African fish collection of the Africamuseum

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Description

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.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 93,106 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Snoeks J, Theeten F (2025). African fish collection of the Africamuseum. Version 1.27. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium. Occurrence dataset. https://biocase.africamuseum.be/ipt_rmca/resource?r=rmca_ichthyo&v=1.27

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9cfa6cb6-5833-44b2-97f1-18a3c12fed47. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.