Koltur species checklist

Checklist Inventory Regional
Latest version published by Faroe Islands National Museum on Jul 3, 2025 Faroe Islands National Museum
Publication date:
July 3, 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

A species inventory of the island of Koltur (Faroe Islands). It will be updated, but the first version is the one published in the associated paper. The numbers do not match exactly due to some taxa being recognized as distinct, but not identified. The inventory was conducted Between 2019 and 2024, serving as a baseline for future monitoring of the terrestrial ecosystem of the island. The inventory focussed on terrestrial species of birds, plants and invertebrates and resulted in a total of 520 species recorded from the island since 2019. Among those, 56 were birds, 146 plants, and 317 invertebrates, mainly insects. A high number of invertebrates were new records for Koltur (242) as well as for the Faroe Islands in general (49).

Data Records

The data in this checklist 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 607 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.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Kreiling A, Aldará J, í Haraldsstovu K, Andersen H J, Bechberger O, Fahldieck M, Gusarov V I, Haas M, Hansen J F, Kjærandsen J, Kompa T, Thomsen K A, Trygvadóttir Fjallstein B V, Welch M, Patursson B, Hansen L J (2025). Koltur species checklist. Version 1.4. Faroe Islands National Museum. Checklist dataset. https://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=koltur-baseline-checklist&v=1.4

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Faroe Islands National Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a6faf063-6abd-40e3-859c-90942ef3bc37.  Faroe Islands National Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by DanBIF - Danish Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Checklist; Inventoryregional

Contacts

Agnes-Katharina Kreiling
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Faroe Islands National Museum
188 Hoyvík
FO
Jón Aldará
  • Originator
Faroe Islands National Museum
188 Hoyvík
FO
Kolbrún í Haraldsstovu
  • Originator
Faroe Islands National Museum
188 Hoyvík
FO
Hans Jørgen Andersen
  • Originator
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University
Aarhus
DK
Oliver Bechberger
  • Originator
Department of Nature Conservation, Research and Monitoring, Black Forest Biosphere Reserve
DE
Moritz Fahldieck
  • Originator
Department of Arthropoda, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change/Museum Koenig Bonn
DE
Vladimir I. Gusarov
  • Originator
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Oslo
NO
Michael Haas
  • Originator
Department of Entomology, State Museum of Natural History
Stuttgart
DE
Jógvan Fróði Hansen
  • Originator
Biofar
Kaldbak
FO
Jostein Kjærandsen
  • Originator
Tromsø University Museum, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
Tromsø
NO
Thomas Kompa
  • Originator
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
06366 Köthen
DE
Karl A. Thomsen
  • Originator
Syðrugøta
FO
Birna Vár Trygvadóttir Fjallstein
  • Originator
Biofar
Kaldbak
FO
Mark Welch
  • Originator
Department of Earth Science, Natural History Museum
London
GB
Bjørn Patursson
  • Originator
Faroe Islands National Museum
188 Hoyvík
FO
Leivur Janus Hansen
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
Faroe Islands National Museum
188 Hoyvík
FO
Isabel Calabuig
  • Distributor
  • Node Manager & Data Curator
DanBIF, Natural History Museum of Denmark
Copenhagen
DK

Geographic Coverage

The island of Koltur (Faroe Islands)

Bounding Coordinates South West [61.97, -7.02], North East [62.001, -6.95]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Plantae, Animalia

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Maintenance Description Studies are on-going and new species are expected on an irregular basis. The checklist will be updated annually, if there have been new species recorded.
Alternative Identifiers a6faf063-6abd-40e3-859c-90942ef3bc37
https://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=koltur-baseline-checklist