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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Mollusca Collection (Mollusca) [Weekdierencollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen] Citation Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Mollusca collection. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/5991 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Notes: In this dataset the records without coordinates (or any location identifier) have been filtered out. Those records will not be found in EMODnet Biology, EurOBIS and OBIS. The original datasets with all the records can be accessed in http://ipt.naturalsciences.be/ Description The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Mollusca collection contains 55526 digitised specimens over 1702 taxa (mostly species). This dataset only contains the marine species of the collection. The following classes are included: Articulata Huxley, 1869, Bivalvia, Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758, Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1797, Gastropoda Cuvier, 1797, Heliozoa, Hydrozoa Owen, 1843, Insecta Linnaeus, 1758, Malacostraca Latreille, 1802, Maxillopoda Dahl, 1956, Monoplacophora, Polychaeta, Polyplacophora Gray, 1821, Scaphopoda Bronn, 1862. 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, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Molluscan fauna, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans, Annelida, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, Heliozoa, Mollusca Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -178,476; MinLat: -78,1586 - MaxLong: 178,9167; MaxLat: 85 [WGS84] World Oceans [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 1763 - 15 January 2017 Taxonomic coverage Parameters Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Data collections Depth (spatial coordinate) maximum relative to water surface in the water body [BODC] Depth (spatial coordinate) minimum relative to water surface in the water body [BODC] 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] Length of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Contributor Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (IRScNB/KBIN), more, data creator Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Data collection Release date: 2020-05-18 Metadatarecord created: 2018-07-20 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 | ||||
