African Rodentia

Wim Wendelen1, Nicolas Noé2, Nicolas Noe3

1 Royal Museum For Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080, Tervuren, Belgium; 2 Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Avenue Louise231, 1050, Bruxelles, Belgium; 3 

Corresponding author(s): Wim Wendelen (wim.wendelen@africamuseum.be), Nicolas Noé (n.noe@biodiversity.be)

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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=african_rodentia

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Africa
Coordinates: 39°5'45.47''S and 38°49'21.33''N Latitude; 21°5'37.5''W and 54°29'31.88''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive African Rodentia
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=african_rodentia
Publication date of data: 2017-02-22
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2017-02-22
Hierarchy level: Dataset