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
  • Arctonoe (40)
  • Asterophilia (3)
  • Chaetacanthus (7)
  • Dasybranchus (1)
  • Drieschia (1)
  • Enipo (1)
  • Eunoe (2)
  • Gastrolepidia (54)
  • Gattyana (1)
  • Gaudichaudius (1)
  • Halosydna (39)
  • Harmothoe (65)
  • Hermadion (8)
  • Hermenia (10)
  • Hesperonoe (4)
  • Heteralentia (16)
  • Hololepida (1)
  • Hololepidella (8)
  • Lepidasthenia (17)
  • Lepidonotinae (2)
  • Lepidonotus (120)
  • Malmgrenia (1)
  • Malmgreniella (13)
  • Paradyte (8)
  • Parahalosydna (2)
  • Paralentia (1)
  • Paralepidonotus (30)
  • Polynoinae (8)
  • Subadyte (18)
  • Thormora (11)