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Canadian Museum of Nature Mollusc Collection

Specimen Records: 54,688
Media Records: 475
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-10-16

The Canadian Museum of Nature's Mollusc Collection is the largest, most comprehensive collection of molluscs in Canada. The museum's 165,000 lots are divided into two sections: dry shell collection and wet collection. Overall, the collection represents more than 350 families, collected in over 12 countries and numerous oceans.

Contacts

Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
Name Rob Blades
RoleDigital Collections Information Manager
Emailrblades@nature.ca
Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
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  i52604
96.189
dwc_continent_added  i47331
86.547
geopoint_datum_missing  i41163
75.269
rev_geocode_failure  i37460
68.498
rev_geocode_mismatch  i35955
65.746
dwc_datasetid_replaced  i35815
65.49
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i35815
65.49
dwc_taxonid_added  i35815
65.49
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i35815
65.49
gbif_canonicalname_added  i35815
65.49
gbif_genericname_added  i35815
65.49
gbif_taxon_corrected  i35815
65.49
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i30226
55.27
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i29881
54.639
gbif_reference_added  i29301
53.578
dwc_multimedia_added  i22369
40.903
geopoint_low_precision  i15690
28.69
dwc_order_replaced  i13053
23.868
gbif_vernacularname_added  i11108
20.312
taxon_match_failed  i6268
11.461
dwc_genus_added  i2090
3.822
dwc_order_added  i2007
3.67
dwc_class_replaced  i1937
3.542
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1936
3.54
dwc_family_added  i1869
3.418
dwc_family_replaced  i1194
2.183
rev_geocode_eez  i1147
2.097
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i661
1.209
dwc_specificepithet_added  i229
0.419
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i171
0.313
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i87
0.159
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i63
0.115
geopoint_similar_coord  i39
0.071
dwc_country_replaced  i35
0.064
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i34
0.062
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i34
0.062
rev_geocode_corrected  i27
0.049
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i25
0.046
dwc_genus_replaced  i14
0.026
geopoint_bounds  i2
0.004
datecollected_bounds  i1
0.002
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i1
0.002
dwc_phylum_added  i1
0.002
geopoint_pre_flip  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_both_sign  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1
0.002