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TTU Mammals Collection

Specimen Records: 115,365
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2017-01-08

The NSRL’s recent mammal collection houses more than 118,000 research specimens. Nearly 80% of these specimens are in the form of dried skin and/or skull and skeletal material preparations, while the rest are fluid-preserved specimens housed in a separate collection area. The dried skin and skeletal preparations are stored in 732 metal cabinets. These cabinets are specially designed to keep the specimens safe from UV light, dust, occasional insect pests, and other harmful agents. Every specimen is labeled with information concerning its species, sex, collector, preparator, collecting location, and other pieces of collecting data. Each specimen has also been given a catalog number and its data verified and entered into a searchable computer database. All specimens of the same species are stored together, organized by country, state, county, and finally catalog number. Groups of related species are housed in adjacent cases. As with the Genetic Resources Collection, the majority of these specimens in this collection are bar coded and a project is underway to bar code the rest to facilitate the retrieval of associated data and to reduce time and effort spent by the NSRL staff in maintaining an organized collection.

Contacts

Name Heath Garner
RoleCurator of Collections
Emailheath.garner@ttu.edu
Name Heath Garner
RoleCurator of Collections
Emailheath.garner@ttu.edu
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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
dwc_datasetid_added  i114577
99.317
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i114577
99.317
dwc_taxonid_added  i114577
99.317
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i114577
99.317
gbif_canonicalname_added  i114577
99.317
gbif_genericname_added  i114577
99.317
gbif_taxon_corrected  i114577
99.317
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i114560
99.302
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i114210
98.999
gbif_vernacularname_added  i111331
96.503
gbif_reference_added  i109755
95.137
dwc_multimedia_added  i96233
83.416
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i93969
81.454
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i35214
30.524
geopoint_datum_error  i7522
6.52
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i4880
4.23
dwc_genus_replaced  i3163
2.742
taxon_match_failed  i2936
2.545
rev_geocode_eez  i2617
2.268
geopoint_low_precision  i1247
1.081
rev_geocode_mismatch  i904
0.784
dwc_family_replaced  i754
0.654
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i503
0.436
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i442
0.383
rev_geocode_corrected  i321
0.278
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i267
0.231
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i249
0.216
dwc_country_replaced  i206
0.179
dwc_continent_replaced  i118
0.102
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i52
0.045
rev_geocode_failure  i19
0.016
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i3
0.003
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i2
0.002
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