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
  • Amblychilepas (20)
  • Clypidina (7)
  • Cosmetalepas (3)
  • Cranopsis (12)
  • Dendrofissurella (3)
  • Diodora (1832)
  • Emarginula (295)
  • Fissurella (1124)
  • Fissurellidea (12)
  • Hemimarginula (8)
  • Hemitoma (252)
  • Laevinesta (1)
  • Lucapina (368)
  • Lucapinella (169)
  • Macroschisma (20)
  • Medusafissurella (4)
  • Megatebennus (15)
  • Megathura (38)
  • Montfortia (8)
  • Montfortula (11)
  • Nesta (9)
  • Puncturella (61)
  • Pupillaea (4)
  • Rimula (161)
  • Scutus (121)
  • Subemarginula (1)
  • Tugali (35)
  • Tugalina (1)
  • Zeidora (9)