RBINS Crustacea collection

Yves Samyn

doi:10.15468/xtppux

RBINS Crustacea collection

Citation

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences: RBINS Crustacea collection https://doi.org/10.15468/xtppux accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-18.

Description

The RBINS has a rich collection of crustaceans. Within the class Malacostraca, we have large collections of decapods (crabs, shrimps, etc.), Euphausiacea (krill), Amphipoda (including eye-catching material from Antarctica), Cumacea (hooded shrimps), Isopoda, Mysida (opossum shrimps), and Tanaidae. Within the class Maxillopoda, our collection of copepods can safely be called impressive, with material from all over the world. The same is true of the class Ostracoda (seed shrimps), which has important freshwater and marine collections. Also the Branchiopoda (fairy shrimps, water fleas, etc.) are part of RBINS Recent Invertebrates collection. In total, the RBINS holds more than 210,000 crustacean specimens, including a 7800-some types.

Taxonomic Coverages

Crustacea

Malacostraca
rank: class
Copepoda
rank: class
Ostracoda
rank: class
Branchiopoda
rank: class
Maxillopoda
rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Algeria, Angola, Antarctica, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Djibouti, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Latvia, Liberia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, St Vincent and Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Yves Samyn
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 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

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