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NMNH Material Samples (USNM)

Specimen Records: 340,262
Media Records: 5,703,002
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-22

Genetic Sample data for GGBN and other users.

Contacts

Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics and Data Science Center, Digital Stewardship Team
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics and Data Science Center, Digital Stewardship Team
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics and Data Science Center, Digital Stewardship Team
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.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  i311645
91.59
dwc_datasetid_added  i247519
72.744
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i247519
72.744
dwc_taxonid_added  i247519
72.744
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i247519
72.744
gbif_canonicalname_added  i247519
72.744
gbif_genericname_added  i247519
72.744
gbif_taxon_corrected  i247519
72.744
dwc_taxonrank_added  i236181
69.412
geopoint_datum_missing  i235313
69.156
gbif_reference_added  i178624
52.496
dwc_continent_added  i138171
40.607
gbif_vernacularname_added  i134908
39.648
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i128840
37.865
dwc_continent_replaced  i125190
36.792
dwc_multimedia_added  i123310
36.24
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i109260
32.111
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i73626
21.638
rev_geocode_eez  i66103
19.427
geopoint_low_precision  i43016
12.642
taxon_match_failed  i34685
10.194
dwc_class_replaced  i25468
7.485
dwc_phylum_added  i24363
7.16
dwc_family_replaced  i22104
6.496
geopoint_datum_error  i21910
6.439
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i16127
4.74
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i11325
3.328
dwc_genus_replaced  i9305
2.735
dwc_order_added  i8751
2.572
rev_geocode_failure  i6520
1.916
dwc_order_replaced  i5075
1.491
rev_geocode_mismatch  i4187
1.231
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i3938
1.157
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i3408
1.002
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2827
0.831
dwc_kingdom_added  i2436
0.716
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i2179
0.64
dwc_country_replaced  i1952
0.574
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1474
0.433
dwc_family_added  i1452
0.427
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i1057
0.311
dwc_class_added  i1043
0.307
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i947
0.278
rev_geocode_corrected  i889
0.261
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i441
0.13
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i312
0.092
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i285
0.084
dwc_specificepithet_added  i257
0.076
rev_geocode_both_sign  i160
0.047
dwc_genus_added  i108
0.032
geopoint_pre_flip  i52
0.015
geopoint_similar_coord  i24
0.007
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i22
0.006
geopoint_0_coord  i2
0.001
geopoint_bounds  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0
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