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.

Citation: Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ALMNH:Inv

Published: October 14, 2025 at 00:02

URL: https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=almnh_inv

Kevin Kocot
Alabama Museum of Natural History

David Bloom
VertNet

Dusty McDonald
Arctos

Brooke Bogan
Alabama Museum of Natural History

27,109

occurrence records

1,854

taxa

1,167

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	10,773		39.7%
decimalLatitude	6,405		23.6%
decimalLongitude	6,405		23.6%
eventDate	29		0.1%
maximumDepthInMeters	6,811		25.1%
minimumDepthInMeters	6,811		25.1%
occurrenceStatus	27,109		100.0%
scientificNameID	16,902	24	62.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	6,811	25.1%
NO_COORD	6,405	23.6%
NOT_MARINE	4,524	16.7%
NO_MATCH	1,670	6.2%
ON_LAND	1,420	5.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	382	1.4%
MARINE_UNSURE	90	0.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	81	0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	11	0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS	5	0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE	1	0.0%

Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology (Arctos)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data