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Natural History Museum (London) Collection Specimens

Specimen Records: 5,502,300
Media Records: 4,793,783
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

Natural History Museum (London) Collection Specimens

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  • 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
dwc_datasetid_added  i3826801
69.549
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3826801
69.549
dwc_taxonid_added  i3826801
69.549
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3826801
69.549
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3826801
69.549
gbif_genericname_added  i3826801
69.549
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3826801
69.549
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3815251
69.339
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i3453259
62.76
dwc_kingdom_added  i3068199
55.762
gbif_reference_added  i2615345
47.532
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2572085
46.746
gbif_vernacularname_added  i2107047
38.294
dwc_multimedia_added  i2007207
36.479
geopoint_datum_missing  i1349601
24.528
taxon_match_failed  i1161987
21.118
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i1076048
19.556
dwc_phylum_added  i1071471
19.473
dwc_class_added  i861043
15.649
dwc_order_added  i550518
10.005
dwc_phylum_replaced  i420293
7.638
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i404345
7.349
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i362033
6.58
dwc_family_added  i252594
4.591
dwc_family_replaced  i236367
4.296
dwc_genus_replaced  i222545
4.045
rev_geocode_eez  i159869
2.905
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i123750
2.249
dwc_order_replaced  i114423
2.08
geopoint_low_precision  i84365
1.533
dwc_specificepithet_added  i77916
1.416
dwc_class_replaced  i69449
1.262
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i42892
0.78
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i39447
0.717
dwc_continent_replaced  i38309
0.696
dwc_country_replaced  i37797
0.687
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i31474
0.572
rev_geocode_failure  i23782
0.432
datecollected_bounds  i18544
0.337
dwc_genus_added  i10361
0.188
rev_geocode_mismatch  i9356
0.17
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i4088
0.074
rev_geocode_corrected  i3296
0.06
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i2904
0.053
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1357
0.025
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i966
0.018
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i911
0.017
rev_geocode_both_sign  i558
0.01
geopoint_0_coord  i474
0.009
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i208
0.004
rev_geocode_flip  i208
0.004
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i201
0.004
geopoint_datum_error  i135
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i47
0.001
geopoint_pre_flip  i38
0.001
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i28
0.001
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i28
0.001
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i23
0
scientificname_added  i10
0
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i4
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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