{"id":6383,"date":"2026-07-24T12:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:01:34","slug":"the-herpetological-collection-of-the-regional-natural-history-museum-plovdiv-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/2026\/07\/24\/the-herpetological-collection-of-the-regional-natural-history-museum-plovdiv-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Herpetological Collection of the Regional Natural History Museum \u2013 Plovdiv (Bulgaria)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Herpetological Collection of the<\/em> <em>Regional Natural History Museum \u2013 Plovdiv (Bulgaria)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sinem<\/strong> <strong>S<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong>Mehmedali<\/strong><strong><sup>1*<\/sup><\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>Teodor<\/strong> <strong>D<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong>Chetalbashev<\/strong><strong><sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><strong>,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Ivelin<\/strong> <strong>A<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong>Mollov<\/strong><strong><sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1- Regional Natural History Museum \u2013 Plovdiv, Hristo G. Danov Str. 34, BG-4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2 \u2013 University of Plovdiv \u201cPaisii Hilendarski\u201d, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, 24 Tzar Assen Str., BG-4000 Plovdiv, BULGARIA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* &#8211; Corresponding author: <a href=\"mailto:sinemehmedali@gmail.com\">sinemehmedali@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-5395-5827\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-5395-5827<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract. <\/strong>The herpetological collection of the Regional Natural History Museum of Plovdiv dates from 1960 till now (2025). A total of 61 species with 362 specimens of amphibians and reptiles, belonging to 17 families, were collected and inventoried. An updated list of all species and specimens with their collection data is provided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>Amphibia, biodiversity, herpetology, Reptilia, taxonomy, wet preparations<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.65437\/bnhmp.11.1.1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.65437\/bnhmp.11.1.1\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bnhmp-26101_06082026-1.pdf\">Full text PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rnhm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}