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
  • Amnipila (18)
  • Anculosa (39)
  • Athearnia (32)
  • Bridouxia (4)
  • Cleopatra (28)
  • Cubaedomus (18)
  • Doryssa (30)
  • Edgaria (1)
  • Elimia (9376)
  • Goniobasis (19)
  • Gyrotoma (485)
  • Io (52)
  • Juga (150)
  • Koreanomelania (2)
  • Koreoleptoxis (2)
  • Lavigeria (16)
  • Leptoxis (1319)
  • Limnotrochus (5)
  • Lithasia (512)
  • Lithasiopsis (41)
  • Pachychilus (704)
  • Pachymelania (27)
  • Paramelania (8)
  • Pleurocera (786)
  • Potadoma (12)
  • Reymondia (7)
  • Semisulcospira (16)
  • Spekia (12)
  • Stomatodon (2)
  • Sulcospira (2)
  • Tiphobia (7)