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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Vertebrates/Types Collection (vertebratestypes) [Vertebraten typecollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen]
Citation
Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Vertebrates/Types collection. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/5995
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License 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 Vertebrates/Types collection contains 283 digitised specimens over 70 taxa (mostly species). This dataset only contains the marine species of the collection. The following classes are included: Actinopterygii, Aves, Chondrichtyes, Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758.
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 > Birds, Biology > Fish, Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans, Actinopterygii, Aves, Chondrichthyes, Mammalia
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -179,9667; MinLat: -78,1586 - MaxLong: 167,4833; MaxLat: 63,4833 [WGS84]
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
11 May 1800 - 16 November 1989
Taxonomic coverage
Actinopterygii [WoRMS]
Aves [WoRMS]
Chondrichthyes [WoRMS]
Mammalia [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
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (IRScNB/KBIN), more, data creator
Pauwels, Olivier
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Release date: 2020-05-18
Metadatarecord created: 2018-07-23
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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