Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 11 shown for “Flabellina suturalis Cushman, 1935” — 40 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Flabellina suturalis Cushman, 1935
Artist not stated in the record

Flabellina pilulifera Cushman & Campbell, 1935
Artist not stated in the record

Flabellina jarvisi Cushman, 1935
Artist not stated in the record

Flabellina semireticulata Cushman & Jarvis, 1928
Artist not stated in the record

Flabellina crassa Cushman & Kleinpell, 1934
Artist not stated in the record

Vaginulina suturalis Cushman, 1937
Artist not stated in the record

Megopis suturalis
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1929

Orbulina suturalis Brönnimann, 1951
Artist not stated in the record

Flabellina verta
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Mar 2018 to 23 Mar 2018

Flabellina henbesti Bermudez, 1937
Artist not stated in the record

Flabellina vicksburgensis Howe, 1930
Artist not stated in the record
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 68747 matched · 40 examined · 7 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 18:31 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.