I campioni dello zoologo Daniele Rosa nel Museo di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata dell’Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

The project “The causes of evolution”, carried out at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and aimed at the digitization of the specimens and the scientific production of the zoologist Daniele Rosa, included a survey of the historical collections of the Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy looking for oligochaete samples collected by the zoologist Daniele Rosa and deposited at the Museum. The survey allowed the identification of 19 samples of the oligochaetes studied by Daniele Rosa still carrying the original labelling handwritten by Rosa. Among samples, we find specimens of the species Allolobophora cuginii, that Rosa described in 1905 for the first time and that represent the holotype of that species. We also find specimens of the species Allolobophora minuscula, that could represent a second Rosa’s holotype, but the absence of inventory date and number makes this attribution at present uncertain.