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Canadian Museum of Nature Parasite Collection

Specimen Records: 15,899
Media Records: 2,489
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-03-25

The Canadian Museum of Nature's Parasite Collection, which holds approximately 50,000 lots, contains large numbers of specimens from the Canadian Wildlife Service, Institute of Parasitology (McGill University) and the former Arctic Biological Station (Fisheries and Oceans Canada).

Contacts

Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
Name Rob Blades
RoleDigital Collections Information Manager
Emailrblades@nature.ca
Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
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  i14188
89.238
geopoint_datum_missing  i14000
88.056
dwc_continent_added  i12625
79.408
rev_geocode_eez  i5194
32.669
dwc_datasetid_added  i3487
21.932
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3487
21.932
dwc_taxonid_added  i3487
21.932
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3487
21.932
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3487
21.932
gbif_genericname_added  i3487
21.932
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3487
21.932
gbif_reference_added  i2739
17.227
geopoint_low_precision  i2655
16.699
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2039
12.825
dwc_order_replaced  i1340
8.428
dwc_class_replaced  i1255
7.894
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i1193
7.504
dwc_multimedia_added  i1039
6.535
taxon_match_failed  i602
3.786
dwc_phylum_replaced  i462
2.906
gbif_vernacularname_added  i326
2.05
dwc_family_replaced  i273
1.717
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i238
1.497
dwc_family_added  i155
0.975
dwc_genus_added  i125
0.786
dwc_order_added  i122
0.767
rev_geocode_mismatch  i108
0.679
dwc_country_replaced  i94
0.591
dwc_class_added  i77
0.484
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i75
0.472
dwc_specificepithet_added  i63
0.396
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i47
0.296
dwc_genus_replaced  i44
0.277
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i26
0.164
rev_geocode_failure  i17
0.107
rev_geocode_corrected  i11
0.069
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i11
0.069
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i5
0.031
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i2
0.013