OCCURRENCE

RBINS Crustacea collection

Latest version published by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences on 4 October 2023 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
The RBINS has a rich collection of crustaceans. Within the class Malacostraca, we have large collections of decapods (crabs, shrimps, etc.), Euphausiacea (krill), Amphipoda (including eye-catching material from Antarctica), Cumacea (hooded shrimps), Isopoda, Mysida (opossum shrimps), and Tanaidae. Within the class Maxillopoda, our collection of copepods can safely be called impressive, with material from all over the world. The same is true of the class Ostracoda (seed shrimps), which has important freshwater and marine collections. Also the Branchiopoda (fairy shrimps, water fleas, etc.) are part of RBINS Recent Invertebrates collection. In total, the RBINS holds more than 210,000 crustacean specimens, including a 7800-some types.
Publication date:
4 October 2023
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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  • Occurrence (core)
    56511
  • ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
    190835

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Keywords

natural history collection; RBINS; DaRWIN; Crustacea; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Yves Samyn
Curator
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences - Department of Scientific Heritage Service
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE

Who filled in the metadata:

Thomas Vandenberghe
Data manager
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE
Stijn Cooleman
Biodiversity Data Officer
Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
Franck Theeten

Who else was associated with the resource:

Content Provider
Patrick Semal
Head of Scientific Heritage
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE
Custodian Steward
Jean-Marc Herpers
Curator of digital data
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Brussels
BE

Geographic 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

Bounding Coordinates South West [-78.159, -175], North East [82.433, 178.524]

Taxonomic Coverage

Crustacea

Class  Malacostraca,  Copepoda,  Ostracoda,  Branchiopoda,  Maxillopoda

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1867-01-01 / 2018-09-08

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers db2cd6fc-a7d5-43ad-b944-8a663d57ae73
https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=be_rbins_invertebrates_crustacea