Description
The Ghent University Zoological museum holds a scientific collection of vertebrate and invertebrate specimens and a collection of anatomic preparates. The museum dates from 1817 and the original idea was to curate a didactic collection for educational purposes. Ghent University Zoology Museum curates a vertebrate collection of over 6000 specimen. the vertebrate collection is divided in a "Comparative anatomy collection" of about 2000 specimen. A valuable historic collection of Professor Felix. Plateau and several smaller historic collection. Some specimens were bought or donated by the Antwerp Zoo. Some of the specimens belonged to animals living in the Ghent zoo which closed in 1905
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 6,580 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.
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ghent University. 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: 0310b080-ec4b-11dc-b73e-b8a03c50a862. Ghent University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Museum
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Geographic Coverage
Global coverage!
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Vertebrates collection of Ugent!
Subphylum | Vertebrata |
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Collection Data
Collection Name | Museum voor dierkunde - Vertebraten collectie |
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Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Dried, Mounted, Formalin |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | 0310b080-ec4b-11dc-b73e-b8a03c50a862 |
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https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=ugent-vertebrates |