BF_DIG2-StygofaunaMundi

The Stygofauna Mundi database is an Access database gathering all the information on groundwater crustacean species distribution contained in 36 chapters of Botosaneanu L. (1986). These chapters were digitised in the framework of the EU FP7 BioFresh project.

Please consult also the information in "StygofaunaMundi-Metadata.pdf" and "StygofaunaMundi-Intro.pdf" for more background on this dataset.

DATA FILES
Please download "BF_DIG2-StygofaunaMundi.zip" for obtaining the data files.

The original database is available in MS Access format "StygofaunaMundi-Access_database", as much as possible these data were mapped to the Darwin Core exchange standard, which is available as csv-files in "StygofaunaMundi-DarwinCore".

SHAPEFILES
Supporting shapefile data is available in "StygofaunaMundi-Shapefile_data"

LICENSE
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode and available according to the community norms at http://www.canadensys.net/norms

Please cite the original work:
- Botosaneanu L. (1986). Stygofauna Mundi. A faunistic, distributional, and ecological synthesis of the world fauna inhabiting subterranean waters (including the Marine Interstitial). Leiden E.J. BRILL. The Netherlands. 740 pages.

and this digitised database:
- BioFresh (publisher) (2014) Stygofauna Mundi database, digitised from Botosaneanu L. (1986). Published on http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu, accessed on [date].