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
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
Acanthoptyx (2 ) Aeschrodomus (3 ) Afrodonta (1 ) Allodiscus (22 ) Andrefrancia (29 ) Beilania (6 ) Cavellia (8 ) Chanomphalus (123 ) Charopa (46 ) Corinomala (1 ) Cryptocharopa (1 ) Discocharopa (104 ) Egestula (3 ) Fectola (17 ) Flammulina (21 ) Geminoropa (1 ) Gerontia (1 ) Godwinia (1 ) Gyrocochlea (4 ) Helenoconcha (4 ) Himeroconcha (18 ) Hirasea (14 ) Ladronellum (6 ) Lauopa (1 ) Libera (48 ) Lilloiconcha (1 ) Micromphalia (1 ) Mocella (6 ) Monomphalus (1 ) Notodiscus (1 ) Oreomava (1 ) Palline (35 ) Pararhytida (13 ) Paryphantopsis (113 ) Pernagera (4 ) Pernastela (1 ) Phacussa (11 ) Phasis (4 ) Phenacharopa (5 ) Phenacohelix (21 ) Pillomena (2 ) Pilsbrycharopa (45 ) Pilula (5 ) Platyrhytida (12 ) Ptychodon (15 ) Pulchridomus (1 ) Reticharopa (82 ) Reticulapex (476 ) Rhophodon (1 ) Rotadiscus (52 ) Semperdon (224 ) Serpho (7 ) Sinployea (68 ) Subfectola (1 ) Suteria (8 ) Thalassohelix (9 ) Therasia (10 ) Therasiella (15 ) Trachycystis (26 ) Tropidotropis (1 ) Vatusila (29 ) Zilchogyra (1 )