Our Collection

Herpeto-faunal Collection:

The collection of herpetofauna includes a wide range of amphibians – toads, frogs, salamanders, newts and caecilians, and reptiles – snakes, lizards, crocodiles, tortoises, and turtles.

Fish Collection: 

The museum also maintains a variety of fish specimens as fluid-preserved, resin blocks and stuffed. The range of specimens includes those found in fresh, brackish, and salt waters.

Avian Collection:

The avian collection consists of skins, stuffed specimens, and bones of many bird species.

Mammal Collection:

The museum also maintains a variety fluid-preserved and stuffed mammal specimen along with full skeletons of some mammals and skeletal parts (skull, limbs, and girdles).

Invertebrates:

We have a miscellaneous collection of invertebrates which includes terrestrial, freshwater, and brackish water species collected from around the country as well as from different continents.

Entomology Collection:

The Entomology section consists of a variety of insect specimens as fluid-preserved, resin blocks and dry preserved (whole specimens, appendages mounted on microscopic slides).

Histological preparation (mounted on slides):

The museum houses a collection of slides – Histology, Parasitology, and Embryology, etc. Single-celled to multicellular organisms, of both invertebrates and vertebrates.

Fossil Collection:

The Fossil Collection contains over 370 fossil specimens. The collection is invertebrates and microfossils, vertebrates, plants etc.  These fossils and rock samples record the history of life on Earth over the last 3.5 billion years. The fossils collection contains specimens from different geological periods (Holocene, Pleistocene, Oligocene, Eocene, Paleocene, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, Pennsylvanian, Mississippian, Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician and Cambrian etc.)

Invertebrates:

We have a miscellaneous collection of invertebrates which includes terrestrial, freshwater, and brackish water species collected from around the country as well as from different continents.

Department of Zoology

Faculty of Applied Sciences.
University of Sri Jayewardenepura,
Gangodawila, Nugegoda,
Sri Lanka.

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