Janet Beccaloni

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Janet "Jan" Beccaloni (born December 26, 1966 ) is a British arachnologist and curator of the collections of arachnids , millipedes , tardigrades and colobus at the Natural History Museum in London.

education and profession

Janet Beccaloni worked as a microbiologist at Thames Water from 1986 to 1990 . Subsequently, until 1997, she was the curator of the Natural History Museum's collections of beak peas and caddis flies . Since 1997 she has been the curator for arachnids, millipedes, tardigrades and colobus and is responsible for a collection of more than 3 million specimens. During her work for the Natural History Museum, she completed a bachelor's degree at the Open University from 1990 to 1997 . From 1999 to 2000 she studied museum science at University College London and received a master’s degree.

research

Janet Beccaloni researches the preservation of biological preparations in alcohol and other preservation liquids, in particular to protect the DNA of the collection items.

Her duties as a curator include field studies and national and international cooperation with research institutions, museums and associations. Beccaloni is a volunteer conservation officer for the British Arachnological Society .

Initial description

Dedication names (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Anne S. Baker and Janet Beccaloni: Macronyssus macroscutatus (Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae), a new mite species from bats of the genus Nyctalus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in England . In: Systematic and Applied Acarology 2006, Volume 11, No. 2, pp. 167-174, doi : 10.11158 / saa.11.2.4 .
  • Janet Beccaloni: Arachnids . University of California Press, Berkeley 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-26140-2 .
  • Janet Beccaloni: The Arachnida and Myriapoda collections at the Natural History Museum, past and present . In: Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 2012, Volume 15, No. 9, pp. 303-312, doi : 10.13156 / arac.2012.15.9.303 .
  • Janet Beccaloni: The curation of Arachnida collections in alcohol: An international survey. In: Collection Forum 2016, Volume 30, No. 1–2, pp. 96–110, doi : 10.14351 / 0831-4985-30.1.96 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mrs. Jan Beccaloni , Natural History Museum website, accessed December 11, 2017.
  2. ^ Anne S. Baker and Janet Beccaloni: Macronyssus macroscutatus (Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae) (...) .
  3. ↑ František Kovařík: A review of the genus Heterometrus Ehrenberg, 1828, with descriptions of seven new species (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae). In: Euscorpius , 2004, No. 15, pp. 1-60, online PDFhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.science.marshall.edu%2Ffet%2Feuscorpius%2Fp2004_15.pdf~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3DOnline% 20PDF ~ PUR% 3D , 6.3 MB.
  4. ↑ Mustafa Ünal and George W. Beccaloni: Revision of the Madagascan genera Oncodopus Brongniart and Colossopus Saussure (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae; Euconchophorini), with description of Malagasopus gen. Nov. In: Zootaxa 2017, Volume 4341, No. 2, pp. 192–228, doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4341.2.2 .
personal data
SURNAME Beccaloni, Janet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beccaloni, Jan (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British arachnologist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1966