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Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections - TCWC Marine Invertebrates

Specimen Records: 22,804
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2017-01-08

The Collection of Marine Invertebrates consists of over 47,000 dry and fluid-preserved marine invertebrates primarily from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. This collection was donated in 1995 by the Department of Oceanography at Texas A&M University. The majority of the specimens were collected by Research Vessels Alaminos and Gyre during the 1960’s and 1970’s. At that time, there had been relatively few biological studies conducted in the Gulf of Mexico. The studies that had been completed prior to that time were from ships unable to perform numerous deep water trawls and dredges, and no studies documented the western half of the Gulf. The new ships were able to perform such trawls and dredges and surveyed a larger portion of the Gulf than the earlier studies. Funding for much of the original collection was provided in part by Sea Grant. The collection remains the most comprehensive collection of deep sea invertebrates from the Gulf of Mexico. It is an active collection and used by systematists, undergraduates, and graduates as a resource for their studies. Dr. Mary K. Wicksten, from the Texas A&M University Biology Department, generously donates her time as curator. Although our collection is called the “Marine” Invertebrate Collection, we recently acquired a landmark collection of freshwater crayfishes from Sterling Johnson, a retiree from Texas A&M University and author of Texas Crawdads. These include vouchers for his book “Texas Crawdads” and constitute a valuable resource for conservation of rare and endemic freshwater fauna.

Contacts

Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailhlprestridge@tamu.edu
Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailhlprestridge@tamu.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
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98.456
dwc_datasetid_added  i20217
88.655
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i20217
88.655
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88.655
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88.655
gbif_canonicalname_added  i20217
88.655
gbif_genericname_added  i20217
88.655
gbif_taxon_corrected  i20217
88.655
rev_geocode_eez  i19494
85.485
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84.297
gbif_reference_added  i18271
80.122
dwc_order_replaced  i12325
54.048
geopoint_low_precision  i8968
39.326
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37.397
dwc_class_replaced  i8154
35.757
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31.473
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29.938
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26.697
dwc_family_replaced  i3773
16.545
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12.397
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i2538
11.13
taxon_match_failed  i2072
9.086
dwc_order_added  i1011
4.433
dwc_genus_added  i613
2.688
dwc_phylum_replaced  i485
2.127
dwc_family_added  i429
1.881
rev_geocode_failure  i329
1.443
dwc_class_added  i100
0.439
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i95
0.417
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i82
0.36
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i52
0.228
datecollected_bounds  i41
0.18
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i26
0.114
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0.018
dwc_continent_replaced  i2
0.009
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1
0.004
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0.004
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