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DMNS Mammal Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 21,321
Media Records: 1,630
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Mammal Collection currently consists of approximately 21,000 specimens, which includes 20,000+ cataloged specimens. The collection spans 1870 to the present, is worldwide in coverage, and includes specimens from the three major extant mammalian lineages (monotremes, marsupials, and placentals) distributed across 21 orders, 266 genera, and 381 species. The collection’s primary strength is its focus on the southern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. Approximately 82% of the collection is from the western United States, with specimens from Colorado (73%) representing the largest percentage. Small mammals, such as shrews, rodents, lagomorphs, and bats, constitute the majority (84%) of specimens in the collection. The composition of the collection is primarily study skins and skeletal material, with a growing wet collection. High-quality specimen data, frozen tissues, and parasites are associated with most of the specimens archived since 2006.

Contacts

Name John Demboski
RoleCurator of Vertebrate Zoology
Emailjohn.demboski@dmns.org
Name John Demboski
RoleCurator of Vertebrate Zoology
Emailjohn.demboski@dmns.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Jeffrey Stephenson
RoleCollections Manager, Department of Zoology
Emailjeff.stephenson@dmns.org
Name Andrew Doll
RoleAssistant Collections Manager, Department of Zoology
Emailandrew.doll@dmns.org
Name John Demboski
RoleCurator of Vertebrate Zoology
Emailjohn.demboski@dmns.org
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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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99.569
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99.569
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99.569
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99.569
gbif_canonicalname_added  i21229
99.569
gbif_genericname_added  i21229
99.569
gbif_taxon_corrected  i21229
99.569
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i21210
99.479
gbif_vernacularname_added  i21082
98.879
dwc_multimedia_added  i20894
97.997
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i20833
97.711
dwc_continent_added  i20811
97.608
gbif_reference_added  i20203
94.756
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i16599
77.853
geopoint_datum_error  i12983
60.893
geopoint_datum_missing  i7249
33.999
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i4749
22.274
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i713
3.344
dwc_order_replaced  i467
2.19
dwc_continent_replaced  i463
2.172
dwc_genus_replaced  i460
2.157
taxon_match_failed  i355
1.665
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i160
0.75
rev_geocode_eez  i136
0.638
dwc_family_replaced  i60
0.281
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i18
0.084
dwc_kingdom_added  i14
0.066
dwc_phylum_added  i14
0.066
dwc_family_added  i12
0.056
rev_geocode_mismatch  i10
0.047
dwc_class_replaced  i8
0.038
dwc_genus_added  i8
0.038
dwc_phylum_replaced  i8
0.038
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i7
0.033
dwc_country_replaced  i2
0.009
rev_geocode_failure  i2
0.009
geopoint_0_coord  i1
0.005
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