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CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ)

Specimen Records: 261,435
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-05-23

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  i245212
93.795
dwc_datasetid_added  i209081
79.974
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i209081
79.974
dwc_taxonid_added  i209081
79.974
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i209081
79.974
gbif_canonicalname_added  i209081
79.974
gbif_genericname_added  i209081
79.974
gbif_taxon_corrected  i209081
79.974
gbif_reference_added  i167631
64.12
geopoint_datum_missing  i126347
48.328
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i96768
37.014
rev_geocode_eez  i95433
36.504
dwc_multimedia_added  i74701
28.573
dwc_taxonrank_added  i73854
28.249
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i62450
23.887
gbif_vernacularname_added  i59655
22.818
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i58964
22.554
taxon_match_failed  i43086
16.481
dwc_order_replaced  i37137
14.205
dwc_family_replaced  i18119
6.931
dwc_genus_added  i15482
5.922
dwc_genus_replaced  i13180
5.041
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i10998
4.207
dwc_class_replaced  i10867
4.157
dwc_continent_replaced  i9793
3.746
dwc_order_added  i7395
2.829
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i3897
1.491
dwc_family_added  i3599
1.377
dwc_phylum_replaced  i3322
1.271
dwc_country_replaced  i1923
0.736
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1431
0.547
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1176
0.45
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i1101
0.421
rev_geocode_failure  i1035
0.396
dwc_class_added  i672
0.257
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i483
0.185
rev_geocode_corrected  i318
0.122
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i194
0.074
dwc_specificepithet_added  i186
0.071
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i184
0.07
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i109
0.042
datecollected_bounds  i42
0.016
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i12
0.005
dwc_continent_added  i4
0.002
dwc_phylum_added  i4
0.002
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i3
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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