Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Crustacea collection

Yves Samyn1, Thomas Vandenberghe2, Patrick Semal2

1 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences  -  Department of Scientific Heritage Service, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium; 2 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

Corresponding author(s): Yves Samyn, Thomas Vandenberghe (tvandenberghe@naturalsciences.be)

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Abstract

The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Crustacea collection contains 56511 digitised specimens of 5791 taxa. The following classes are included: Arachnida, Aves, Branchiopoda Latreille, 1817, Clitellata, Gastropoda Cuvier, 1797, Hydrozoa Owen, 1843, Ichthyostraca Zrzavy et al., 1997, Insecta Linnaeus, 1758, Malacostraca Latreille, 1802, Maxillopoda Dahl, 1956, Merostomata, Ostracoda indet., Ostracoda Latreille, 1802, Polychaeta, Pycnogonida Latreille, 1810, Reptilia Laurenti, 1768, Secernentea, Sipunculidea, Turbellaria

Keywords: natural history collection, RBINS, DaRWIN, Crustacea, Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.naturalsciences.be/ipt/resource?r=be_rbins_invertebrates_crustacea

Taxonomic coverage

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Algeria, Angola, Antarctica, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Djibouti, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Latvia, Liberia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, St Vincent and Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Coordinates: 78°9'32.4''S and 82°25'58.8''N Latitude; 175°0'0''W and 178°31'26.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 01 January 1867 - 08 September 2018

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Crustacea collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.naturalsciences.be/ipt/archive.do?r=be_rbins_invertebrates_crustacea
Publication date of data: 2021-01-25
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-11-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset