Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series Vol. 189 (2020), ISSN 1802-6842 (print), 1802-6850 (electronic) DOI: 10.37520/jnmpnhs.2020.007 Původní práce / Original paper Type specimens of Birds in the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Torino, Italy) Giorgio Aimassi1,*, Claudio Pulcher2 & Luca Ghiraldi3 1 Museo Civico «F. Eusebio», Via Paruzza 1, I-12051 Alba, Italy; email:
[email protected] 2 Gruppo Piemontese Studi Ornitologici – Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Via S. Francesco di Sales 188, I-10022 Carmagnola, Italy 3 Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Via Giolitti 36, I-10123 Torino, Italy * corresponding author Aimassi G., Pulcher C. & Ghiraldi L., 2020: Type specimens of Birds in the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (Torino, Italy). – Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 189: 65–154. Abstract: Since the 1990s, the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino houses the ornithological collection formerly belonging to the Zoological Museum of the University of Turin (MZUT). This collection includes about 20,500 specimens, mostly dating from the second half of the nineteenth century or early twentieth. The high number of type-specimens gives it great historical and scientific significance. The types have been described mainly by Tommaso Salvadori (171 taxa, 282 specimens) and, to a lesser extent, by other Italian authors such as Enrico Festa, Filippo de Filippi, Orazio Antinori, Enrico H. Giglioli or by foreign authors as John Gould, Eduard Rüppell, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Philip