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: 15 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 706,469 specimen records
  • 410,845 (58%) georeferenced
  • 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
  • 453,488 (64%) identified to species
  • 1,779 families
  • 8,555 genera
  • 36,936 species
  • 39,105 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Buliminus (39)
  • Cerastus (5)
  • Chondrula (41)
  • Chondrulopsina (2)
  • Chondrus (21)
  • Coccoderma (12)
  • Conulinus (44)
  • Draparnaudia (10)
  • Ena (31)
  • Euchondrus (1)
  • Georginapaeus (1)
  • Jaminia (24)
  • Mabilliella (2)
  • Mastus (25)
  • Merdigera (1)
  • Mirus (9)
  • Napaeus (12)
  • Omphaloconus (1)
  • Pachnodus (8)
  • Paramastus (1)
  • Passamaella (1)
  • Pene (1)
  • Pseudonapaeus (15)
  • Pupinidius (1)
  • Styloptychus (3)
  • Subzebrinus (273)
  • Zebrina (52)
  • Zebrinops (5)