OCCURRENCE

RBINS Amphibian collection

Latest version published by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences on 9 October 2024 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
The RBINS amphibian collection contains more than 135,000 specimens. We have type material for 109 species. The majority of the specimens were collected by herpetologist Gaston François de Witte on his missions to the national parks in Congo (between 1933 and 1958). On many more recent missions over the years herpetologist Philippe Kok has amassed a beautiful and valuable collection of amphibians, containing species from Guyana (South America).
Publication date:
9 October 2024
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 21,227 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    21227
  • ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
    71239

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Pauwels O (2024): RBINS Amphibian collection. v1.0. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=be_rbins_vertebrates_amphibia&v=1.0

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6d27080f-ed47-48e2-90e8-cdebaba11a03.  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Keywords

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

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Olivier Pauwels
Curator
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Olivier Pauwels
Curator
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE

Who filled in the metadata:

Stijn Cooleman
Biodiversity Data Officer
Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE

Who else was associated with the resource:

Patrick Semal
Head of Scientific Heritage
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
1000 Brussels
BE
Franck Theeten
Database manager
Royal Museum for Central Africa
BE
Thomas Vandenberghe
Data manager
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
BE

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class  Amphibia
Order  Anura,  Caudata,  Gymnophiona

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period Since 1858