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LACM Vertebrate Collection

Specimen Records: 597,015
Media Records: 1,122
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-07-12

The Collection includes the Fish, Herpetology, Bird and Mammal Collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. They are worldwide collections with greatest concentration in North and South America, Africa, the Pacific Ocean, and the Antarctic.

Contacts

Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase & Reports Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
Name William Ludt
RoleCurator
Emailwludt@nhm.org
Name Todd Clardy
RoleCollections Manager
Emailtclardy@nhm.org
Name Shannen Robson
RoleCollections Manager
Emailsrobson@nhm.org
Name Young Ha Suh
RoleCollections Manager
Emailysuh@nhm.org
Name Neftali Camacho
RoleCollections Manager
Emailncamacho@nhm.org
Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase & Reports Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Kimball Garrett
RoleCollection Manager - Birds
Emailkgarrett@nhm.org
Name Neftali Camacho
RoleCollections Manager - Herpetology
Emailncamacho@nhm.org
Name Shannen Robson
RoleCollections Manager - Mammalogy
Emailsrobson@nhm.org
Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase & Reports Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
Name Neftali Camacho
RoleCollections Manager
Emailncamacho@nhm.org
Name Todd Clardy
RoleCollections Manager
Emailtclardy@nhm.org
Name William Ludt
RoleCurator
Emailwludt@nhm.org
Name Young Ha Suh
RoleCollections Manager
Emailysuh@nhm.org
Name Shannen Robson
RoleCollections Manager
Emailsrobson@nhm.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
dwc_datasetid_added  i569305
95.359
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i569305
95.359
dwc_taxonid_added  i569305
95.359
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i569305
95.359
gbif_canonicalname_added  i569305
95.359
gbif_genericname_added  i569305
95.359
gbif_taxon_corrected  i569305
95.359
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i550693
92.241
gbif_reference_added  i530496
88.858
gbif_vernacularname_added  i525804
88.072
dwc_multimedia_added  i427555
71.615
dwc_continent_added  i426271
71.4
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i377041
63.154
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i357910
59.95
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i202663
33.946
dwc_country_replaced  i201629
33.773
geopoint_low_precision  i189233
31.697
dwc_phylum_added  i160831
26.939
dwc_class_added  i160514
26.886
rev_geocode_eez  i155504
26.047
dwc_order_replaced  i134293
22.494
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i125755
21.064
dwc_family_replaced  i105468
17.666
geopoint_datum_missing  i91596
15.342
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i65326
10.942
taxon_match_failed  i53843
9.019
dwc_genus_replaced  i51042
8.55
geopoint_datum_error  i35501
5.946
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i23970
4.015
rev_geocode_failure  i12735
2.133
rev_geocode_mismatch  i6128
1.026
dwc_continent_replaced  i2602
0.436
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2463
0.413
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2006
0.336
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1166
0.195
geopoint_0_coord  i614
0.103
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i368
0.062
dwc_family_added  i123
0.021
rev_geocode_corrected  i120
0.02
dwc_genus_added  i92
0.015
datecollected_bounds  i50
0.008
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i45
0.008
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i40
0.007
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i35
0.006
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i25
0.004
dwc_class_replaced  i24
0.004
dwc_phylum_replaced  i24
0.004
dwc_specificepithet_added  i2
0
dwc_order_added  i1
0
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