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
  • Alox (6)
  • Arcania (2)
  • Bellidilia (4)
  • Callidactylus (5)
  • Coleusia (6)
  • Coralliocryptus (1)
  • Cryptocnemus (2)
  • Ebalia (14)
  • Ebaliopsis (9)
  • Euclosiana (4)
  • Heteronucia (12)
  • Hiplyra (22)
  • Iliacantha (14)
  • Ixa (1)
  • Kabutos (1)
  • Leucosia (6)
  • Lithadia (13)
  • Myra (11)
  • Myropsis (6)
  • Nucia (55)
  • Nucia HAW01 (1)
  • Nursia (4)
  • Oreotlos (13)
  • Parilia (1)
  • Persephona (24)
  • Philyra (3)
  • Randallia (3)
  • Raylilia (2)
  • Speloeophorus (8)
  • Tanaoa (2)
  • Uhlias (7)
  • Urashima (1)
  • Urnalana (30)