The RBINS fish collection consists of more than 265,000 specimens. Oceanographer Gustave Gilson (director of the RBINS in 1909) started the collection during his study of the...

The RBINS bird collection is made up of around 132,000 specimens. It includes a significant collection of skeletons and eggs as well as type material for 123 species. It is one...

The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Belgian Marine Invertebrates collection contains 130 digitised specimens of 21 taxa. The following classes are included: Bivalvia...

The RBINS holds a very important collection of Cnidaria. Dr. E. Leloup from the RBINS and Prof. Dr. Bouillon from the Université Libre de Bruxelles collected non-Siphonophoran...

The RBINS has specimens of three species of horseshoe crab. The sea spiders in our collection come mainly from Antarctica.

Within the RBINS collection of Belgian Recent Invertebrates, most of the approximately 1 million specimens are molluscs. A large proportion of this material comes from former...

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...

The RBINS is known for its rich echinoderm collections. The Institute has a particularly rich collection of sea cucumbers, with material from all over the world and many type...

The RBINS has an important, world-renowned collection, containing Belgian species as well as species from more exotic locations, such as Southeast Asia.

The RBINS has a rich collection of crustaceans. Within the class Malacostraca, we have large collections of decapods (crabs, shrimps, etc.), Euphausiacea (krill), Amphipoda...

The RBINS has important material from the North Sea, including historical collections and recent material, as well as material from freshwater habitats. A lot of material was...

"BIOGEOnet: Bryophytes occurrences in Wallonia" is a dataset that includes data on the distribution of mosses, anthoceroses and liverworts mapped in the IFBL grid system (4km x...

Inventory of the terrestrial isopods in Belgium (2011-2020) is an occurrence dataset published by Spinicornis (Terrestrial Isopod Research Group of Belgium), the Research...

This dataset describes the occurrences of 19 species of macroalgae along standardized transects in the Bay of Calvi (Corsica). This dataset was based on 2 different campaigns...

Butterfly monitoring scheme in Flanders, Belgium is a sampling event dataset published by the Research Institute of Nature and Forest (INBO). This dataset contains transect data...

This camera trap dataset is derived from the Agouti project MICA - Management of Invasive Coypu and muskrAt in Europe. Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the...

MICA - Muskrat occurrences collected by VMM in Flanders, Belgium is an occurrence dataset published by the Flanders Environment Agency (VMM). It is part of the LIFE project...

The checklist of alien herpetofauna of Belgium is a species checklist dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains information on alien...

The Checklist of alien species in the Scheldt estuary in Flanders, Belgium is a species checklist dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It...

Between 2006 and 2012 the ectomycorrhizal Fungi of Meise Botanic Garden were surveyed by monitoring species rich sites. By recording the precise location of the fruiting bodies...