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[CUMV Amphibian 1766] Rana muscosa - Wrong county supplied #1

Closed RyanSElliott closed 10 years ago

RyanSElliott commented 10 years ago

Collection site is described as Yosemite National Park but Alameda is given as county. Georeferencing notes say Tuolumne and Mariposa counties. Yosemite actually includes portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera counties. My guess is that the county was not supplied by the collector and a glitch during data entry accidentally included Alameda in the county field. Alameda would be the first county shown in an alphabetical listing of all counties in California.

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You can view the original detail page on VertNet. Here are the original record contents:

Term Value
InstitutionID http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34705
CollectionID http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34788
InstitutionCode CUMV
CollectionCode Amphibian
BasisOfRecord PreservedSpecimen
OccurrenceID urn:catalog:CUMV:Amphibian:1766
CatalogNumber 1766
RecordedBy CA Howell
IndividualCount 1
OccurrenceStatus present
Preparations fluid
EventDate 1929-10-05
StartDayOfYear 278
EndDayOfYear 278
Year 1929
Month 10
Day 5
VerbatimEventDate 5/10/1929
HigherGeography N. America;USA;California;;;;;
Continent North America
Country United States
CountryCode US
StateProvince California
County Alameda
Locality Yosemite National Park
DecimalLatitude 37.727777777
DecimalLongitude -119.6119444
GeodeticDatum NAD27
CoordinateUncertaintyInMeters 93621.98
GeoreferenceProtocol VertNet Georeferencing Guidelines
GeoreferenceVerificationStatus Verified by locality matchup
GeoreferenceRemarks Used the full length of Yosemite National Park from North to South as the extent, and the center in the valley as the localitiy.; Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties.
IdentifiedBy Robert Hansen
ScientificName Rana muscosa
HigherClassification Animalia;Chordata;Amphibia;Anura;Ranidae;Rana
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Amphibia
Order Anura
Family Ranidae
Genus Rana
SpecificEpithet muscosa
TaxonRank species
NomenclaturalCode ICZN
john-friel commented 10 years ago

This issue is apparently due to a recently discovered issue related to translation of our Specify database into VertNet. If no county is specify, VertNet is inserting the the first county in alphabetical order for the state in a locality record. In our original record for CUMV:Amphibian:1766 does not specify any county. VertNet programmers are now aware of the issue, and it should be corrected in a future refresh of our specimen data for VertNet.

john-friel commented 10 years ago

Issue has been resolved.