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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
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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 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
Annelida [WoRMS]
Arthropoda [WoRMS]
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
Heliozoa [WoRMS]
Mollusca [WoRMS]
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
Samyn, Yves
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: 2018-07-20
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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