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
  • 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)