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Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 28,249
Media Records: 22,778
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

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
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  i21834
77.291
rev_geocode_eez  i19278
68.243
dwc_datasetid_added  i10444
36.971
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i10444
36.971
dwc_taxonid_added  i10444
36.971
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i10444
36.971
dwc_taxonrank_added  i10444
36.971
gbif_canonicalname_added  i10444
36.971
gbif_genericname_added  i10444
36.971
gbif_taxon_corrected  i10444
36.971
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i9676
34.253
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i9279
32.847
dwc_continent_added  i8817
31.212
gbif_reference_added  i8016
28.376
dwc_multimedia_added  i4940
17.487
geopoint_low_precision  i3229
11.43
dwc_order_replaced  i2044
7.236
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1896
6.712
taxon_match_failed  i1585
5.611
dwc_continent_replaced  i1280
4.531
dwc_genus_replaced  i1130
4
dwc_family_replaced  i846
2.995
dwc_genus_added  i700
2.478
dwc_order_added  i648
2.294
dwc_class_replaced  i540
1.912
dwc_phylum_replaced  i534
1.89
dwc_family_added  i460
1.628
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i195
0.69
dwc_specificepithet_added  i136
0.481
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i112
0.396
dwc_class_added  i45
0.159
rev_geocode_failure  i37
0.131
dwc_phylum_added  i28
0.099
dwc_kingdom_added  i27
0.096
rev_geocode_mismatch  i24
0.085
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i15
0.053
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