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
  • Allogona (224)
  • Appalachina (114)
  • Ashmunella (152)
  • Cryptomastix (80)
  • Daedalochila (1337)
  • Euchemotrema (104)
  • Fumonelix (224)
  • Giffordius (1)
  • Inflectarius (1501)
  • Linisa (84)
  • Lobosculum (101)
  • Mesodon (2063)
  • Millerelix (231)
  • Neohelix (550)
  • Patera (900)
  • Polygyra (2300)
  • Praticolella (657)
  • Stenotrema (1976)
  • Trilobopsis (40)
  • Triodopsis (1516)
  • Vespericola (112)
  • Webbhelix (123)
  • Xolotrema (328)