Florida Museum of Natural History (UF)
The UF Invertebrate collection holds >620,000 databased lots of mollusks and marine invertebrates. It began as a Malacology collection almost 100 years ago and ~85% of the holdings are still mollusks. Since 2000 the collection was expanded to cover all invertebrate phyla, focusing on marine taxa. Today it holds >40,000 species from 28 phyla.
Contacts: Gustav Paulay, paulay@flmnh.ufl.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 April 2024
Collection Statistics
707,669 specimen records
412,043 (58%) georeferenced
33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images) 454,032 (64%) identified to species 1,781 families 8,559 genera 36,956 species 39,126 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
Abbottella (181 ) Adamsiella (176 ) Annularia (142 ) Annularisca (3 ) Articulipoma (3 ) Blaesospira (21 ) Choanopoma (205 ) Chondropoma (1160 ) Chondropomella (4 ) Chondropometes (155 ) Chondropomium (27 ) Chondrothyra (125 ) Chondrothyrella (8 ) Chondrothyretes (168 ) Chondrothyrium (8 ) Christophipoma (1 ) Cistula (1 ) Cistulops (4 ) Clydonopoma (27 ) Colobostylus (163 ) Colonella (7 ) Colonina (7 ) Crossepoma (19 ) Ctenopoma (15 ) Dallsiphona (3 ) Diplopoma (20 ) Eutudora (10 ) Eutudorops (1 ) Eyerdamia (11 ) Gouldipoma (19 ) Haitipoma (34 ) Halotudora (3 ) Hispanipoma (21 ) Kisslingia (39 ) Klattea (12 ) Lagopoma (6 ) Leiabbottella (7 ) Licina (94 ) Meganipha (7 ) Opisthocoelicum (1 ) Opisthosiphon (210 ) Orcuttipoma (12 ) Parachondria (197 ) Parachondrops (3 ) Paradoxipoma (5 ) Petasipoma (6 ) Ramsdenia (19 ) Rhytidopoma (41 ) Rhytidothyra (30 ) Rolleia (14 ) Sallepoma (8 ) Tessaripoma (3 ) Torrella (6 ) Troschelvindex (14 ) Tudora (51 ) Turrithyra (42 ) Weinlandipoma (143 ) Xenopoma (27 ) Xenopomoides (3 )