Swiss National Fauna Databank

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch on May 18, 2026 Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch

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Description

This dataset is maintained by info fauna (National Data and Information Centre of Swiss Fauna), a member of InfoSpecies. It includes records of faunistic groups from Switzerland and the adjacent area. Data sources include field observations provided by a large network of volunteer collaborators, environmental impact studies, national inventories and red lists, literature and academic work. The period covered by the data extends from 1501 to the present day. All data provided have been subject to an expert validation procedure.

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 10,672,974 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.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch. 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: 0a0b594e-0c5e-4766-a5d7-66043160de5f.  Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Switzerland.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Glenn Litsios
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Director
info fauna
  • Avenue de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Thierry Bohnenstengel
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Av. de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Maxime Chèvre
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Av. de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Yannick Chittaro
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Av. de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
François Claude
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Av. de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Lisa Fisler
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Av. de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Christian Monnerat
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Av. de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Serena Pedraita
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Av. de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Christophe Praz
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Av. de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Andreas Sanchez
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Avenue de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Miriam Steinhauer
  • Originator
  • Scientific collaborator
info fauna
  • Avenue de Bellevaux 51
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Sofia Wyler

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 0a0b594e-0c5e-4766-a5d7-66043160de5f
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