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SIO Marine Vertebrate Collection

Specimen Records: 124,997
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2020-07-25

The Marine Vertebrate Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography maintains approximately 2 million alcohol-preserved specimens in over 120,000 lots, representing more than 5,600 species of fishes. The Collection maintains worldwide holdings of deep-sea and pelagic fishes as well as extensive holdings of shore fishes from the entire eastern Pacific. The Collection includes primary types of over 200 species (type catalog), skeletal preparations (both dried and cleared-and-stained) for over 1,000 species (osteology catalog), otoliths from approximately 1,100 species (otolith collection), and tissues for DNA from over 1,200 species. Collection data for approximately 110,000 lots are available on a searchable database. The Marine Vertebrate Collection supports scientific research by providing specimens for studies on the taxonomy, evolution, and ecology of fishes. Specimens are available for examination at Scripps and for loan to researchers at recognized institutions (loan policy). The Marine Vertebrate Collection also plays an integral role in the support of graduate courses and research at Scripps.

Contacts

Name Ben Frable
RoleCollection Manager
Emailbfrable@ucsd.edu
Name Ben Frable
RoleCollection Manager
Emailbfrable@ucsd.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Philip Hastings
RoleCurator
Emailphastings@ucsd.edu
Name HJ Walker
RoleEmeritus Collection Manager
Emailhjwalker@ucsd.edu
Name Ben Frable
RoleCollection Manager
Emailbfrable@ucsd.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  i122832
98.268
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i122832
98.268
dwc_taxonid_added  i122832
98.268
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i122832
98.268
gbif_canonicalname_added  i122832
98.268
gbif_genericname_added  i122832
98.268
gbif_taxon_corrected  i122832
98.268
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i122241
97.795
gbif_reference_added  i122029
97.626
geopoint_datum_error  i120652
96.524
gbif_vernacularname_added  i116398
93.121
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i79772
63.819
rev_geocode_eez  i75529
60.425
dwc_multimedia_added  i73224
58.581
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i60014
48.012
geopoint_low_precision  i58199
46.56
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i56979
45.584
rev_geocode_failure  i27062
21.65
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i7241
5.793
taxon_match_failed  i5116
4.093
rev_geocode_mismatch  i4967
3.974
dwc_order_replaced  i2627
2.102
dwc_family_replaced  i2504
2.003
dwc_genus_replaced  i2307
1.846
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i778
0.622
dwc_continent_replaced  i717
0.574
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i164
0.131
dwc_genus_added  i118
0.094
geopoint_0_coord  i91
0.073
rev_geocode_corrected  i49
0.039
dwc_country_replaced  i39
0.031
dwc_continent_added  i34
0.027
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i34
0.027
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i27
0.022
dwc_phylum_replaced  i25
0.02
dwc_class_replaced  i24
0.019
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i19
0.015
rev_geocode_flip  i3
0.002
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i2
0.002
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