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University of Nebraska State Museum Herpetology Collection

Specimen Records: 18,943
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2021-03-02

The collection of amphibians and reptiles was salvaged, organized, and cataloged by Dr. John D. Lynch prior to being moved into UNSM in the early 1970s. Early collections include those of Lawrence Bruner from Nebraska in the 1880s and Argentina in the 1890s. G.E Hudson collected extensively in the 1930s and produced "The Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska" (1942). Lynch and others continued collecting and depositing regional specimens to the collections. Royce Ballinger, Lynch, and Geoffrey Smith produced "Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska" (2010). Also, distributions in Dan Fogell’s 2010 "A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska" are based largely on these collections. In 1999 the amphibian and reptile collections of the University of South Dakota were transferred to and incorporated into the UNSM collections. The collection today totals over 18,900 specimens, primarily from Nebraska and South Dakota.

Contacts

Name Thomas Labedz
RoleCollection Manager
Emailtlabedz1@unl.edu
Name Thomas Labedz
RoleCollection Manager
Emailtlabedz1@unl.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Thomas Labedz
RoleCollection Manager
Emailtlabedz1@unl.edu
Name Robert Zink
RoleCurator
Emailrzink2@unl.edu
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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
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99.995
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99.989
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99.989
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99.989
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99.989
gbif_canonicalname_added  i18941
99.989
gbif_genericname_added  i18941
99.989
gbif_taxon_corrected  i18941
99.989
gbif_vernacularname_added  i18904
99.794
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i18901
99.778
dwc_multimedia_added  i18112
95.613
gbif_reference_added  i17334
91.506
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i15848
83.662
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i10199
53.84
dwc_genus_replaced  i7136
37.671
geopoint_datum_error  i4587
24.215
geopoint_low_precision  i4487
23.687
taxon_match_failed  i3074
16.228
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i2662
14.053
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1971
10.405
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i82
0.433
dwc_family_replaced  i54
0.285
rev_geocode_corrected  i47
0.248
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i47
0.248
rev_geocode_mismatch  i47
0.248
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i12
0.063
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i3
0.016
dwc_continent_replaced  i1
0.005
rev_geocode_eez  i1
0.005
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