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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences - Mollusk Collection (NCSM-UNIO)

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Invertebrates Collection is comprised of more than 35,000 specimens, covering 85 countries around the world.
Contacts: Jamie Smith, jamie.smith@naturalsciences.org
Homepage: https://naturalsciences.org/research-collections/collections/mollusks-collection
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 August 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 38,072 specimen records
  • 32,211 (85%) georeferenced
  • 34,150 (90%) identified to species
  • 278 families
  • 835 genera
  • 1,865 species
  • 1,940 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Quebec
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Bas-Saint-Laurent (1)
  • Beauce (2)
  • Berthier (1)
  • Brome (6)
  • Brome-Missisquoi (4)
  • Capitale-Nationale (1)
  • Centre-du-Québec (1)
  • Côte-Nord (1)
  • Drummond (1)
  • Estrie (1)
  • Gatineau (5)
  • Kamouraska (2)
  • Missiquoi (13)
  • Montérégie (1)
  • Nord-du-Québec (3)
  • Nunavik (6)
  • Outaouai (1)
  • Outaouais (1)
  • Rouville (2)
  • Wolf (1)
  • Yamaska (3)