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Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections - TCWC Vertebrates

Specimen Records: 256,509
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2021-03-25

The Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (formerly the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection - TCWC), is the natural history collection maintained by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University in College Station Texas.

Contacts

Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailhlprestridge@tamu.edu
Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailhlprestridge@tamu.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailbrtc@tamu.edu
Name Toby Hibbitts
RoleCurator
Emailthibbitts@tamu.edu
Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailhlprestridge@tamu.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
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  i253174
98.7
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i253174
98.7
dwc_taxonid_added  i253174
98.7
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i253174
98.7
gbif_canonicalname_added  i253174
98.7
gbif_genericname_added  i253174
98.7
gbif_taxon_corrected  i253174
98.7
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i251531
98.059
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i244202
95.202
gbif_vernacularname_added  i241509
94.152
gbif_reference_added  i236821
92.325
dwc_multimedia_added  i203837
79.466
dwc_kingdom_added  i194645
75.882
dwc_phylum_added  i194645
75.882
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i183949
71.712
geopoint_datum_error  i172798
67.365
dwc_class_added  i93427
36.423
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i93201
36.334
dwc_order_replaced  i41427
16.15
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i30746
11.986
rev_geocode_eez  i27885
10.871
taxon_match_failed  i20170
7.863
dwc_genus_replaced  i18772
7.318
dwc_family_replaced  i13579
5.294
geopoint_low_precision  i11988
4.674
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i9131
3.56
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2995
1.168
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i2192
0.855
dwc_class_replaced  i1913
0.746
rev_geocode_corrected  i1213
0.473
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i807
0.315
dwc_continent_replaced  i641
0.25
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i623
0.243
dwc_country_replaced  i474
0.185
rev_geocode_failure  i321
0.125
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i286
0.111
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i267
0.104
dwc_genus_added  i207
0.081
rev_geocode_both_sign  i138
0.054
dwc_phylum_replaced  i93
0.036
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i50
0.019
datecollected_bounds  i30
0.012
dwc_family_added  i8
0.003
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i5
0.002
dwc_order_added  i3
0.001
dwc_specificepithet_added  i2
0.001
geopoint_0_coord  i2
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.001
dwc_continent_added  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i1
0
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