Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Echinodermata 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 Echinodermata collection contains 4297 digitised specimens of 1089 taxa. The following classes are included: Asteroidea de Blainville, 1830, Crinoidea, Echinoidea Leske, 1778, Holothuroidea De Blainville, 1834, Ophiuroidea Gray, 1840

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

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

Taxonomic coverage

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Croatia, Cyprus, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, France, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Haiti, Hong Kong, SAR China, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Spain, St Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara
Coordinates: 78°9'32.4''S and 70°14'16.8''N Latitude; 149°37'1.2''W and 179°48'7.2''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 01 January 1827 - 08 September 2018

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Echinodermata 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_echinodermata
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