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
  • Alectrion (3)
  • Amyclina (2)
  • Anentome (1)
  • Cyclonassa (4)
  • Cyclope (18)
  • Cyllene (9)
  • Demoulia (29)
  • Dorsanum (19)
  • Hebra (3)
  • Hinia (6)
  • Metaphos (4)
  • Monoptygma (2)
  • Nassarius (3454)
  • Naytia (2)
  • Niotha (9)
  • Phrontis (45)
  • Reticunassa (3)
  • Sphaeronassa (2)
  • Telasco (2)
  • Tritia (100)
  • Zeuxis (5)