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LSUMZ Mammals Collection

Specimen Records: 39,183
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2017-12-06

The mammal collection (current holdings more than 37,000 specimens) is the largest of its kind in the Central Gulf region and among the 20 largest in the nation. The collection contains 23 holotypes (specimens representing species new to science).

Contacts

Name Jake Esselstyn
RoleCurator
Emailesselstyn@lsu.edu
Name Jake Esselstyn
RoleCurator
Emailesselstyn@lsu.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 Jake Esselstyn
RoleCurator
Emailesselstyn@lsu.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  i39063
99.694
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i39063
99.694
dwc_taxonid_added  i39063
99.694
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i39063
99.694
gbif_canonicalname_added  i39063
99.694
gbif_genericname_added  i39063
99.694
gbif_taxon_corrected  i39063
99.694
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i38783
98.979
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i38757
98.913
gbif_vernacularname_added  i37863
96.631
gbif_reference_added  i36753
93.798
dwc_multimedia_added  i31048
79.238
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i25409
64.847
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i13031
33.257
geopoint_datum_error  i8807
22.477
geopoint_low_precision  i7900
20.162
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1866
4.762
taxon_match_failed  i1233
3.147
dwc_genus_replaced  i1112
2.838
dwc_country_replaced  i879
2.243
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i816
2.083
rev_geocode_eez  i504
1.286
rev_geocode_mismatch  i204
0.521
dwc_family_replaced  i104
0.265
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i52
0.133
dwc_class_replaced  i16
0.041
dwc_family_added  i16
0.041
dwc_genus_added  i16
0.041
dwc_order_replaced  i16
0.041
dwc_phylum_replaced  i16
0.041
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i11
0.028
dwc_continent_replaced  i8
0.02
rev_geocode_corrected  i8
0.02
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i7
0.018
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i1
0.003
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