Pietro Doderlein Museum of Zoology
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Pietro Doderlein Museum of Zoology

Il "Pietro Doderlein" museum it's a museum academic di zoology di Palermo. It is the most important Sicilian zoological museum and is dedicated to the professor Peter Doderlein, who founded it in 1862.

The museum, divided into various subsections, houses over 5000 specimens, exhibited strictly in order phylogenetic, many of which belong to species now extinct in Italy and in Sicilia, such as sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), the eagle owl (vulture vulture) and the Sicilian wolf (Canis lupus cristaldii) and pure specimens of reintroduced species such as the Gallinule (porphyry porphyry) and the griffin (Gyps fulvus). It is possible to see species endemic rare, such as the Sicilian rock partridge (Alectoris graeca whitakeri), or protected like the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and many other species.

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