Occurrence dataset Registered October 09, 2024
RBINS Amphibian collection
Published by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
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).
Geographic scope
- Description
Worldwide
- Bounding box
- Latitude
- From -90 to 90
- Longitude
- From -180 to 180
Temporal scope
- verbatim
- Since 1858
Taxonomic scope
- Coverage
- Amphibia
AnuraCaudataGymnophiona
Metrics
Contacts
- Organization
- Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
- Position
- Curator
- Address
- Vautierstraat 29
- Roles
- Originator
Administrative point of contact
- Organization
- Belgian Biodiversity Platform
- Position
- Biodiversity Data Officer
- Roles
- Metadata author
- User ID
- Organization
- Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
- Position
- Head of Scientific Heritage
- Address
- Vautierstraat 29
- Roles
- Administrative point of contact
- User ID
- Organization
- Royal Museum for Central Africa
- Position
- Database manager
- Roles
- Administrative point of contact
- User ID
- Organization
- Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
- Position
- Data manager
- Roles
- Administrative point of contact
- User ID
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- October 09, 2024
- Metadata last modified
- March 13, 2025
- Publication date
- March 13, 2025
- Hosted by
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
- Installation
- RBINS IPT
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- EML
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15468/crpkfp
- Alternative identifiers
Citation
Pauwels O (2025): RBINS Amphibian collection. v1.1. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=be_rbins_vertebrates_amphibia&v=1.1 https://doi.org/10.15468/crpkfp accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-08-06.