Ichthyology
Collections
- With 3/4 of a million of specimens is the RMCA collection of fishes the largest collection of fresh- and brackish water fishes from Africa in the world.
The collection contains the type material of about one third of the described African fish species.
The collection is entirely digitalised and can be searched through FishBase – Fish Collections.
Info: J. Snoeks and E. Vreven
- For the great lakes region, the Museum equally has the largest collection of type specimens from lakes Kivu and Tanganyika, some of which date back to the founding of the Museum. Recently an important collection of a few hundred, mostly undescribed, lake Malawai species has been added.
Info: J. Snoeks
Online collections
- The cichlid fishes of Lake Kivu and Tanganyika : http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/fish/
- Albertian Rift Cichlids: http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/94/
- http://fishbase.org
