RBINS metadata catalog
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Reptile collection
The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences has about 45,000 reptilian specimens, and type material for 183 species. The majority of the specimens were collected by Gaston François de Witte during his missions to the national parks in Congo. Philippe Kok has also put together a fine collection of reptiles from Guyana. Biologist Olivier Pauwels has added material to the South East Asia and Gabon collections, and his colleagues Benoit Mys, J. Swerts and Jan Hulselmans have contributed a significant collection of reptile species from Papua New Guinea.
The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Reptilia collection contains 19645 digitised specimens of 2513 taxa. The following classes are included: Amphibia Linnaeus, 1758, Reptilia Laurenti, 1768
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- 2021-01-25
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v1.5
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be_rbins_vertebrates_reptilia
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences IPT dataset identifier
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natural history collection
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RBINS
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DaRWIN
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Reptilia
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Specimen
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 1838-01-01
- End date
- 2017-12-25
- Topology level
- Geometry only
Distributor
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Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A)
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Comma-separated values (CSV) file
- OnLine resource
- The csv file and the Darwin Core Archive as found on the GBIF portal. ( http )
Distributor
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Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A)
- OnLine resource
- The Darwin Core Archive as found on the IPT of the data publisher. ( http )
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- Dataset
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The dataset has been data managed in order to be stored as Darwin Core archive: taxa were matched and columns were mapped with DarwinCore headers.
- File identifier
- rbins:dataset::be_rbins_vertebrates_reptilia XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-01-25
- Metadata standard name
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Geographic Information — Metadata Part 1: Fundamentals
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ISO 19115-1:2014(E)
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