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
  • Amauropsis (4)
  • Bulbus (2)
  • Calinaticina (3)
  • Cochlis (2)
  • Conuber (22)
  • Cryptonatica (5)
  • Eunaticina (15)
  • Euspira (34)
  • Falsilunatia (1)
  • Globularia (4)
  • Glossaulax (11)
  • Glyphepithema (1)
  • Haliotinella (2)
  • Hypterita (2)
  • Lunatia (100)
  • Mammilla (56)
  • Natica (1394)
  • Naticarius (71)
  • Neverita (127)
  • Notocochlis (28)
  • Payraudeautia (3)
  • Polinices (1065)
  • Sigaretus (2)
  • Sigatica (55)
  • Sinum (340)
  • Stigmaulax (50)
  • Tanea (17)
  • Tectonatica (29)