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
  • Agladrillia (5)
  • Bellaspira (119)
  • Calliclava (22)
  • Cerodrillia (335)
  • Clathrodrillia (37)
  • Clavus (106)
  • Conopleura (3)
  • Cruziturricula (3)
  • Cymatosyrinx (36)
  • Decoradrillia (2)
  • Douglassia (15)
  • Drillia (164)
  • Elaeocyma (1)
  • Fenimorea (114)
  • Fusiturricula (15)
  • Globidrillia (3)
  • Imaclava (19)
  • Iredalea (5)
  • Kylix (4)
  • Leptadrillia (26)
  • Lissodrillia (17)
  • Neodrillia (83)
  • Paracuneus (1)
  • Sedilia (1)
  • Spirotropis (1)
  • Splendrillia (111)
  • Stenodrillia (3)
  • Syntomodrillia (11)