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
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
Actinimenes (3 ) Anchiopontonia (4 ) Anchistus (25 ) Ancylomenes (14 ) Apopontonia (3 ) Araiopontonia (1 ) Brachycarpus (33 ) Climeniperaeus (2 ) Conchodytes (36 ) Coralliocaris (44 ) Crinotonia (1 ) Cuapetes (267 ) Dactylonia (9 ) Dasycaris (3 ) Exoclimenella (85 ) Exopalaemon (1 ) Exopontonia (1 ) Fennera (1 ) Hamodactylus (3 ) Hamopontonia (2 ) Harpiliopsis (62 ) Harpilius (7 ) Ischnopontonia (8 ) Jocaste (30 ) Kemponia HAW01 (5 ) Laomenes (16 ) Leander (38 ) Lipkemenes (1 ) Macrobrachium (109 ) Manipontonia (6 ) Metapontonia (1 ) Neoanchistus (6 ) Neopontonides (1 ) Odontonia (8 ) Onycocaridella (1 ) Onycocaris (16 ) Opaepupu (2 ) Orthopontonia (3 ) Palaemon (60 ) Palaemonella (129 ) Palaemonetes (17 ) Paranchistus (14 ) Paratypton (3 ) Periclimenaeus (106 ) Periclimenaeus HAW01 (1 ) Periclimenella (29 ) Periclimenes (201 ) Philarius (10 ) Phycomenes (2 ) Phyllognathia (2 ) Pinnotherotonia (1 ) Platycaris (3 ) Platypontonia (6 ) Pliopontonia (4 ) Pontonia (11 ) Pontonides (11 ) Pontoniinae (104 ) Pontoniopsis (14 ) Propontonia (1 ) Pseudopontonides (2 ) Rapipontonia (2 ) Stegopontonia (3 ) Thaumastocaris (12 ) Tuleariocaris (3 ) Typton (14 ) Urocaridella (24 ) Urocaridella HAW01 (1 ) Urocaris (7 ) Vir (3 ) Zenopontonia (73 ) [Palaemonidae] HAW01 (2 ) [Palaemonidae] HAW02 (1 )