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CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ)

Specimen Records: 266,721
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-10-29

The electronic catalog of the invertebrate zoology collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Contacts

Name Christina Piotrowski
RoleIZ Collections Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology
EmailCPiotrowski@calacademy.org
Name Jon Fong
RoleProgrammer
Emailjfong@calacademy.org
Name Christina Piotrowski
RoleIZ Collections Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology
EmailCPiotrowski@calacademy.org
  • 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  i250417
93.887
dwc_datasetid_added  i213503
80.047
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i213503
80.047
dwc_taxonid_added  i213503
80.047
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i213503
80.047
gbif_canonicalname_added  i213503
80.047
gbif_genericname_added  i213503
80.047
gbif_taxon_corrected  i213503
80.047
gbif_reference_added  i169874
63.69
geopoint_datum_missing  i126694
47.501
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i99194
37.19
rev_geocode_eez  i96678
36.247
dwc_multimedia_added  i76660
28.742
dwc_taxonrank_added  i75185
28.189
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i63780
23.913
gbif_vernacularname_added  i61835
23.183
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i59989
22.491
taxon_match_failed  i43878
16.451
dwc_order_replaced  i38401
14.397
dwc_family_replaced  i19255
7.219
dwc_genus_added  i16005
6.001
dwc_genus_replaced  i13671
5.126
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i11315
4.242
dwc_class_replaced  i10885
4.081
dwc_continent_replaced  i10235
3.837
dwc_order_added  i7549
2.83
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i3907
1.465
dwc_family_added  i3690
1.383
dwc_phylum_replaced  i3352
1.257
dwc_country_replaced  i1934
0.725
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1448
0.543
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1179
0.442
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i1121
0.42
rev_geocode_failure  i1040
0.39
dwc_class_added  i687
0.258
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i483
0.181
rev_geocode_corrected  i319
0.12
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i195
0.073
dwc_specificepithet_added  i186
0.07
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i184
0.069
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i109
0.041
datecollected_bounds  i39
0.015
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i12
0.004
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i11
0.004
dwc_continent_added  i4
0.001
dwc_phylum_added  i4
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i1
0
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