RBINS Crustacea collection

Yves Samyn1, Thomas Vandenberghe2, Stijn Cooleman3, Franck Theeten4, Patrick Semal2, Jean-Marc Herpers5

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; 3 Belgian Biodiversity Platform, , Belgium; 4 Royal Museum for Central Africa, , Belgium; 5 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Corresponding author(s): Yves Samyn, Thomas Vandenberghe (tvandenberghe@naturalsciences.be), Stijn Cooleman (s.cooleman@biodiversity.be), Franck Theeten (franck.theeten@africamuseum.be)

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Abstract

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.

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

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Crustacea
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Malacostraca, Copepoda, Ostracoda, Branchiopoda, Maxillopoda

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: January 1, 1867 - September 8, 2018

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive RBINS Crustacea collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/archive.do?r=be_rbins_invertebrates_crustacea
Publication date of data: 2023-10-04
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