Ghent  University - Zoology Museum - Vertebrate collection

Dominick Verschelde1, Dimitri Brosens2, Dimitri Brosens3, Dimitri dimitri.brosens@inbo.be4

1 Ugent, Ghent, Belgium; 2 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform, , Belgium; 3 Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Brussels, Belgium; 4 

Corresponding author(s): Dominick Verschelde (dominick.verschelde@ugent.be)Dimitri Brosens, 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 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

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Museum

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Vertebrates collection of Ugent!
Taxonomic ranks
Subphylum: Vertebrata

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 

Natural collections description

Collection name: Museum voor dierkunde - Vertebraten collectie
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol
Specimen preservation method: Dried
Specimen preservation method: Mounted
Specimen preservation method: Formalin

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Ghent  University - Zoology Museum - Vertebrate collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=ugent-vertebrates
Publication date of data: 2021-03-25
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