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CAS Botany (BOT)

Specimen Records: 1,053,184
Media Records: 822,910
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-18

The electronic catalog of the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Contacts

Name Emily Magnaghi
RoleInterim Collections Manager, Botany
Emailemagnaghi@calacademy.org
Name Jon Fong
RoleCuratorial Assistant/Programmer
Emailjfong@calacademy.org
Name Emily Magnaghi
RoleInterim Collections Manager, Botany
Emailemagnaghi@calacademy.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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i1049919
99.69
dwc_datasetid_added  i910586
86.46
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i910586
86.46
dwc_taxonid_added  i910586
86.46
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i910586
86.46
gbif_canonicalname_added  i910586
86.46
gbif_genericname_added  i910586
86.46
gbif_taxon_corrected  i910586
86.46
dwc_phylum_replaced  i810807
76.986
gbif_vernacularname_added  i793372
75.331
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i697955
66.271
gbif_reference_added  i686952
65.226
dwc_multimedia_added  i648894
61.613
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i518885
49.268
taxon_match_failed  i399072
37.892
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i194706
18.487
dwc_order_replaced  i151145
14.351
geopoint_datum_missing  i141285
13.415
dwc_family_replaced  i91633
8.701
dwc_order_added  i85201
8.09
dwc_class_added  i85154
8.085
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i79439
7.543
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i69802
6.628
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i40903
3.884
dwc_genus_replaced  i28617
2.717
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i14450
1.372
dwc_class_replaced  i11814
1.122
rev_geocode_eez  i6532
0.62
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i4156
0.395
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4145
0.394
geopoint_datum_error  i2773
0.263
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2278
0.216
dwc_continent_replaced  i1458
0.138
dwc_genus_added  i1400
0.133
rev_geocode_corrected  i1032
0.098
dwc_country_replaced  i950
0.09
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i869
0.083
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i758
0.072
dwc_specificepithet_added  i476
0.045
rev_geocode_failure  i332
0.032
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i297
0.028
datecollected_bounds  i231
0.022
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i212
0.02
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i49
0.005
geopoint_0_coord  i23
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i13
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i7
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i5
0
rev_geocode_both_sign  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i3
0
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i2
0
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i2
0
geopoint_pre_flip  i2
0
dwc_family_added  i1
0
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