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Iowa State University Fishes Collection

Specimen Records: 5,562
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-03-24

Collection of fishes at Iowa State University, Ames, IA; ~5,000 lots, primarily from Iowa but including small numbers of lots other areas; e.g., CA, DE, FL, MI, MO, NH & MX. Collection was started in the late 1930s by Reeve M. Bailey during his time at Iowa State from 1939-1944. Most lots are from the 1930s and 1940s, but significant numbers are from the 1980s and 2010s.

Contacts

Name John Olson
RoleCollection volunteer
Emailjro@iastate.edu
Name Kevin Roe
RoleCurator
Emailkjroe@iastate.edu
Name John Olson
RoleCollection volunteer
Emailjro@iastate.edu
Name Kevin Roe
RoleCurator
Emailkjroe@iastate.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Olson
RoleCollection volunteer
Emailjro@iastate.edu
Name Kevin Roe
RoleCurator
Emailkjroe@iastate.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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i5559
99.946
dwc_datasetid_added  i4980
89.536
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i4980
89.536
dwc_taxonid_added  i4980
89.536
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i4980
89.536
gbif_canonicalname_added  i4980
89.536
gbif_genericname_added  i4980
89.536
gbif_taxon_corrected  i4980
89.536
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i4979
89.518
gbif_reference_added  i4977
89.482
gbif_vernacularname_added  i4962
89.213
dwc_multimedia_added  i4210
75.692
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i3077
55.322
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i2750
49.443
taxon_match_failed  i775
13.934
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i125
2.247
rev_geocode_eez  i45
0.809
dwc_family_replaced  i25
0.449
dwc_genus_replaced  i24
0.431
dwc_kingdom_added  i24
0.431
dwc_phylum_added  i24
0.431
geopoint_low_precision  i19
0.342
geopoint_datum_missing  i17
0.306
rev_geocode_mismatch  i5
0.09
dwc_order_replaced  i3
0.054
dwc_class_replaced  i1
0.018
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