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
  • Atrimitra (7)
  • Calcimitra (2)
  • Cancilla (80)
  • Carinomitra (5)
  • Condylomitra (1)
  • Cylindra (2)
  • Domiporta (98)
  • Episcomitra (1)
  • Gemmulimitra (1)
  • Imbricaria (284)
  • Imbricariopsis (5)
  • Isara (10)
  • Mitra (2306)
  • Nebularia (80)
  • Neocancilla (139)
  • Neotiara (10)
  • Perplicaria (2)
  • Pleioptygma (2)
  • Probata (8)
  • Profundimitra (1)
  • Pseudonebularia (6)
  • Pterygia (136)
  • Quasimitra (9)
  • Roseomitra (2)
  • Scabricola (75)
  • Strigatella (142)
  • Subcancilla (127)
  • Swainsonia (28)
  • Ziba (39)