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
Aeneator (5 ) Afrocominella (21 ) Ameranna (14 ) Amphissa (104 ) Ancistrolepis (3 ) Anna (15 ) Antillophos (273 ) Austrofusus (19 ) Babylonia (67 ) Bailya (177 ) Beringius (6 ) Buccinanops (66 ) Buccinulum (78 ) Buccinum (124 ) Bullia (163 ) Burnupena (77 ) Caducifer (47 ) Cancellopollia (3 ) Cantharus (323 ) Chickcharnea (1 ) Chrysodomus (1 ) Clea (22 ) Clivipollia (85 ) Colubraria (506 ) Colus (95 ) Cominella (108 ) Cumia (22 ) Dianthiphos (1 ) Eburna (11 ) Ecmanis (12 ) Engina (754 ) Engoniophos (44 ) Enzinopsis (13 ) Euthria (6 ) Exilioidea (1 ) Gemophos (201 ) Habevolutopsius (1 ) Hesperisternia (22 ) Hindsia (37 ) Japelion (6 ) Kelletia (26 ) Laminilabrum (3 ) Liomesus (20 ) Lirabuccinum (54 ) Macron (25 ) Mohnia (1 ) Monostiolum (38 ) Nassaria (27 ) Neptunea (108 ) Nicema (2 ) Northia (48 ) Parellsiphon (1 ) Pareuthria (4 ) Parviphos (36 ) Penion (32 ) Phaenomenella (1 ) Phos (159 ) Pisania (523 ) Plicifusus (11 ) Pollia (305 ) Prodotia (29 ) Ptychosalpinx (42 ) Pyrulofusus (1 ) Quadrasia (1 ) Retifusus (2 ) Searlesia (1 ) Serratifusus (2 ) Sipho (5 ) Siphonalia (66 ) Solenosteira (162 ) Trajana (5 ) Triumphis (35 ) Volutharpa (15 ) Volutopsius (3 )