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
  • Acanthonyx (19)
  • Acanthophrys (2)
  • Chorilia (11)
  • Criocarcinus (3)
  • Epialtus (17)
  • Hoplophrys (6)
  • Huenia (93)
  • Hyastenus (125)
  • Lahaina (38)
  • Libinia (40)
  • Loxorhynchus (3)
  • Menaethiops (27)
  • Menaethius (271)
  • Micippoides (17)
  • Mocosoa (5)
  • Naxioides (11)
  • Nibilia (4)
  • Notolopas (13)
  • Pelia (31)
  • Perinia (232)
  • Phalangipus (1)
  • Pisa (1)
  • Pitho (41)
  • Pugettia (93)
  • Rochinia (32)
  • Scyra (42)
  • Simocarcinus (19)
  • Sphenocarcinus (2)
  • Stilbognathus (4)
  • Thusaenys (1)
  • Tyche (8)
  • Tylocarcinus (226)
  • Xenocarcinus (22)