Ghent University - Zoology Museum - Invertebrate collection

Dominick Verschelde1, Dimitri Brosens2, Dimitri dimitri.brosens@inbo.be3

1 Ugent, Ghent, Belgium; 2 Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Kliniekstraat, 1070, Brussels, Belgium; 3 

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

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Abstract

Founded in 1817 the Zoology Museum aimed to assemble a scientific collection of preserved animals to illustrate the zoology courses given at the University of Gent. Nowadays the collection is still used and studied by university students, but on the same time the museum is made more accessible to a larger public.
Ghent University Zoology Museum curates a collection of over 7000 invertebrate specimen. This dataset holds all invertebrates in the collection, except the insects and nematodes.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

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

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Subphylum: Invertebrata

Spatial coverage

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

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Ghent University - Zoology Museum - Invertebrate collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=ugent-invertebrates
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