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LACM Vertebrate Collection

Specimen Records: 599,046
Media Records: 1,122
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

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 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 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 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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i552179
92.176
geopoint_low_precision  i511173
85.331
dwc_datasetid_added  i406421
67.845
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i406421
67.845
dwc_taxonid_added  i406421
67.845
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i406421
67.845
gbif_canonicalname_added  i406421
67.845
gbif_genericname_added  i406421
67.845
gbif_taxon_corrected  i406421
67.845
gbif_reference_added  i368465
61.509
gbif_vernacularname_added  i364348
60.821
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i305011
50.916
dwc_order_replaced  i295134
49.267
dwc_multimedia_added  i281179
46.938
dwc_continent_added  i248528
41.487
dwc_family_replaced  i246331
41.121
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i224714
37.512
dwc_country_replaced  i201802
33.687
dwc_phylum_added  i161243
26.917
dwc_class_added  i160926
26.864
rev_geocode_eez  i155808
26.009
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i152323
25.428
geopoint_datum_missing  i93926
15.679
dwc_genus_replaced  i62887
10.498
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i56843
9.489
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i42979
7.175
taxon_match_failed  i40265
6.722
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i23229
3.878
rev_geocode_failure  i22735
3.795
rev_geocode_mismatch  i14597
2.437
geopoint_0_coord  i10702
1.787
geopoint_similar_coord  i10003
1.67
dwc_continent_replaced  i8239
1.375
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1778
0.297
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1456
0.243
dwc_class_replaced  i938
0.157
scientificname_added  i838
0.14
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i825
0.138
dwc_taxonrank_added  i817
0.136
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i348
0.058
rev_geocode_corrected  i140
0.023
dwc_genus_added  i81
0.014
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i55
0.009
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i45
0.008
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i40
0.007
datecollected_bounds  i37
0.006
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i25
0.004
dwc_phylum_replaced  i24
0.004
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