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
  • Anodontia (302)
  • Bellucina (1)
  • Bourdotia (1)
  • Callucina (4)
  • Cardiolucina (2)
  • Cavatidens (1)
  • Cavilinga (5)
  • Chavania (1)
  • Clathrolucina (8)
  • Codakia (784)
  • Ctena (247)
  • Divalinga (45)
  • Divalucina (2)
  • Divaricella (250)
  • Epicodakia (16)
  • Funafutia (26)
  • Here (1)
  • Lepidolucina (8)
  • Leucosphaera (12)
  • Linga (399)
  • Liralucina (1)
  • Loripes (26)
  • Loripinus (1)
  • Lucina (475)
  • Lucinella (2)
  • Lucinisca (26)
  • Lucinoma (97)
  • Miltha (4)
  • Myrtea (25)
  • Nevenulora (1)
  • Notomyrtea (1)
  • Parvilucina (298)
  • Pegophysema (6)
  • Phacoides (146)
  • Pillucina (12)
  • Pleurolucina (10)
  • Pompholigina (1)
  • Pseudomiltha (68)
  • Radiolucina (5)
  • Stewartia (12)
  • Tellidorella (3)
  • Wallucina (55)