Checklist dataset Registered March 07, 2011

    Fauna Europaea

    de Jong Y
    LicenceUnspecified

    Description

    The Fauna Europaea project (EVR1-1999-20001) has been funded by the European Commission for a period of four years (1 March 2000 - 1 March 2004) within the Fifth Framework Programme (5FP). Fauna Europaea has assembled a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals.

    Geographic scope

    Description

    Species and subspecies are registered at least at the level of political countries. The Fauna Europaea geographical system follows basically the ISO 3166 and TDWG 2.0 country code with minor modifications. The covered area is the same as European mainland (Western Palearctic), plus the Macaronesian islands (excluding Cape Verde Islands), Cyprus, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, the Western Kazakhstan excluded. The geographic boundaries include: East: Ural (E 60°), West: Atlantic Ocean (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) (W 30°), South: Mediterranean (N 35°), North: Arctic Islands (N 82°)

    Latitude
    From 34.97 to 82.2
    Longitude
    From -16.59 to 74.25

    Contacts

    • Yde de Jong

      Originator
      Metadata author
      Administrative point of contact
      Organization
      FaEu
      Roles
      Originator
      Metadata author
      Administrative point of contact
      Email

    GBIF registration

    Registration date
    March 07, 2011
    Metadata last modified
    February 02, 2021
    Publication date
    September 09, 2016
    Hosted by
    GBIF Secretariat
    Installation
    GBIF Resources
    Endpoints
    Darwin Core Archive
    Preferred identifier
    10.15468/ymk1bx

    Citation

    de Jong Y (2016). Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea Consortium. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ymk1bx accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-22.