Description
The extensive African Rodentia specimen and tissue collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) and the University of Antwerp (UA) provide taxonomical, ecological, geographical and genetic information, as well as measurements and data on parasitic and viral infections. The scientific importance of these collections is that, although numerous African rats and mice have been described over the last 150 years, many species descriptions are based on very few specimens.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 93,270 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Belgian Biodiversity Platform. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 09baff40-d4a3-11dc-8719-b8a03c50a862. Belgian Biodiversity Platform publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Biological collection and data management
- Metadata Provider
- IT Expert
- Point Of Contact
- Biological collection and data management
- Leuvensesteenweg 13
- Point Of Contact
- Senior Staff Scientist
- Rue Vautier 29
- Point Of Contact
- N/A
- Rue Vautier 29
- User
Geographic Coverage
Africa
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-39.096, -21.094], North East [38.823, 54.492] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 09baff40-d4a3-11dc-8719-b8a03c50a862 |
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| https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=african_rodentia |