Description
This dataset presents Reptile occurrence records from Switzerland and adjacent areas. Data sources are literature, museum collections and field observations. The latter and most important resource is provided by a small network of volunteer collaborators, regional representatives of the Swiss Coordination Office for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (https://infofauna.ch/fr/services-conseil/reptiles-karch) as well as environmental impact studies, national and regional inventories, monitoring, field work for Red Lists and academic work (2025-03-10: 266'993 records). In order to protect sensitive species, occurrence data is generally provided as annual presence reported per 5x5km/10x10km grid cell. The period covered by the data extends from 1800 to the present day. All data provided have been subject to a 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 58,595 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 Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fbd5a464-aa0e-4a9d-8aad-34c7ba8d6997. 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
Contacts
- Originator
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- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Switzerland and adjacent area
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [45.818, 5.956], North East [47.808, 10.492] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Reptilia
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Reptilia |
| Order | Chelonii, Squamata |
| Family | Lacertidae, Viperidae, Emydidae, Phyllodactylidae, Anguidae, Gekkonidae, Colubridae |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | fbd5a464-aa0e-4a9d-8aad-34c7ba8d6997 |
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| https://ipt.gbif.ch/resource?r=karch-rep |