Document of dataset 5991

Dataset record

Type
Dataset
title in English
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Mollusca Collection (Mollusca)
title in nl
Weekdierencollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen
Abstract in English
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.
Contactpoint
Email
info@bedic.be
License
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html
bibliographicCitation
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Mollusca collection

Temporal coverage

Temporal
Start date
1763-01-01
End date
2017-01-15

Geographical coverage

Spatial
World Oceans

Thesaurus terms

Keyword
Molluscan fauna

Themes

theme
Biology > Invertebrates

Taxonomic terms

Taxon keywords
Annelida
Arthropoda
Echinodermata
Heliozoa
Mollusca

Ownerships

creator
Yves Samyn
creator
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen

Dataset references

record
European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Special collections

part of special collection
available through EurOBIS
EMODNET

Document metadata

date created
2018-07-20
date modified
2020-04-30