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DMNS Mammal Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 21,580
Media Records: 1,679
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-08-24

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Mammal Collection currently consists of approximately 21,000 specimens, which includes 20,000+ cataloged specimens. The collection spans 1870 to the present, is worldwide in coverage, and includes specimens from the three major extant mammalian lineages (monotremes, marsupials, and placentals) distributed across 21 orders, 266 genera, and 381 species. The collection’s primary strength is its focus on the southern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. Approximately 82% of the collection is from the western United States, with specimens from Colorado (73%) representing the largest percentage. Small mammals, such as shrews, rodents, lagomorphs, and bats, constitute the majority (84%) of specimens in the collection. The composition of the collection is primarily study skins and skeletal material, with a growing wet collection. High-quality specimen data, frozen tissues, and parasites are associated with most of the specimens archived since 2006.

Contacts

Name John Demboski
RoleCurator of Vertebrate Zoology
Emailjohn.demboski@dmns.org
Name John Demboski
RoleCurator of Vertebrate Zoology
Emailjohn.demboski@dmns.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 John Demboski
RoleCurator of Vertebrate Zoology
Emailjohn.demboski@dmns.org
Name Andrew Doll
RoleZoology Collections Manager
Emailandrew.doll@dmns.org
  • Data Corrected
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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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99.583
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99.583
dwc_taxonid_added  i21490
99.583
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i21490
99.583
gbif_canonicalname_added  i21490
99.583
gbif_genericname_added  i21490
99.583
gbif_taxon_corrected  i21490
99.583
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i21472
99.5
gbif_vernacularname_added  i21339
98.883
dwc_multimedia_added  i21151
98.012
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i21095
97.753
dwc_continent_added  i21073
97.651
gbif_reference_added  i20457
94.796
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i16864
78.146
geopoint_datum_error  i13188
61.112
geopoint_datum_missing  i6035
27.966
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i4892
22.669
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i732
3.392
dwc_order_replaced  i490
2.271
dwc_continent_replaced  i463
2.146
dwc_genus_replaced  i462
2.141
taxon_match_failed  i356
1.65
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i164
0.76
rev_geocode_eez  i126
0.584
dwc_family_replaced  i64
0.297
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0.083
dwc_family_added  i14
0.065
dwc_kingdom_added  i14
0.065
dwc_phylum_added  i14
0.065
dwc_class_replaced  i13
0.06
dwc_phylum_replaced  i13
0.06
dwc_genus_added  i10
0.046
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i9
0.042
rev_geocode_mismatch  i9
0.042
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i3
0.014
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3
0.014
dwc_country_replaced  i2
0.009
rev_geocode_corrected  i2
0.009
rev_geocode_failure  i2
0.009
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i2
0.009
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