Studies on the Doderlein collection of Japanese specimens

[1]Doderlein收藏的标本总数超过3,078件，属于原生动物和9个动物门，其中2,336件标本保存在斯特拉斯堡动物博物馆，139件保存在柏林洪堡大学自然博物馆，603件保存在德国慕尼黑动物园。文恩自然历史博物馆中的鱼类和多孔鱼，以及这些机构中的昆虫、鸟类和其他一些动物群体，仍未为未来的研究而研究；[2]包括有孔虫11个标本(含11个模式标本)、多孔虫295个标本(73个模式)、棘皮动物43个(1个模式)、软体动物头足纲157个(89个模式)、其他软体动物200多个、环节动物5个(1个模式)、节肢动物1113多个(模式)、苔藓动物253个(未定名)、腕足类8个(无模式)、棘皮动物654个以上(77个模式)、脊索动物子囊类36个(6个模式)、两栖类259个(63个模式)、节肢动物44个(无模式)；[3]上述模式标本共857个，代表约320种或亚种。我们对模式标本的一些分类结果已公布如下，但仍有许多工作要做。标本清单已以英文小册子的形式出版，名为《路德维希·多德莱恩教授1880-81年制作并存放在几个欧洲博物馆的日本动物收藏的初步分类和历史研究》。这份名单肯定对未来对该藏品的多学科研究非常有帮助。

[1] The Doderlein collection consists of more than 3,078 specimens in total, belonging to the Protozoa and 9 phyla of Animalia, more than 2,336 specimens of which have been housed at the Musee Zoologique Strasbourg, 139 ones at the Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, and more than 603 at Zoologische Staatssammlung Munchen. Fishes and polychates at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, and the insects, birds and some other animal groups at these institutions remains unstudied for future researches ;[2] The collection is composed of 11 specimens of Foraminifera (including 11 type specimens), 295 of Porifera (73 types), 43 of Cnidaria (1 type), 157 of Cephalopoda of Mollusca (89 types), more than 200 of other molluscs, 5 of Annelida (1 type), more than 1113 of Arthropoda (535 types), 253 of Bryozoa (undesignated), 8 of Brachiopoda (no types), more than 654 of Echinodermata (77 types), 36 of Ascidiacea of Chordata (6 types), 259 of Pisces (63 types), and 44 of Amphibia, Reptilia and Mammalia (no types) ; and[3] The mentioned type specimens (857 in total number) represent about 320 species or subspecies. Some of our taxonomic results on the type specimens have already been published as listed below, though much remains to be done.The list of the specimens included in the collection has been published as an English booklet entitled "Preliminary taxonomic and historical studies on Prof.Ludwig Doderlein's collection of Japanese animals made in 1880-81 and deposited at several European museums". The list must be very helpful for future multi-disciplinary studies of the collection.