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LACM Vertebrate Collection

Specimen Records: 595,613
Media Records: 1,122
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-25

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 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
  • 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  i568119
95.384
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i568119
95.384
dwc_taxonid_added  i568119
95.384
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i568119
95.384
gbif_canonicalname_added  i568119
95.384
gbif_genericname_added  i568119
95.384
gbif_taxon_corrected  i568119
95.384
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i549339
92.231
gbif_reference_added  i529234
88.855
gbif_vernacularname_added  i524609
88.079
dwc_multimedia_added  i426598
71.623
dwc_continent_added  i425461
71.432
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i376359
63.189
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i357356
59.998
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i201994
33.914
dwc_country_replaced  i201059
33.757
geopoint_low_precision  i189164
31.76
dwc_phylum_added  i160435
26.936
dwc_class_added  i160118
26.883
rev_geocode_eez  i155392
26.089
dwc_order_replaced  i133977
22.494
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i125566
21.082
dwc_family_replaced  i105238
17.669
geopoint_datum_missing  i91360
15.339
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i64553
10.838
taxon_match_failed  i55156
9.26
dwc_genus_replaced  i51037
8.569
geopoint_datum_error  i35494
5.959
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i23934
4.018
rev_geocode_failure  i12735
2.138
rev_geocode_mismatch  i6127
1.029
dwc_continent_replaced  i2566
0.431
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2427
0.407
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2042
0.343
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i1165
0.196
geopoint_0_coord  i614
0.103
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i369
0.062
dwc_family_added  i123
0.021
rev_geocode_corrected  i122
0.02
dwc_genus_added  i89
0.015
datecollected_bounds  i63
0.011
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i45
0.008
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i40
0.007
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i37
0.006
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i25
0.004
dwc_class_replaced  i24
0.004
dwc_phylum_replaced  i24
0.004
dwc_specificepithet_added  i5
0.001
dwc_country_added  i3
0.001
dwc_order_added  i1
0
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