Name: Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology (Arctos)
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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

August 14, 2026 at 00:02

First registration

October 06, 2023 at 15:26

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vertnet.org/archive.do?r=almnh_inv

Contacts

Kevin Kocot
Alabama Museum of Natural History

David Bloom
VertNet

Dusty McDonald
Arctos

Brooke Bogan
Alabama Museum of Natural History

28,252

total submitted occurrences

18,467

accepted occurrences

1,854

taxa

1,167

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	11,915		42.2%
decimalLatitude	6,416		22.7%
decimalLongitude	6,416		22.7%
eventDate	29		0.1%
maximumDepthInMeters	7,951		28.1%
minimumDepthInMeters	7,951		28.1%
occurrenceStatus	28,252		100.0%
scientificNameID	16,912	24	59.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	7,951	28.1%
NO_COORD	6,416	22.7%
NOT_MARINE	5,658	20.0%
ON_LAND	2,551	9.0%
NO_MATCH	1,668	5.9%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	382	1.4%
MARINE_UNSURE	90	0.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	82	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