The Tunicata collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg which combines all collections held at the Senckenberg Natutal History Museum of Frankfurt. It contains Tunicata from all over the world and includes the type material of 40 primary types; especially important is the reference material related to the works of Gottschaldt (1898), Hartmeyer (1903, 1911, 1912), and Sluiter (1913 & 1932).

The Pantopoda collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg which combines all collections held at the Senckenberg Natutal History Museum of Frankfurt.

The Cnidaria collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg which combines all collections held at the Senckenberg Natutal History Museum of Frankfurt. This collection contains Cnidaria from all over the world.

The Bryozoa collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg which combines all collections held at the Senckenberg Natutal History Museum of Frankfurt. This collection contains Bryozoa from all over the world.

The Echinodermata collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg which combines all collections held at the Senckenberg Natutal History Museum of Frankfurt. This collection contains Echinodermata from all over the world.

This dataset contains data from the Ichthyologie collection from the Zoological Museum of the CAU University Kiel.

The Tardigrada collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg which combines all collections held at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum of Frankfurt.

The Polychaetes collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg which combines all collections held at the Senckenberg Natutal History Museum of Frankfurt. This collection contains Polychaetes from all over the world.

The Xiphosura collection is part of the SeSAM collections of Senckenberg which combines all collections held at the Senckenberg Natutal History Museum of Frankfurt.

The aim is to provide a general view of the echinoderm collection of the Paris Museum, which is primarily a scientific collection. The naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, one of the founders of the Theory of Evolution, was the first to really establish the collection of echinoderms at the Paris Museum. There are both dry and alcohol-preserved lots. Some sea cucumber specimens are preserved as microscopic preparations on slides. The number of lots is estimated at 500,000, of which 0.4% are types. Echinoderms have been collected in all oceans, at all latitudes. The largest numbers of specimens were collected relatively recently in the Indo-West Pacific.