collection 1 elephantine museum specimens with records in this database:

(Measurements of teeth and body parts follow the system described by Maglio (1973; P = plate number, L = length, W = width, H = height, LF = lamellar frequency)

Hansken Accession nr: MZUF-734. Received: 1774-00-00 ♀ Hansken
Species: Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
* Born 1630 at Sri Lanka unspecified location † Dead 1655-11-09 at Cornelis Jacobs van Groenevelt
Death: unknown Death reason: unknown (N/A)

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Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). La Specola Museum of Zoology and Natural History, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=2984. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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