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
  • Actumnus (47)
  • Benthopanope (2)
  • Caecopilumnus (11)
  • Camptoplax (1)
  • Ceratocarcinus (4)
  • Cryptopilumnus (5)
  • Eurycarcinus (12)
  • Glabropilumnus (30)
  • Heteropanope (9)
  • Heteropilumnus (9)
  • Lentilumnus (2)
  • Lobopilumnus (11)
  • Lophoplax (7)
  • Nanopilumnus (7)
  • Neoactumnus (1)
  • Peleianus (1)
  • Permanotus (5)
  • Pilumnopeus (5)
  • Pilumnus (424)
  • Pilumnus HAW01 (1)
  • Pilumnus HAW02 (1)
  • Pseudocryptocoeloma (2)
  • Rhizopinae (5)
  • Tiaramedon (13)
  • Viaderiana (45)
  • Viaderiana HAW01 (9)
  • Xenophthalmodes (2)