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Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Amphibian and Reptile Collection

Specimen Records: 286,699
Media Records: 6,827
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-08-24

The collection serves as a major research resource for the national and international scientific communities and contains unique material of special historical and ecological significance. The collection database is accessible online on this website and through HerpNET. During the 1970’s, it was recognized as one of the five largest and most representative collections of amphibians and reptiles in the United States (Wake et al. 1975). Currently it ranks among the top six herpetological collections in the United States and one of the twenty largest in the World. Collection use has been growing steadily. Loan requests, visits by researchers, and information requests are at high levels. Zoologists, paleontologists, wildlife disease researchers and other disciplines utilize the collections. Regular collection users include professional scientists, agency personnel and students (undergraduate and graduate).

Contacts

Name Sharon Grant
RoleTechnology Liaison to Science
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
Name Kate Webbink
RoleInformation Specialist
Emailnone
Name Alan Resetar
RoleCollection Manager
Emailaresetar@fieldmuseum.org
Name Josh Mata
RoleAssistant Collection Manager
Emailjmata@fieldmuseum.org
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name Sharon Grant
RoleTechnology Liaison to Science
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
  • 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
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96.977
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96.977
dwc_taxonid_added  i278032
96.977
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i278032
96.977
dwc_taxonrank_added  i278032
96.977
gbif_canonicalname_added  i278032
96.977
gbif_genericname_added  i278032
96.977
gbif_taxon_corrected  i278032
96.977
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i271599
94.733
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i247884
86.461
gbif_reference_added  i247040
86.167
gbif_vernacularname_added  i244520
85.288
dwc_multimedia_added  i162522
56.687
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38.424
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34.832
dwc_country_replaced  i65860
22.972
dwc_family_replaced  i50219
17.516
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i47901
16.708
taxon_match_failed  i32068
11.185
dwc_genus_replaced  i28345
9.887
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i10795
3.765
dwc_continent_replaced  i7318
2.553
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2288
0.798
dwc_genus_added  i140
0.049
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0.048
dwc_family_added  i137
0.048
dwc_order_added  i137
0.048
dwc_phylum_replaced  i5
0.002
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i5
0.002
dwc_specificepithet_added  i2
0.001
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i1
0
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