Ghent  University - Zoology Museum - Insect collection

Dominick Verschelde1, Dimitri Brosens2

1 Ugent, Ghent, Belgium; 2 INBO/ Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Kliniekstraat, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

Corresponding author(s): Dominick Verschelde, Dimitri Brosens (dimitri.brosens@inbo.be)

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Abstract

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 insect collection of over 17000 specimen.
The most important collections in this dataset are: Collection De Riemaecker; Collection Felix Plateau; Collection Hostie.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=ugent-insects

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Insecta
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Insecta

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global Coverage
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1859 - 2003

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Ghent  University - Zoology Museum - Insect collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=ugent-insects
Publication date of data: 2019-03-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-08-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset