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
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
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
  • Allochroa (16)
  • Apodosis (1)
  • Auricula (20)
  • Auriculastra (39)
  • Auriculinella (1)
  • Blauneria (52)
  • Cassidula (162)
  • Creedonia (5)
  • Cylindrotis (1)
  • Detracia (147)
  • Ellobium (172)
  • Laemodonta (51)
  • Leuconopsis (2)
  • Leucophytia (2)
  • Marinula (50)
  • Melampus (1097)
  • Melampus HAW01 (1)
  • Microtralia (15)
  • Myosotella (56)
  • Ophicardelus (16)
  • Ovatella (3)
  • Pedipes (161)
  • Plecotrema (47)
  • Pleuroloba (1)
  • Pythia (459)
  • Tralia (62)