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MVZ Herp Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 294,353
Media Records: 1,341
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-08-24

The MVZ collection of amphibians and reptiles contains over 270,000 catalogued specimens. As of 8 April 2004, 123 of these have been designated holotypes, three are neotypes, three are syntypes, and 1793 are paratypes and paratopotypes. Most specimens are fluid-preserved, but the collection also contains skeletal preparations, sets of amphibian eggs and larvae, and several thousand specimens that have been cleared and stained. Other special collections include pineal organs, 800 sectioned heads, a series of dried anuran skins from California and Argentina, and stomach contents that have been removed from more than 3,000 predatory reptiles.

Contacts

Name Carol Spencer
RoleStaff Curator of Herpetology
Emailatrox@berkeley.edu
Name Carol Spencer
RoleStaff Curator of Herpetology
Emailatrox@berkeley.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 Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Jim McGuire
RoleFaculty Curator of Herpetology
Emailmcguirej@berkeley.edu
Name David Wake
RoleFaculty Curator of Herpetology
Emailwakelab@berkeley.edu
Name Michelle Koo
RoleGIS and Bioinformatics Specialist
Emailmkoo@berkeley.edu
Name Carol Spencer
RoleStaff Curator of Herpetology
Emailatrox@berkeley.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  i290346
98.639
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98.639
dwc_taxonid_added  i290346
98.639
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i290346
98.639
dwc_taxonrank_added  i290346
98.639
gbif_canonicalname_added  i290346
98.639
gbif_genericname_added  i290346
98.639
gbif_taxon_corrected  i290346
98.639
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i289798
98.453
dwc_continent_added  i288711
98.083
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i287865
97.796
gbif_reference_added  i272372
92.532
gbif_vernacularname_added  i271907
92.374
geopoint_datum_error  i270386
91.858
dwc_multimedia_added  i207557
70.513
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i100859
34.265
dwc_family_replaced  i49648
16.867
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i27701
9.411
taxon_match_failed  i22423
7.618
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i21157
7.188
rev_geocode_eez  i14714
4.999
dwc_genus_replaced  i8724
2.964
geopoint_datum_missing  i8468
2.877
dwc_continent_replaced  i2526
0.858
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i780
0.265
rev_geocode_mismatch  i757
0.257
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i117
0.04
dwc_order_replaced  i76
0.026
rev_geocode_corrected  i40
0.014
dwc_country_replaced  i34
0.012
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i32
0.011
dwc_class_replaced  i14
0.005
dwc_phylum_replaced  i14
0.005
geopoint_0_coord  i9
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i5
0.002
dwc_specificepithet_added  i4
0.001
rev_geocode_failure  i3
0.001
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i3
0.001
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i2
0.001
dwc_order_added  i2
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.001
datecollected_bounds  i1
0
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