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Malacology Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Specimen Records: 508,721
Media Records: 32,786
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-03-25

This database contains records related to about 500,000 lots maintained in the malacology department. at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadephia. These records are derived from detailed computer records for material entering the collection since 1976, and records digitized from the handwritten catalogues, which were started in 1889. an inventory started in 2011 that has recorded the current placement in the collection of more than 412,000 lots, and images of specimens and labels, particularly for type lots. This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers DEB-9249109, DEB-9408267, DEB-9616621, DBI-9728996, DBI-1203605, DBI-1902328, and DBI 2001570. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations presented in this material are only those of the grantees and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Contacts

Name Gary Rosenberg
RolePilsbry Chair of Malacology
Emailgr347@drexel.edu
Name BDIM Account
Rolenone
Emailans_bdim@drexel.edu
Name Robert Noonan
RoleDatabase Programmer
EmailANS_bdim@drexel.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  i468209
92.036
dwc_datasetid_added  i412694
81.124
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i412694
81.124
dwc_taxonid_added  i412694
81.124
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i412694
81.124
gbif_canonicalname_added  i412694
81.124
gbif_genericname_added  i412694
81.124
gbif_taxon_corrected  i412694
81.124
dwc_phylum_added  i412671
81.119
dwc_class_added  i412586
81.103
dwc_family_added  i412206
81.028
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i382859
75.259
dwc_order_added  i353527
69.493
geopoint_datum_missing  i325324
63.949
geopoint_low_precision  i293605
57.714
gbif_reference_added  i276850
54.421
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i263984
51.892
dwc_multimedia_added  i207345
40.758
gbif_vernacularname_added  i185009
36.367
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i169164
33.253
dwc_country_replaced  i150999
29.682
taxon_match_failed  i132696
26.084
rev_geocode_eez  i104591
20.56
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i78200
15.372
dwc_continent_replaced  i76326
15.004
dwc_genus_replaced  i41432
8.144
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6.245
scientificname_added  i7808
1.535
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1.291
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i3622
0.712
rev_geocode_mismatch  i3358
0.66
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i446
0.088
rev_geocode_failure  i327
0.064
geopoint_similar_coord  i200
0.039
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i173
0.034
geopoint_0_coord  i151
0.03
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i107
0.021
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0.021
dwc_taxonrank_added  i72
0.014
datecollected_bounds  i40
0.008
rev_geocode_corrected  i7
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i3
0.001
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i2
0
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i2
0
dwc_continent_added  i1
0
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0