The RBINS holds more 45,000 reptilian specimens, and type material for 183 species. The majority of the specimens were collected by Gaston-François de Witte during his missions to the national parks in Congo. Philippe Kok has also put together a fine collection of reptiles from Guyana. Biologist Olivier Pauwels has added material to the South East Asia and Gabon collections, and his colleagues Benoit Mys, J. Swerts and Jan Hulselmans have contributed a significant collection of reptile species from Papua New Guinea.
Published: March 13, 2025 at 14:38
URL: https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=be_rbins_vertebrates_reptilia
Olivier Pauwels
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
Thomas Vandenberghe
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Stijn Cooleman
Belgian Biodiversity Platform
Franck Theeten
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Patrick Semal
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Jean-Marc Herpers
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
| Field | Missing | Invalid | |
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| coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | 17,280 |
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| decimalLatitude | 17,031 |
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| decimalLongitude | 17,031 |
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| eventDate | 4,647 |
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| maximumDepthInMeters | 25,637 |
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| minimumDepthInMeters | 25,637 |
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| scientificNameID | 24,760 |
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
| Flag | Dropped | Records | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NO_DEPTH | 25,637 |
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| NO_MATCH | 23,287 |
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| NO_COORD | 17,031 |
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| ON_LAND | 7,814 |
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| WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT | 3,131 |
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| MARINE_UNSURE | 1,276 |
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| NOT_MARINE | 567 |
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| WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE | 61 |
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| NO_ACCEPTED_NAME | 2 |
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