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Fauna Europaea

Dataset homepage

Citation

de Jong Y (2016). Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea Consortium. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ymk1bx accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-05-28.

Description

The Fauna Europaea project (EVR1-1999-20001) has been funded by the European Commission for a period of four years (1 March 2000 - 1 March 2004) within the Fifth Framework Programme (5FP). Fauna Europaea has assembled a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Species and subspecies are registered at least at the level of political countries. The Fauna Europaea geographical system follows basically the ISO 3166 and TDWG 2.0 country code with minor modifications. The covered area is the same as European mainland (Western Palearctic), plus the Macaronesian islands (excluding Cape Verde Islands), Cyprus, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, the Western Kazakhstan excluded. The geographic boundaries include: East: Ural (E 60°), West: Atlantic Ocean (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) (W 30°), South: Mediterranean (N 35°), North: Arctic Islands (N 82°)

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Yde de Jong
originator
FaEu
email: Yde De Jong <yjong@uva.nl>
Yde de Jong
metadata author
FaEu
email: Yde De Jong <yjong@uva.nl>
Yde de Jong
administrative point of contact
FaEu
email: Yde De Jong <yjong@uva.nl>
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