The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Vertebrates/Types collection contains 283 digitised specimens over 70 taxa (mostly species). This dataset only contains the marine species of the collection. The following classes are included: Actinopterygii, Aves, Chondrichtyes, Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758.

Citation: Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Vertebrates/Types collection

Published: June 11, 2025 at 11:46

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=be_rbins_vertebrates_vertebratestypes

Olivier Pauwels
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Thomas Vandenberghe
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen

Patrick Semal
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen

1,441

occurrence records

5,063

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	595	41.3%
decimalLatitude	586	40.7%
decimalLongitude	586	40.7%
eventDate	3	0.2%
maximumDepthInMeters	1,426	99.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,426	99.0%
scientificNameID	1,175	81.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	1,426	99.0%
NO_MATCH	1,114	77.3%
ON_LAND	797	55.3%
NO_COORD	586	40.7%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT	382	26.5%
NOT_MARINE	225	15.6%
MARINE_UNSURE	35	2.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	8	0.6%

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Vertebrates/Types Collection (vertebratestypes)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data