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SDNHM Herpetology Collection

Specimen Records: 76,325
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2018-04-12

The San Diego Natural History Museum Department of Herpetology focuses on the study of amphibians and reptiles. Resources are available to scientists to help better understand amphibian and reptile biology and conserve species when their existence is threatened. The great diversity of amphibian and reptile species is preserved for scientific research in the form of alcohol-preserved and skeletal specimens. The herpetology collection holds over 76,000 catalogued specimens (73,300 fluid-preserved specimens and 3,100 skeletons with 212 primary and 500 secondary types) dating back to the 1890s. The collection has been built over the past century and is actively being added to today. All cataloged specimens are computer databased which allows for any combination of taxonomic and geographic records to be searched.

Contacts

Name Bradford Hollingsworth
RoleCurator of Herpetology
Emailbhollingsworth@sdnhm.org
Name Bradford Hollingsworth
RoleCurator of Herpetology
Emailbhollingsworth@sdnhm.org
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Ray Garcia
RoleWeb Applications Programmer
Emailrgarcia@sdnhm.org
Name Bradford Hollingsworth
RoleCurator of Herpetology
Emailbhollingsworth@sdnhm.org
  • Data Corrected
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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
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97.918
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97.918
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97.918
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i74736
97.918
gbif_canonicalname_added  i74736
97.918
gbif_genericname_added  i74736
97.918
gbif_taxon_corrected  i74736
97.918
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i73367
96.124
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i73193
95.896
gbif_vernacularname_added  i68760
90.088
gbif_reference_added  i68755
90.082
dwc_multimedia_added  i57539
75.387
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i37647
49.325
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i27190
35.624
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i14546
19.058
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i10537
13.805
geopoint_low_precision  i6854
8.98
rev_geocode_eez  i4447
5.826
taxon_match_failed  i3024
3.962
dwc_family_replaced  i796
1.043
geopoint_datum_error  i602
0.789
dwc_genus_replaced  i485
0.635
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i263
0.345
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i132
0.173
rev_geocode_mismatch  i130
0.17
dwc_continent_replaced  i51
0.067
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i46
0.06
dwc_country_replaced  i29
0.038
dwc_specificepithet_added  i8
0.01
rev_geocode_failure  i2
0.003
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