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DMNS Marine Invertebrate Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 33,736
Media Records: 1,634
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-09-19

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Marine Invertebrate Collection dates to the early 1900s. It is a diverse collection of worldwide specimens, the largest portion being marine shells. It also has specimens of echinoderms, corals, sponges, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Despite its name, it includes a substantial collection of land and freshwater snail shells. The collection contains nearly 50,000 lots, of which more than half are databased in Arctos with more being added to the database each week. More than half of the databased lots are geolocated, and over 1,000 specimen records have images. Specimens in the collection represent nearly 6,000 species in over 450 families. Specimens come from over 150 countries with the majority from the United States and most of those from Florida and Hawaii. All specimens have been donated to the Museum by shell collectors, including many self-collected specimens.

Contacts

Name Paula Cushing
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailpaula.cushing@dmns.org
Name Paula Cushing
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailpaula.cushing@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 Phyllis Sharp
RoleDepartmental Associate
Emailsharpphyl@gmail.com
Name Bryan Johnson
RoleDepartmental Associate
Emailspiralsofthenautilus@gmail.com
Name Paula Cushing
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailpaula.cushing@dmns.org
Name Andrew Doll
RoleZoology Collections Manager
Emailandrew.doll@dmns.org
  • Data Corrected
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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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i30008
88.949
dwc_datasetid_added  i29802
88.339
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i29802
88.339
dwc_taxonid_added  i29802
88.339
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i29802
88.339
gbif_canonicalname_added  i29802
88.339
gbif_genericname_added  i29802
88.339
gbif_taxon_corrected  i29802
88.339
dwc_taxonrank_added  i29561
87.624
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i29497
87.435
dwc_continent_added  i29395
87.132
gbif_reference_added  i25748
76.322
dwc_multimedia_added  i18367
54.443
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i15794
46.816
geopoint_datum_missing  i13022
38.6
rev_geocode_eez  i12431
36.848
geopoint_datum_error  i12000
35.57
gbif_vernacularname_added  i11076
32.831
taxon_match_failed  i6941
20.574
dwc_order_replaced  i5223
15.482
dwc_continent_replaced  i2738
8.116
dwc_family_replaced  i2153
6.382
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i1356
4.019
dwc_genus_replaced  i1213
3.596
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i389
1.153
dwc_order_added  i245
0.726
rev_geocode_mismatch  i199
0.59
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i131
0.388
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i59
0.175
rev_geocode_failure  i30
0.089
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i23
0.068
dwc_country_replaced  i15
0.044
dwc_class_replaced  i14
0.041
rev_geocode_corrected  i12
0.036
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i11
0.033
dwc_genus_added  i10
0.03
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i9
0.027
geopoint_0_coord  i6
0.018
dwc_phylum_replaced  i5
0.015
dwc_family_added  i4
0.012
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i4
0.012
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i2
0.006
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0.003
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