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
  • Acanthopleura (240)
  • Acanthopleurinae (13)
  • Amaurochiton (2)
  • Chiton (455)
  • Chitoninae (6)
  • Enoplochiton (3)
  • Liolophura (7)
  • Lucilina (67)
  • Onithochiton (18)
  • Radsia (1)
  • Rhyssoplax (63)
  • Squamopleura (4)
  • Sypharochiton (10)
  • Tegulaplax (10)
  • Tonicia (35)
  • Toniciinae (2)