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 May 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 707,792 specimen records
  • 412,166 (58%) georeferenced
  • 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
  • 454,210 (64%) identified to species
  • 1,781 families
  • 8,559 genera
  • 36,966 species
  • 39,136 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acar (304)
  • Anadara (1362)
  • Arca (836)
  • Barbatia (1982)
  • Bathyarca (18)
  • Bentharca (23)
  • Calloarca (3)
  • Cucullaearca (22)
  • Fugleria (49)
  • Hawaiarca (45)
  • Lamarcka (189)
  • Larkinia (1)
  • Litharca (4)
  • Lunarca (20)
  • Mimarcaria (1)
  • Porterius (1)
  • Scapharca (11)
  • Senilia (5)
  • Sheldonella (13)
  • Tegillarca (2)
  • Tetrarca (1)
  • Trisidos (20)