RBINS Reptile collection

Olivier Pauwels

doi:10.15468/5y77yc

RBINS Reptile collection

Citation

Pauwels O, Vandenberghe T, Cooleman S, Theeten F (2024). RBINS Reptile collection. Version 1.8. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/5y77yc accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.

Description

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.

Taxonomic Coverages

Reptilia

Squamata
common name: Lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards) rank: order
Testudines
common name: Turtles rank: order
Crocodylia
common name: Crocodilians rank: order
Sphenodontia
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Olivier Pauwels
originator
position: Curator
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences - Department of Scientific Heritage Service
Vautierstraat 29
Brussels
1000
BE

Thomas Vandenberghe
metadata author
position: Data manager
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
Brussels
1000
BE
email: tvandenberghe@naturalsciences.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9269-6548

Stijn Cooleman
metadata author
position: Biodiversity Data Officer
Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
email: s.cooleman@biodiversity.be
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3029-0451

Franck Theeten
metadata author
position: Database manager
Royal Museum for Central Africa
BE
email: franck.theeten@africamuseum.be
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0626-538X

Patrick Semal
content provider
position: Head of Section Scientific Heritage
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
Brussels
1000
BE
email: psemal@naturalsciences.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4048-7728

Jean-Marc Herpers
custodian steward
position: Curator of digital data
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Brussels
BE
email: jmherpers@naturalsciences.be

administrative point of contact
Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Vautierstraat 29
Brussels
1000
BE
email: info@bedic.be