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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 - Texas
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Anderson (5)
  • Angelina (3)
  • Archer (1)
  • Baylor (1)
  • Bee (1)
  • Bell (7)
  • Bexar (2)
  • Bosque (1)
  • Brazoria (2)
  • Brazos-Burleson (3)
  • Burleson-Washington (1)
  • Burnet (1)
  • Burnet-Llano (1)
  • Caldwell-Guadalupe (1)
  • Cameron (4)
  • Camp-Titus (2)
  • Chambers (2)
  • Clay (1)
  • Coleman (2)
  • Colorado (1)
  • Comal (2)
  • Concho (2)
  • Denton (7)
  • Falls (2)
  • Freestone (2)
  • Ft. Bend (5)
  • Galveston (5)
  • Gonzales (13)
  • Harris (4)
  • Harrison-Panola (1)
  • Hays (7)
  • Hidalgo (1)
  • Hood (1)
  • Houston (1)
  • Hunt (1)
  • Jackson (9)
  • Jasper (13)
  • Jeff Davis (2)
  • Jefferson (15)
  • Kaufman (3)
  • Kerr (7)
  • Lee (2)
  • Live Oak (6)
  • Llano (3)
  • Louisiana-Shelby (1)
  • Marion (10)
  • McLennan (1)
  • Milam (1)
  • Montgomery (6)
  • Nacogdoches (3)
  • Nacogdoches-San Augustine (1)
  • Navarro (2)
  • Newton (4)
  • Nueces (14)
  • Palo Pinto (1)
  • Pecos (2)
  • Rains (1)
  • Refugio (1)
  • Refugio-San Patricio (4)
  • Robertson (1)
  • San Jacinto (5)
  • San Patricio (1)
  • San Saba (1)
  • Somervell (6)
  • Tarrant (23)
  • Tom Green (2)
  • Travis (7)
  • Tyler (13)
  • Upshur (1)
  • Uvalde (1)
  • Val Verde (2)
  • Victoria (2)
  • Washington (1)
  • Webb (1)
  • Wharton (2)
  • Wichita (1)
  • Zapata (1)