Description
The RBINS amphibian collection contains more than 135,000 specimens. We have type material for 109 species. The majority of the specimens were collected by herpetologist Gaston-François de Witte on his missions to the national parks in Congo (between 1933 and 1958). On many more recent missions over the years herpetologist Philippe Kok has amassed a beautiful and valuable collection of amphibians, containing species from Guyana (South America).
- Taxonomic description
- Amphibia
- Geographic description
- Worldwide (especially Afrotropical and Neotropical)
- Temporal description
- No information
- Code
- VER-AMP
- Number of specimens in collection
- 141,000
- Online Catalog/Database
- Homepage
- Accession status
- Institutional
Collection descriptors
Collection descriptors allows a collection to be described in more detail. This can be useful for collections that are not yet digitized or for collections that have specific characteristics that are not covered by the standard collection metadata.
Contacts
- Country
- Belgium
- City/Town
- Brussels
- Postal/Zip Code
- 1000
- Address
- Vautier Street 29
OP
Olivier Pauwels
Curator of Recent Vertebrate Collections
Identifiers
- Code
- VER-AMP
- Identifiers
- Identifier used by GBIF66086cb4-eeb7-4cff-b85f-463a56401dbb
Entry created: June 30, 2023
Last modified: August 08, 2024
Modified by: scooleman