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CAS Invertebrate Zoology (IZ)

Specimen Records: 262,935
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

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  i246642
93.803
dwc_datasetid_added  i210311
79.986
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i210311
79.986
dwc_taxonid_added  i210311
79.986
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i210311
79.986
gbif_canonicalname_added  i210311
79.986
gbif_genericname_added  i210311
79.986
gbif_taxon_corrected  i210311
79.986
gbif_reference_added  i168005
63.896
geopoint_datum_missing  i126478
48.102
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i97555
37.102
rev_geocode_eez  i95522
36.329
dwc_multimedia_added  i75128
28.573
dwc_taxonrank_added  i74392
28.293
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i62734
23.859
gbif_vernacularname_added  i60179
22.887
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i59068
22.465
taxon_match_failed  i43258
16.452
dwc_order_replaced  i37472
14.251
dwc_family_replaced  i18668
7.1
dwc_genus_added  i15901
6.048
dwc_genus_replaced  i13265
5.045
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i11055
4.204
dwc_class_replaced  i10872
4.135
dwc_continent_replaced  i9970
3.792
dwc_order_added  i7399
2.814
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i3906
1.486
dwc_family_added  i3675
1.398
dwc_phylum_replaced  i3339
1.27
dwc_country_replaced  i1932
0.735
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1432
0.545
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1176
0.447
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i1115
0.424
rev_geocode_failure  i1035
0.394
dwc_class_added  i686
0.261
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i483
0.184
rev_geocode_corrected  i318
0.121
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
0.041
datecollected_bounds  i39
0.015
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i12
0.005
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i11
0.004
dwc_continent_added  i4
0.002
dwc_phylum_added  i4
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i2
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i1
0
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