African fish collection of the Africamuseum

With 1 million specimens, our collection is the largest collection of African fresh and brackish water fish in the world. It contains the type material of one third of all described African species. It also contains the largest collection of type specimens from Lakes Kivu and Tanganyika, which has continuously grown since the museum's creation. To date, half of the collection is databased and the dataset contains approximately 90,000 records/lots representing more than half a million physical specimens.

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Data and Resources

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Additional Info

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Source http://www.gbif.org/dataset/9cfa6cb6-5833-44b2-97f1-18a3c12fed47
Last Updated August 20, 2024, 13:25 (UTC)
Created August 20, 2024, 13:25 (UTC)
Dataset type OCCURRENCE
Source DarwinCore Archive https://biocase.africamuseum.be/ipt_rmca/archive.do?r=rmca_ichthyo
Dataset website https://darwinweb.africamuseum.be/
GBIF UUID 9cfa6cb6-5833-44b2-97f1-18a3c12fed47
Administrative contact Jos Snoeks - Chief scientist, head of Vertebrate service - jos.snoeks@africamuseum.be
Metadata author Franck Theeten - Database project manager - franck.theeten@africamuseum.be