title: The Polish collection of parasitic helminths (a report on realization of works concerning fusion of parasitic collections dispersed among different scientific institutions).
abstract: The paper presents the results of works on preparation of a proper museum collection of parasitic helminths gathered by the Polish scientists and dispersed in various scientific institutions. The collection composed of 11 author's collections and a special collection of available typical series of species described by the Polish authors has been deposited in the Museum of Natural History of Wroclaw University. It includes almost 16.000 slides with 90 taxons of Monogenea, 251 Trematoda, 144 Cestoda, 43 Nematoda, 11 Acanthocephala, in total 486 nominal species and 53 taxons of genus level. Among them 12 species appear new for fauna of Poland; for 57 species new hosts in Polish territory have been recorded; two new species of Cestoda have been described in separate publications. A special paragraph contains a checklist of all species described by the Polish scientists with information whether they are available in any other collection. Detailed information about every deposited slide is given in the Database available online at http://www.helminths.eu .
authors.affiliation: W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 51/55 Twarda Street, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pojmańska
authors.affiliation: Department of General Biology and Parasitology, Medical University of Warsaw, 5 Chałubińskiego Street, 02-004 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Rusłan
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5982-8406
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Salamatin
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), 8 Ciszewskiego Street, 02-786 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sulgostowska
authors.affiliation: Department of General Biology and Parasitology, Medical University of Warsaw, 5 Chałubińskiego Street, 02-004 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Danuta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cielecka
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wrocław, 63/77 Przybyszewskiego Street, 71-148 Wrocław, Poland.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Okulewicz
authors.affiliation: W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 51/55 Twarda Street, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Niewiadomska
authors.affiliation: Department of General Biology and Parasitology, Medical University of Warsaw, 5 Chałubińskiego Street, 02-004 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Grytner-Zięcina
keywords: Poland; museum collection; parasitic helminths