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
  • Aesopus (49)
  • Alcira (3)
  • Alia (46)
  • Anachis (1068)
  • Astyris (106)
  • Bifurcium (21)
  • Clathranachis (1)
  • Columbella (818)
  • Columbellopsis (6)
  • Conella (11)
  • Cosmioconcha (37)
  • Costoanachis (484)
  • Cotonopsis (11)
  • Decipifus (25)
  • Euplica (395)
  • Falsuszafrona (9)
  • Glyptanachis (1)
  • Graphicomassa (12)
  • Indomitrella (3)
  • Macrozafra (1)
  • Mazatlania (66)
  • Metanachis (24)
  • Metulella (4)
  • Microcithara (16)
  • Minipyrene (1)
  • Mitrella (1263)
  • Mitropsis (2)
  • Mokumea (1)
  • Nassarina (182)
  • Nitidella (431)
  • Parametaria (29)
  • Pardalina (2)
  • Pardalinops (5)
  • Parvanachis (159)
  • Pictocolumbella (4)
  • Psarostola (14)
  • Pseudamycla (1)
  • Pseudanachis (1)
  • Pyrene (387)
  • Pyreneola (2)
  • Rhombinella (4)
  • Seminella (29)
  • Steironepion (2)
  • Strombina (69)
  • Suturoglypta (38)
  • Zafra (69)
  • Zafrona (46)
  • Zella (1)
  • Zemitrella (3)