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
  • Annulobalcis (1)
  • Apicalia (6)
  • Athleenia (15)
  • Bacula (4)
  • Balcis (46)
  • Couthouyella (1)
  • Curveulima (8)
  • Echineulima (14)
  • Enteroxenos (2)
  • Ersilia (4)
  • Eulima (114)
  • Eulimostraca (35)
  • Eulitoma (1)
  • Goodingia (4)
  • Goubinia (1)
  • Haliella (1)
  • Halielloides (1)
  • Hebeulima (3)
  • Hemiliostraca (11)
  • Hypermastus (11)
  • Liostraca (1)
  • Melanella (809)
  • Microeulima (9)
  • Mucronalia (5)
  • Nanobalcis (16)
  • Niso (180)
  • Oceanida (22)
  • Parvioris (10)
  • Peasistilifer (24)
  • Polygireulima (4)
  • Prostilifer (2)
  • Pulicicochlea (1)
  • Pyramidelloides (27)
  • Rosenia (2)
  • Sabinella (16)
  • Scalenostoma (10)
  • Sticteulima (3)
  • Stilapex (3)
  • Stilifer (22)
  • Strombiformis (101)
  • Thyca (34)
  • Vitreobalcis (17)
  • Vitreolina (39)
  • [Eulimidae] HAW01 (1)