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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Belgian Marine Invertebrates Collection (belgianmarineinvertebrates) [Belgische mariene invertebratencollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen]
Citation
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Belgian Marine Invertebrates collection. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/5980
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Belgian Marine Invertebrates collection contains 135 digitised specimens over 14 taxa (mostly species). This dataset only contains the marine species of the collection. The following classes are included: Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758, Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1797, Gastropoda Cuvier, 1797, Polyplacophora Gray, 1821.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biological collections, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Polyplacophora
Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,45; MinLat: 50,75 - MaxLong: 4,5; MaxLat: 55,2 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1800 - 8 August 2015
Taxonomic coverage
Bivalvia [WoRMS]
Cephalopoda [WoRMS]
Gastropoda [WoRMS]
Polyplacophora [WoRMS]
Parameters
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Data collections
Depth (spatial coordinate) relative to water surface in the water body [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Contributor
Samyn, Yves, data creator
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information:
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Release date: 2020-03-06
Metadatarecord created: 2018-07-19
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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