Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Cnidaria 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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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Abstract

The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Cnidaria collection contains 5758 digitised specimens of 1039 taxa. The following classes are included: Hydrozoa Owen, 1843, Scyphozoa

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

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

Taxonomic coverage

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Croatia, Denmark, Djibouti, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Spain, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara
Coordinates: 78°9'32.4''S and 79°34'48''N Latitude; 154°24'0''W and 178°1'8.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 01 January 1821 - 01 January 1992

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Cnidaria 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_cnidaria
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