Parasitology

Parasitology

The collection contains 450 species of helminths under 290 accession numbers, of which 280 species of flukes, 100 species of tapeworms, 60 species of nematodes and 11 roundworms.

The majority is stored in the form of microscopic preparations, of which there are over 17,000, and there are over 10,000 alcoholic preparations of helminths.

The collection houses the type specimens of two species new to science. Of the listed species, 150 were detected in the Czech Republic for the first time. The only comparable collection in the Czech Republic is at the Institute of Parasitology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in České Budějovice.

Collection items are collected from 1962 to the present day from the territory of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.The collection also contains flukes that were collected in Cuba during research in 1966-1967 by the professor of Charles University in Prague, RNDr. Bohumil Ryšavý, DrSc.

From the materials stored in the collection, more than 80 original scientific papers have been published in English in parasitological journals published in England, Germany, Poland, Austria, Slovakia and the USA.

The collection is stored in the building of the Ornithological Station.

The collection is managed by RNDr. Jiljí Sitko, CSc.