Dataset

RBINS marine Chelicerata collection

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The RBINS has specimens of three species of horseshoe crab. The sea spiders in our collection come mainly from Antarctica.

Published: March 13, 2025 at 14:35

URL: https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=be_rbins_invertebrates_cheliceratamarine

Yves Samyn
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences - Department of Scientific Heritage Service

Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences

Stijn Cooleman
Belgian Biodiversity Platform

Franck Theeten
Royal Museum for Central Africa

461
occurrence records
1,464
measurements and facts
76
taxa
73
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 225
48.8%
decimalLatitude 225
48.8%
decimalLongitude 225
48.8%
eventDate 27
5.9%
maximumDepthInMeters 461
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 461
100.0%
scientificNameID 13
2.8%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 461
100.0%
NO_COORD 225
48.8%
ON_LAND 88
19.1%
NO_MATCH 4
0.9%

Measurement types

DNA derived data