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
  • Amerianna (3)
  • Amphigyra (1)
  • Ancylastrum (1)
  • Ancylus (75)
  • Anisus (53)
  • Antillorbis (10)
  • Armiger (7)
  • Australorbis (1)
  • Bathyomphalus (5)
  • Biomphalaria (195)
  • Bulinus (18)
  • Burnupia (2)
  • Camptoceras (1)
  • Carinifex (1)
  • Ceratophallus (1)
  • Choanomphalus (7)
  • Drepanotrema (122)
  • Ferrissia (199)
  • Glyptophysa (2)
  • Gundlachia (12)
  • Gyraulus (463)
  • Hebetancylus (49)
  • Helicorbis (1)
  • Helisoma (311)
  • Hippeutis (6)
  • Indoplanorbis (91)
  • Laevapex (113)
  • Menetus (42)
  • Micromenetus (316)
  • Miratesta (1)
  • Neoplanorbis (5)
  • Parapholyx (6)
  • Physastra (18)
  • Planorbarius (20)
  • Planorbella (791)
  • Planorbis (208)
  • Planorbula (54)
  • Polypylis (7)
  • Pompholyx (1)
  • Promenetus (49)
  • Rhodacmaea (2)
  • Rhodacmea (11)
  • Segmentina (16)
  • Segmentorbis (1)
  • Taphius (4)
  • Tropicorbis (38)
  • Uncancylus (9)
  • Vorticifex (29)