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UMNH Mammals Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 45,771
Media Records: 2,415
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

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
  • 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  i45708
99.862
dwc_continent_added  i45655
99.747
geopoint_datum_error  i45314
99.002
dwc_datasetid_added  i38169
83.391
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i38169
83.391
dwc_taxonid_added  i38169
83.391
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i38169
83.391
gbif_canonicalname_added  i38169
83.391
gbif_genericname_added  i38169
83.391
gbif_taxon_corrected  i38169
83.391
gbif_vernacularname_added  i38156
83.363
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i38002
83.026
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i37836
82.664
dwc_multimedia_added  i37474
81.873
gbif_reference_added  i29663
64.807
geopoint_low_precision  i1635
3.572
dwc_specificepithet_added  i204
0.446
taxon_match_failed  i146
0.319
dwc_continent_replaced  i47
0.103
dwc_order_replaced  i22
0.048
rev_geocode_eez  i19
0.042
dwc_kingdom_added  i14
0.031
dwc_phylum_added  i14
0.031
dwc_family_replaced  i6
0.013
rev_geocode_mismatch  i6
0.013
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i4
0.009
rev_geocode_corrected  i4
0.009
rev_geocode_lon_sign  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
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