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Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections - TCWC Vertebrates

Specimen Records: 264,365
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-12-13

The Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (formerly the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection - TCWC), is the natural history collection maintained by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University in College Station Texas.

Contacts

Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailhlprestridge@tamu.edu
Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailhlprestridge@tamu.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailbrtc@tamu.edu
Name Toby Hibbitts
RoleCurator
Emailthibbitts@tamu.edu
Name Heather Prestridge
RoleCurator
Emailhlprestridge@tamu.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
dwc_datasetid_added  i261165
98.79
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i261165
98.79
dwc_taxonid_added  i261165
98.79
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i261165
98.79
gbif_canonicalname_added  i261165
98.79
gbif_genericname_added  i261165
98.79
gbif_taxon_corrected  i261165
98.79
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i259521
98.168
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i252002
95.324
gbif_vernacularname_added  i249832
94.503
gbif_reference_added  i244487
92.481
dwc_multimedia_added  i211666
80.066
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i190525
72.069
geopoint_datum_error  i180339
68.216
dwc_kingdom_added  i101221
38.288
dwc_phylum_added  i101221
38.288
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i97325
36.815
dwc_order_replaced  i40536
15.333
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i31680
11.983
rev_geocode_eez  i28078
10.621
taxon_match_failed  i20736
7.844
dwc_genus_replaced  i18946
7.167
dwc_family_replaced  i12070
4.566
geopoint_low_precision  i12015
4.545
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i9548
3.612
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2888
1.092
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i2196
0.831
rev_geocode_corrected  i1230
0.465
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i823
0.311
dwc_continent_replaced  i677
0.256
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i657
0.249
dwc_country_replaced  i474
0.179
rev_geocode_failure  i329
0.124
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i287
0.109
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i267
0.101
dwc_genus_added  i210
0.079
rev_geocode_both_sign  i139
0.053
dwc_phylum_replaced  i95
0.036
dwc_class_replaced  i75
0.028
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i50
0.019
dwc_family_added  i9
0.003
datecollected_bounds  i6
0.002
dwc_class_added  i6
0.002
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i5
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i5
0.002
dwc_order_added  i3
0.001
dwc_specificepithet_added  i2
0.001
geopoint_0_coord  i2
0.001
dwc_continent_added  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i1
0
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