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NMNH Extant Specimen Records (USNM, US)

Specimen Records: 9,255,748
Media Records: 5,373,445
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-08-14

Public records of accessioned specimens and observations curated by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. These data are from the Departments of Botany, Entomology, Invertebrate Zoology and Vertebrate Zoology (Amphibians & Reptiles, Birds, Fishes, and Mammals) and include more than 270,000 primary type specimen records.

Contacts

Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics and Data Science Center - Digital Stewardship
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics and Data Science Center - Digital Stewardship
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
Name Chris Tuccinardi
RoleInformation Management
Emailtuccinar@si.edu
Name Karen Reed
RoleData Manager
Emailreedk@si.edu
Name Jessica Bird
RoleCollections Information Manager
Emailbirdj@si.edu
Name Diane Pitassy
RoleActing Collection Manager/Data Manager
Emailpitassyd@si.edu
Name Collection Managers
RoleCollection Managers
EmailNMNH-HerpsCM@si.edu
Name Brian Schmidt
RoleData Manager
Emailschmidtb@si.edu
Name Ingrid Rochon
RoleScientific Data Manager
Emailrochoni@si.edu
Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics and Data Science Center - Digital Stewardship
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i8640727
93.355
dwc_datasetid_added  i7773625
83.987
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i7773625
83.987
dwc_taxonid_added  i7773625
83.987
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i7773625
83.987
gbif_canonicalname_added  i7773625
83.987
gbif_genericname_added  i7773625
83.987
gbif_taxon_corrected  i7773625
83.987
dwc_taxonrank_added  i6798619
73.453
gbif_reference_added  i6605387
71.365
gbif_vernacularname_added  i5380573
58.132
dwc_multimedia_added  i4459582
48.182
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i4350782
47.006
dwc_continent_replaced  i3999300
43.209
dwc_class_replaced  i3252323
35.138
dwc_phylum_added  i3173238
34.284
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i2604327
28.137
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i2544960
27.496
geopoint_datum_missing  i2496112
26.968
taxon_match_failed  i1997544
21.582
geopoint_low_precision  i1167635
12.615
rev_geocode_eez  i1008830
10.899
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i973100
10.513
dwc_continent_added  i940507
10.161
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i832955
8.999
dwc_family_replaced  i610989
6.601
dwc_order_added  i489173
5.285
dwc_genus_replaced  i427243
4.616
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i341684
3.692
dwc_order_replaced  i288859
3.121
dwc_class_added  i153592
1.659
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i114533
1.237
dwc_country_replaced  i93619
1.011
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i92188
0.996
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i74208
0.802
rev_geocode_mismatch  i66273
0.716
rev_geocode_failure  i55067
0.595
geopoint_datum_error  i50207
0.542
dwc_phylum_replaced  i49418
0.534
dwc_family_added  i41934
0.453
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i21929
0.237
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i9834
0.106
rev_geocode_corrected  i9710
0.105
dwc_specificepithet_added  i6385
0.069
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i4889
0.053
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i3269
0.035
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i3142
0.034
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i2749
0.03
dwc_genus_added  i2109
0.023
dwc_kingdom_added  i2075
0.022
rev_geocode_flip  i760
0.008
geopoint_0_coord  i647
0.007
geopoint_similar_coord  i618
0.007
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i553
0.006
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i124
0.001
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i117
0.001
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i117
0.001
dwc_country_added  i89
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i73
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i42
0
geopoint_bounds  i24
0
geopoint_pre_flip  i4
0
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