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Brigham Young University (BYU) Herpetology Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 42,242
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2022-08-14

The BYU herpetology collection houses over 40,000 fluid preserved specimens, including 36 types, and over 15,000 tissue samples. The geographic focus of the collection is the Great Basin/Intermountain West, but there are also extensive collections from Latin America, Central Africa, and the Pacific. The BYU Life Science Museum was formerly known as the Monte L. Bean Museum.

Contacts

Name Alison Whiting
RoleCurator
Emailalison.whiting@byu.edu
Name Alison Whiting
RoleCurator
Emailalison.whiting@byu.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Alison Whiting
RoleCurator
Emailalison.whiting@byu.edu
  • 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  i42076
99.607
dwc_datasetid_added  i40730
96.421
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i40730
96.421
dwc_taxonid_added  i40730
96.421
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i40730
96.421
gbif_canonicalname_added  i40730
96.421
gbif_genericname_added  i40730
96.421
gbif_taxon_corrected  i40730
96.421
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i40241
95.263
gbif_reference_added  i36813
87.148
gbif_vernacularname_added  i36650
86.762
dwc_taxonrank_added  i28831
68.252
dwc_multimedia_added  i28731
68.015
geopoint_datum_error  i15601
36.932
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i12417
29.395
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i5773
13.666
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i5126
12.135
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i3802
9.001
dwc_continent_replaced  i3724
8.816
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i3476
8.229
taxon_match_failed  i2080
4.924
dwc_family_replaced  i1274
3.016
dwc_genus_replaced  i1255
2.971
rev_geocode_mismatch  i520
1.231
rev_geocode_eez  i301
0.713
dwc_class_added  i289
0.684
dwc_order_added  i255
0.604
dwc_kingdom_added  i228
0.54
dwc_phylum_added  i228
0.54
dwc_family_added  i188
0.445
geopoint_datum_missing  i172
0.407
rev_geocode_corrected  i95
0.225
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i78
0.185
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i61
0.144
dwc_genus_added  i43
0.102
dwc_specificepithet_added  i43
0.102
dwc_country_replaced  i41
0.097
dwc_order_replaced  i23
0.054
rev_geocode_failure  i13
0.031
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i9
0.021
dwc_class_replaced  i7
0.017
rev_geocode_both_sign  i7
0.017
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i2
0.005
dwc_phylum_replaced  i2
0.005
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0.002
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