RBINS Reptile collection

Olivier Pauwels1, 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): Olivier Pauwels, Thomas Vandenberghe (tvandenberghe@naturalsciences.be), Stijn Cooleman (s.cooleman@biodiversity.be), Franck Theeten (franck.theeten@africamuseum.be)

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Abstract

The RBINS holds more 45,000 reptilian specimens, and type material for 183 species. The majority of the specimens were collected by Gaston-François de Witte during his missions to the national parks in Congo. Philippe Kok has also put together a fine collection of reptiles from Guyana. Biologist Olivier Pauwels has added material to the South East Asia and Gabon collections, and his colleagues Benoit Mys, J. Swerts and Jan Hulselmans have contributed a significant collection of reptile species from Papua New Guinea.

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

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Reptilia
Taxonomic ranks
Order: Squamata, Testudines, Crocodylia, Sphenodontia
Common names: Lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards), Turtles, Crocodilians

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Coordinates: 55°19'1.2''S and 55°19'58.8''N Latitude; 153°24'0''W and 179°19'1.2''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1838 - December 25, 2017

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive RBINS Reptile 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_vertebrates_reptilia
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