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
  • Amphicyclotulus (48)
  • Amphicyclotus (73)
  • Aperostoma (100)
  • Austrocyclotus (17)
  • Barbacyclus (9)
  • Calaperostoma (11)
  • Crocidopoma (144)
  • Cycladamsia (2)
  • Cyclochittya (1)
  • Cyclojamaicia (22)
  • Cyclopilsbrya (62)
  • Cyclovendreysia (5)
  • Dicrista (24)
  • Farcimen (307)
  • Farcimoides (25)
  • Gassiesia (9)
  • Gonatoraphe (2)
  • Hainesia (216)
  • Incidostoma (24)
  • Lagocyclus (2)
  • Lithacaspis (9)
  • Megalomastoma (64)
  • Mexcyclotus (48)
  • Neocyclotus (338)
  • Ostodes (26)
  • Poteria (104)
  • Ptychocochlis (81)
  • Tomocyclus (27)
  • Xenocyclus (4)