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Download Specimen Records

Structure:

Symbiota Native

Symbiota native is very similar to Darwin Core except with the addtion of a few fields such as substrate, associated collectors, verbatim description.

Darwin Core

Darwin Core (DwC) is a TDWG endorsed exchange standard specifically for biodiversity datasets. For more information on what data fields are included in DwC, visit the DwC Quick Reference Guide.

*What is Darwin Core?

Data Extensions:

include Determination History
include Image Records
*Output must be a compressed archive

File Format:

Comma Delimited (CSV)
Tab Delimited

Character Set:

ISO-8859-1 (western)
UTF-8 (unicode)

Compression:

Compressed ZIP file

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* There is a 1,000,000 record limit to occurrence downloads