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FHSM Herps Collection

Specimen Records: 15,389
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2015-05-27

The Herpetology Collection at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University (FHSM) contains more than 16,000 recent catalogued specimens. FHSM is a major repository for voucher, reference, and research specimens from the Great Plains and beyond. Since 2001 the collection has become a regionally significant tissue repository, as nearly all voucher specimens have ethanol preserved tissues available for use in molecular and genetic studies.

Contacts

Name Curtis Schmidt
RoleCollections Manager
Emailcjschmidt@fhsu.edu
Name Curtis Schmidt
RoleCollections Manager
Emailcjschmidt@fhsu.edu
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This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added  i15374
99.903
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i15374
99.903
dwc_taxonid_added  i15374
99.903
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i15374
99.903
gbif_canonicalname_added  i15374
99.903
gbif_genericname_added  i15374
99.903
gbif_taxon_corrected  i15374
99.903
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i15347
99.727
gbif_vernacularname_added  i15321
99.558
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i15216
98.876
gbif_reference_added  i14987
97.388
geopoint_datum_error  i14671
95.334
dwc_multimedia_added  i12934
84.047
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i8069
52.434
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i7053
45.831
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i2353
15.29
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1543
10.027
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1540
10.007
rev_geocode_corrected  i1513
9.832
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1513
9.832
dwc_continent_added  i1193
7.752
dwc_country_added  i1193
7.752
taxon_match_failed  i490
3.184
geopoint_low_precision  i267
1.735
rev_geocode_eez  i96
0.624
dwc_family_replaced  i60
0.39
dwc_genus_replaced  i11
0.071
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i7
0.045
datecollected_bounds  i6
0.039
geopoint_bounds  i6
0.039
dwc_class_added  i2
0.013
dwc_order_replaced  i2
0.013
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i2
0.013
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