Natural History Museum Rotterdam (NL) - Mollusca collection

Frans Slieker

doi:10.15468/tgt9dj

Natural History Museum Rotterdam (NL) - Mollusca collection

Citation

Slieker F (2020). Natural History Museum Rotterdam (NL) - Mollusca collection. Version 17.43. Natural History Museum Rotterdam. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/tgt9dj accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.

Description

West Palearctic and tropical Bivalves: Arcoida, Myoida, Mytiloida, Nuculoida, Ostreoida, Pholadomyoida, Pterioida, Solemyoida, Trigonioida, Veneroida. Emphasis on Pectinidae, and Veneridae. Important collection West Palearctic marine Gastropods and marine micro mollusks, as well as a representative collection non-West Palearctic gastropods. Smaller representative collection of European land- en freshwater snails. Taxa include: Caenogastropoda, Cocculiniformia, Heterobranchia, Neritimorpha, Opistobranchia, Patellogastropoda, Pulmonata and Vetigastropoda. The Polyplacophora collection holds the private collection of Frans J.A. Slieker, author of 'Chitons of the World' (2000) and is the second largest in the Netherlands after the collection of the 'Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis (Leiden)'. Emphasis on West-Palearctic species. Taxa include: Leptochitonidae, Hanleyidae, Mopaliidae, Ischnochitonidae, Callochitonidae, Callistochitonidae, Lepidochitonidae, Schizochitonidae, Chitonidae, Cryptoplacidae and Acanthochitonidae. Representative collection West-Palearctic Scaphopoda. Small, but representative collection of non-West-Palearctic species. Taxa include: Gadilinidae, Dentaliidae, Fustiariidae, Laevidentaliidae, Entalinidae, Pulsellidae and Gadalidae. Important collections of Eocene (Paris Basin), Miocene (Winterswijk, Miste, Dingden) and Pliocene/Pleistocene mollusks (Westerschelde, de Kaloot, Antwerp Harbour). Taxa include: Arcoida, Caenogastropoda, Cocculiniformia, Dentaliida, Gadilida, Heterobranchia, Myoida, Mytiloida, Neritimorpha, Nuculoida, Opistobranchia, Ostreoida, Patellogastropoda, Pholadomyoida, Pterioida, Pulmonata, Sepiida, Veneroida and Vetigastropoda.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

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Sampling

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Method steps

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Taxonomic Coverages

Mollusca

mollusca
common name: molluscs rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

Global

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Frans Slieker
originator
position: Honorary Curator
Natural History Museum Rotterdam
Westzeedijk 345
Rotterdam
NL-3015 AA
NL
Telephone: +31-(0)10-4364222
email: fjas@caiway.net

Frans Slieker
metadata author
position: Honorary Curator
Natural History Museum Rotterdam
Westzeedijk 345
Rotterdam
NL-3015 AA
NL
Telephone: +31-(0)10-4364222
email: fjas@caiway.net

Niels Raes
processor
position: Node Manager
NLBIF
PO Box 9517
Leiden
NL-2300 RA
NL
Telephone: +31 71 751 9362
email: nlbif@naturalis.nl
homepage: http://www.nlbif.nl
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4329-4892

Frans Slieker
administrative point of contact
position: Honorary Curator
Natural History Museum Rotterdam
Westzeedijk 345
Rotterdam
NL-3015 AA
NL
Telephone: +31-(0)10-4364222
email: slieker@hetnatuurhistorisch.nl