Dataset

National Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collections

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NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections records, 8784 Bryozoa, 68401 Coelenterates, 220965 Crustacea, 75012 Echinoderms, 196851 Mollusks, 28853 Porifera, 16466 Tunicates, 171401 Worms, 93268 General; Total number of 884216 records currently represent approximately 33% of actual specimen holdings, as of 10 May 2007.

Citation
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collection Database. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193, 2001, Version 3.2.04 (0802221).
License
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URL
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=nmnh-iz
Archive
http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=nmnh-iz

Contacts

Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology (NMNM-IZ)
Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History Department of Invertebrate Zoology (NMNM-IZ)

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

Cheryl Bright
Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History; Department of Invertebrate Zoology (IZ)

550,789
total submitted occurrences
526,727
accepted occurrences
32,906
taxa
28,914
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 550,789
100.0%
eventDate 13,718
2.5%
maximumDepthInMeters 96,172
17.5%
minimumDepthInMeters 113,840
20.7%
occurrenceStatus 550,789
100.0%
scientificNameID 18,659 2,966
3.9%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 87,970
16.0%
ON_LAND 50,174
9.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 29,043
5.3%
NO_MATCH 13,118
2.4%
NOT_MARINE 10,944
2.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 5,678
1.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 3,873
0.7%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1,321
0.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 1,116
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 75
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data