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
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
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)