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CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ)

Specimen Records: 267,993
Media Records: 87,069
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-11-25

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  i251634
93.896
dwc_datasetid_added  i214478
80.031
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i214478
80.031
dwc_taxonid_added  i214478
80.031
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i214478
80.031
gbif_canonicalname_added  i214478
80.031
gbif_genericname_added  i214478
80.031
gbif_taxon_corrected  i214478
80.031
gbif_reference_added  i170679
63.688
geopoint_datum_missing  i126706
47.28
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i99716
37.208
rev_geocode_eez  i96714
36.088
dwc_multimedia_added  i77033
28.744
dwc_taxonrank_added  i75481
28.165
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i64101
23.919
gbif_vernacularname_added  i62092
23.169
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i60278
22.492
taxon_match_failed  i44211
16.497
dwc_order_replaced  i38878
14.507
dwc_family_replaced  i19412
7.243
dwc_genus_added  i16009
5.974
dwc_genus_replaced  i13786
5.144
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i11373
4.244
dwc_class_replaced  i10888
4.063
dwc_continent_replaced  i10279
3.836
dwc_order_added  i7549
2.817
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i3907
1.458
dwc_family_added  i3690
1.377
dwc_phylum_replaced  i3355
1.252
dwc_country_replaced  i1936
0.722
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1448
0.54
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1180
0.44
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i1122
0.419
rev_geocode_failure  i1040
0.388
dwc_class_added  i687
0.256
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i486
0.181
rev_geocode_corrected  i319
0.119
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i195
0.073
dwc_specificepithet_added  i186
0.069
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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