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NCSM Herpetology Collection

Specimen Records: 96,941
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Amphibians and Reptiles Unit contains approximately 262,000 specimens (81,350+ lots), and is one of the largest and most complete regional collections in the United States. Founded in the late 1800s, the collection consists of approximately 80% North Carolina material, although 47 states, 57 countries, and more than 640 species are represented. Other states with substantial representation include California, Delaware, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Other countries with substantial representation include Laos, Vietnam, and Gabon, and the international focus of the collection is expanding. Important recent acquisitions include large collections from Duke and Virginia Commonwealth Universities, the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Marine Sciences, and the personal collection of the late E. E. Brown of Davidson College. The collection houses fluid-preserved specimens, skeletons, skins, tissues for molecular analyses, and other materials. Photographic vouchers, field notes, other museums’ records of North Carolina holdings, and specimen data sheets are also maintained as part of the materials documenting these resources.

Contacts

Name Ben Norton
RoleHead of Technology
Emailben.norton@naturalsciences.org
Name Bryan Stuart
RoleCurator of Herpetology
Emailbryan.stuart@naturalsciences.org
Name Ben Norton
RoleHead of Technology
Emailben.norton@naturalsciences.org
Name Bryan Stuart
RoleCurator of Herpetology
Emailbryan.stuart@naturalsciences.org
Name Bryan Stuart
RoleCurator of Herpetology
Emailbryan.stuart@naturalsciences.org
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  • 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
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99.943
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98.91
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98.91
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98.91
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98.91
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98.91
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98.91
gbif_taxon_corrected  i95884
98.91
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97.992
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i93867
96.829
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95.727
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91.724
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76.959
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43.946
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13.823
dwc_genus_replaced  i5567
5.743
taxon_match_failed  i5438
5.61
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5.277
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5.076
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3.731
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3.731
geopoint_low_precision  i2191
2.26
rev_geocode_eez  i2008
2.071
dwc_family_replaced  i1683
1.736
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1.433
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i191
0.197
rev_geocode_mismatch  i166
0.171
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0.156
dwc_continent_added  i80
0.083
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i44
0.045
dwc_country_replaced  i30
0.031
dwc_continent_replaced  i29
0.03
rev_geocode_corrected  i13
0.013
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i10
0.01
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i6
0.006
rev_geocode_failure  i6
0.006
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i3
0.003
dwc_order_replaced  i2
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.002
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