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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
Homepage: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/malacology/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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
  • Astrogorgia (39)
  • Bebryce (21)
  • Discogorgia (4)
  • Echinogorgia (44)
  • Echinomuricea (20)
  • Eunicea (50)
  • Euplexaura (21)
  • Menella (32)
  • Muricea (39)
  • Muriceopsis (1)
  • Paracis (2)
  • Paraplexaura (2)
  • Placogorgia (3)
  • Plexaura (8)
  • Plexaurella (23)
  • Pseudoplexaura (21)
  • Scleracis (2)
  • Swiftia (8)
  • Thesea (19)
  • Trimuricea (8)
  • Villogorgia (13)