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Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 27,109
Media Records: 22,779
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-08-21

The Invertebrate Zoology Collection contains over 23,000 catalogued lots of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates and an estimated 10,000 additional lots of uncatalogued specimens.

Contacts

Name Kevin Kocot
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailkmkocot@ua.edu
Name Kevin Kocot
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailkmkocot@gmail.com
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildustymc@gmail.com
Name Brooke Bogan
RoleCollections Manager
Emailbabogan@ua.edu
Name Kevin Kocot
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailkmkocot@ua.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
geopoint_datum_error  i20704
76.373
rev_geocode_eez  i19278
71.113
dwc_datasetid_added  i10169
37.512
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i10169
37.512
dwc_taxonid_added  i10169
37.512
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i10169
37.512
dwc_taxonrank_added  i10169
37.512
gbif_canonicalname_added  i10169
37.512
gbif_genericname_added  i10169
37.512
gbif_taxon_corrected  i10169
37.512
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i9401
34.679
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i8150
30.064
gbif_reference_added  i7741
28.555
dwc_continent_added  i7688
28.36
dwc_multimedia_added  i4666
17.212
geopoint_low_precision  i3229
11.911
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1885
6.953
dwc_order_replaced  i1769
6.526
taxon_match_failed  i1586
5.85
dwc_continent_replaced  i1280
4.722
dwc_genus_replaced  i1130
4.168
dwc_family_replaced  i846
3.121
dwc_genus_added  i700
2.582
dwc_order_added  i649
2.394
dwc_class_replaced  i540
1.992
dwc_phylum_replaced  i534
1.97
dwc_family_added  i460
1.697
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i198
0.73
dwc_specificepithet_added  i125
0.461
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i101
0.373
dwc_class_added  i45
0.166
rev_geocode_failure  i37
0.136
dwc_phylum_added  i28
0.103
dwc_kingdom_added  i27
0.1
rev_geocode_mismatch  i24
0.089
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i15
0.055
rev_geocode_corrected  i5
0.018
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i3
0.011
dwc_country_replaced  i2
0.007
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i2
0.007
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.004
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