Macrostomorpha taxonomy and phylogeny

Specimens represent type material, that has either been documented digitally, from which DNA samples exist and/or have been analysed, from which there are whole mount preparations, and/or from which there is material available in embedded of serially sectioned form. If some of this material has been deposited elsewhere, the specimen record includes these other catalog numbers.

The code of a specimen record consists of three parts:
- the Institution Code (e.g. MTP for Macrostomum Taxonomy and Phylogeny)
- the Collection Code (e.g. LS for Lukas Schärer, the person holding the collection)
- Catalogue Number Text (e.g. 123, or another a unique alphanumeric code, which identifies the specimen in the collection)

Each specimen record is associated with a location (including Latitude/Longitude) where the specimen was collected, and with a number of other descriptive data.