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Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 24,923
Media Records: 14,603
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-18

The Invertebrate Zoology Collection contains over 23,000 catalogued lots of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates and an estimated 10,000 additional lots of uncatalogued specimens.

Contacts

Name Kevin Kocot
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailkmkocot@ua.edu
Name Kevin Kocot
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailkmkocot@gmail.com
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildustymc@gmail.com
Name Brooke Bogan
RoleCollections Manager
Emailbabogan@ua.edu
Name Kevin Kocot
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailkmkocot@ua.edu
  • 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
geopoint_datum_error  i18829
75.549
rev_geocode_eez  i17431
69.939
dwc_datasetid_added  i9229
37.03
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i9229
37.03
dwc_taxonid_added  i9229
37.03
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i9229
37.03
dwc_taxonrank_added  i9229
37.03
gbif_canonicalname_added  i9229
37.03
gbif_genericname_added  i9229
37.03
gbif_taxon_corrected  i9229
37.03
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i8719
34.984
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i7800
31.296
dwc_continent_added  i7337
29.439
gbif_reference_added  i7241
29.053
dwc_multimedia_added  i4506
18.08
geopoint_low_precision  i3083
12.37
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1874
7.519
dwc_order_replaced  i1705
6.841
dwc_continent_replaced  i1280
5.136
taxon_match_failed  i1269
5.092
dwc_genus_replaced  i1128
4.526
dwc_family_replaced  i785
3.15
dwc_genus_added  i482
1.934
dwc_order_added  i438
1.757
dwc_phylum_replaced  i355
1.424
dwc_class_replaced  i340
1.364
dwc_family_added  i323
1.296
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i148
0.594
dwc_specificepithet_added  i123
0.494
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i101
0.405
dwc_class_added  i42
0.169
rev_geocode_failure  i32
0.128
dwc_phylum_added  i28
0.112
dwc_kingdom_added  i27
0.108
rev_geocode_mismatch  i10
0.04
rev_geocode_corrected  i4
0.016
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i3
0.012
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i3
0.012
dwc_country_replaced  i2
0.008
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.004
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0.004
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