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UMNH Mammals Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 46,034
Media Records: 2,415
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-10-29

With approximately 40,000 specimens, the Museum's mammal collection is representative of the Intermountain West and Great Basin regions of the United States. In addition to study skins, skeletal material and fluid preserved specimens, the collection holds a tissue library of more than 9,000 samples for use in studies of comparative genetics. There are 40 holotypes of subspecies from Utah.

Contacts

Name Eric Rickart
RoleCurator of Vertebrate Zoology
Emailrickart@umnh.utah.edu
Name Katrina Derieg
RoleVertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
Emailkderieg@nhmu.utah.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleCoordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Eric Rickart
RoleCurator of Vertebrate Zoology
Emailrickart@umnh.utah.edu
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  i45971
99.863
dwc_continent_added  i45920
99.752
geopoint_datum_error  i45569
98.99
dwc_datasetid_added  i38398
83.412
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i38398
83.412
dwc_taxonid_added  i38398
83.412
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i38398
83.412
gbif_canonicalname_added  i38398
83.412
gbif_genericname_added  i38398
83.412
gbif_taxon_corrected  i38398
83.412
gbif_vernacularname_added  i38385
83.384
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i38230
83.047
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i38065
82.689
dwc_multimedia_added  i37703
81.903
gbif_reference_added  i29872
64.891
geopoint_low_precision  i1635
3.552
dwc_specificepithet_added  i204
0.443
taxon_match_failed  i166
0.361
dwc_continent_replaced  i47
0.102
dwc_order_replaced  i22
0.048
rev_geocode_eez  i20
0.043
dwc_kingdom_added  i14
0.03
dwc_phylum_added  i14
0.03
rev_geocode_mismatch  i10
0.022
rev_geocode_corrected  i7
0.015
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i7
0.015
dwc_family_replaced  i6
0.013
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i4
0.009
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i3
0.007
dwc_country_replaced  i2
0.004
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.004
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_failure  i1
0.002