Description
Gabon Biodiversity Collection is the largest zoological reference collection known in Central Africa. It consist of 123000 specimen including Mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, plants and mainly arthropods. The collection of amphibian actually has over 500 specimen. Amphibian are under studied and our hope is to foster more research in the region by making available what is already available as information.
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 474 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Gabon Biodiversity Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has not been registered with GBIF
Keywords
Occurrence
Contacts
- User
- Assistant Curator
- BP 48
- +24101559004
- User
Geographic Coverage
Amphibian were collected in the Gamba Complex of Protected Area including two national parks, Longa and Moukalaba Doudou. It also covers the Ogooue-River boundaries, the Plateaux Batekes and the north of Libreville.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-2.636, 9.624], North East [0.198, 13.843] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=gbc-a |
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