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CAS Botany (BOT)

Specimen Records: 1,056,927
Media Records: 853,470
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The electronic catalog of the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Contacts

Name Emily Magnaghi
RoleInterim Collections Manager, Botany
Emailemagnaghi@calacademy.org
Name Jon Fong
RoleCuratorial Assistant/Programmer
Emailjfong@calacademy.org
Name Emily Magnaghi
RoleInterim Collections Manager, Botany
Emailemagnaghi@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  i1053614
99.687
dwc_datasetid_added  i914229
86.499
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i914229
86.499
dwc_taxonid_added  i914229
86.499
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i914229
86.499
gbif_canonicalname_added  i914229
86.499
gbif_genericname_added  i914229
86.499
gbif_taxon_corrected  i914229
86.499
dwc_phylum_replaced  i813888
77.005
gbif_vernacularname_added  i796703
75.379
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i700267
66.255
gbif_reference_added  i689957
65.28
dwc_multimedia_added  i651725
61.662
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i520516
49.248
taxon_match_failed  i400038
37.849
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i195291
18.477
dwc_order_replaced  i151800
14.362
geopoint_datum_missing  i141825
13.419
dwc_family_replaced  i91976
8.702
dwc_order_added  i85766
8.115
dwc_class_added  i85719
8.11
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i79889
7.559
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i70083
6.631
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i41267
3.904
dwc_genus_replaced  i28657
2.711
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i14506
1.372
dwc_class_replaced  i11836
1.12
rev_geocode_eez  i6563
0.621
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i4158
0.393
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4149
0.393
geopoint_datum_error  i2786
0.264
rev_geocode_mismatch  i2312
0.219
dwc_continent_replaced  i1459
0.138
dwc_genus_added  i1412
0.134
rev_geocode_corrected  i1050
0.099
dwc_country_replaced  i950
0.09
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i881
0.083
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i762
0.072
dwc_specificepithet_added  i476
0.045
rev_geocode_failure  i349
0.033
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i297
0.028
datecollected_bounds  i232
0.022
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i224
0.021
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i51
0.005
geopoint_0_coord  i23
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i18
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i7
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i5
0
rev_geocode_both_sign  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i3
0
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i2
0
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i2
0
geopoint_pre_flip  i2
0
dwc_family_added  i1
0
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