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Natural History Museum (London) Collection Specimens

Specimen Records: 5,502,300
Media Records: 4,793,783
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

Natural History Museum (London) Collection Specimens

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  • 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  i3826199
69.538
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3826199
69.538
dwc_taxonid_added  i3826199
69.538
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3826199
69.538
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3826199
69.538
gbif_genericname_added  i3826199
69.538
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3826199
69.538
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3814647
69.328
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i3451622
62.731
dwc_kingdom_added  i3081092
55.996
gbif_reference_added  i2610229
47.439
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2569007
46.69
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2096724
38.106
dwc_multimedia_added  i2000657
36.36
geopoint_datum_missing  i1355981
24.644
taxon_match_failed  i1162990
21.136
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i1075155
19.54
dwc_phylum_added  i1072952
19.5
dwc_class_added  i864177
15.706
dwc_order_added  i551002
10.014
dwc_phylum_replaced  i422451
7.678
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i406313
7.384
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i364064
6.617
dwc_family_added  i252360
4.586
dwc_family_replaced  i237102
4.309
dwc_genus_replaced  i223459
4.061
rev_geocode_eez  i160570
2.918
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i124240
2.258
dwc_order_replaced  i115147
2.093
geopoint_low_precision  i83348
1.515
dwc_specificepithet_added  i78124
1.42
dwc_class_replaced  i69758
1.268
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i42697
0.776
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i39628
0.72
dwc_continent_replaced  i38393
0.698
dwc_country_replaced  i37702
0.685
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i31483
0.572
rev_geocode_failure  i23352
0.424
datecollected_bounds  i18205
0.331
dwc_genus_added  i10518
0.191
rev_geocode_mismatch  i8940
0.162
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i4174
0.076
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i2906
0.053
rev_geocode_corrected  i2864
0.052
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1348
0.024
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i964
0.018
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i903
0.016
geopoint_0_coord  i477
0.009
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i209
0.004
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i203
0.004
rev_geocode_flip  i182
0.003
rev_geocode_both_sign  i161
0.003
geopoint_datum_error  i135
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i47
0.001
geopoint_pre_flip  i38
0.001
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i28
0.001
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i28
0.001
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i23
0
scientificname_added  i10
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i4
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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