Dataset

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

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

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
First registration
May 18, 2020 at 21:41
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=be_rbins_vertebrates_vertebratestypes
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=be_rbins_vertebrates_vertebratestypes

Contacts

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
total submitted occurrences
91
accepted occurrences
5,063
measurements and facts
30
taxa
29
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
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 Dropped 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%

Measurement types

DNA derived data