Description
The data in this checklist represents the Opiliones fauna of Luxembourg, it was extracted from the publication: * Muster, C & M. Meyer 2014. - Verbreitungsatlas der Weberknechte des Großherzogtums Luxemburg. Ferrantia 70, Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg, 112 p. https://ps.mnhn.lu/ferrantia/publications/Ferrantia70.pdf Abstract: The knowledge of the harvestmen fauna in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is summarized by means of a distribution atlas. This study is based on 3091 datasets (> 16.000 specimens), with the bulk of the data originating from surveys carried out by the National Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg (MNHNL) between 1988 and 2006. Historical data from 26 sampling localities and contemporary data from ca. 200 sites approximate a frequency of 70.5% of the 5x5 km grid squares of the country. To date, 31 species of harvestmen were recorded from Luxembourg, of which six have to be categorized as neobiota (Nemastoma dentigerum, Opilio canestrinii, Dicranopalpus ramosus, Leiobunum religiosum, Leiobunum sp. A and Nelima sempronii). The most abundant species were Oligolophus tridens (23.9% of total abundance), Rilaena triangularis (12.1%), Phalangium opilio (11.2%) and Opilio canestrinii (8.4%). For each species, geographic distribution, phenology and association with CORINE land cover (CLC) categories is illustrated. A summary account of zoogeography, community association and potential threat is given. Two specialized inhabitants of xerothermophilic open landscape, Lacinius horridus and Nelima silvatica, are considered at risk of extinction. The Wall Harvestman Opilio parietinus is critically endangered.
Data Records
The data in this checklist 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 31 records.
2 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.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Muster C, Meyer M (2022): Checklist of Opiliones species of Luxembourg 2014. v1.2. Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg. Dataset/Checklist. https://gbif-staging.mnhn.lu/ipt/resource?r=opiliones_luxembourg_2014&v=1.2
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 87ec676a-4f4f-4f19-b2e4-3db3bbb786fa. National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Luxembourg.
Keywords
Checklist; Inventorythematic
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Geographic Coverage
Luxembourg
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [49.411, 5.669], North East [50.205, 6.548] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Class | Arachnida |
| Order | Opiliones |
| Family | Sclerosomatidae, Nemastomatidae, Phalangiidae, Trogulidae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 2014-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 87ec676a-4f4f-4f19-b2e4-3db3bbb786fa |
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| https://gbif.mnhn.lu/ipt/resource?r=opiliones_luxembourg_2014 |