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Oregon State University Herpetological Collection

Specimen Records: 58,475
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2015-07-10

The herpetological research collection at OSU is housed in Cordley Hall (S. J. Arnold, Curator). The research collection consists of more than 50,000 ethanol-preserved amphibians and reptiles, and approximately 20,000 frozen tissue samples. A smaller series of preserved amphibians and reptiles is part of the Vertebrate Teaching Collection (R. T. Mason, Curator) and is also housed in Cordley Hall.

Contacts

Name Stevan Arnold
RoleCurator of Amphibians and Reptiles
Emailarnolds@bcc.orst.edu
Name Stevan Arnold
RoleCurator of Amphibians and Reptiles
Emailarnolds@bcc.orst.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleProgrammer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleCoordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Tara Chestnut
RoleAssistant Curator
Emailtarachestnut@gmail.com
Name Stevan Arnold
RoleCurator of Amphibians and Reptiles
Emailarnolds@bcc.orst.edu
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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  i57139
97.715
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i57139
97.715
dwc_taxonid_added  i57139
97.715
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i57139
97.715
gbif_canonicalname_added  i57139
97.715
gbif_genericname_added  i57139
97.715
gbif_taxon_corrected  i57139
97.715
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i57090
97.631
gbif_vernacularname_added  i57040
97.546
gbif_reference_added  i56356
96.376
dwc_multimedia_added  i49839
85.231
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i45141
77.197
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i37018
63.306
geopoint_datum_error  i30377
51.949
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i24620
42.103
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i18112
30.974
rev_geocode_eez  i6193
10.591
taxon_match_failed  i5845
9.996
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i4567
7.81
dwc_genus_replaced  i1219
2.085
geopoint_low_precision  i1213
2.074
dwc_family_replaced  i923
1.578
rev_geocode_mismatch  i11
0.019
rev_geocode_failure  i2
0.003
datecollected_bounds  i1
0.002
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