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: 15 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 706,469 specimen records
  • 410,845 (58%) georeferenced
  • 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
  • 453,488 (64%) identified to species
  • 1,779 families
  • 8,555 genera
  • 36,936 species
  • 39,105 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alvania (569)
  • Benthonella (14)
  • Benthonellania (4)
  • Cingula (72)
  • Crisilla (1)
  • Frigidoalvania (1)
  • Lucidestea (3)
  • Manzonia (13)
  • Onoba (8)
  • Parashiela (12)
  • Plagyostila (1)
  • Powellisetia (3)
  • Pusillina (9)
  • Pyrgosformisia (1)
  • Rissoa (184)
  • Setia (1)
  • Simulamerelina (9)
  • Subonoba (4)
  • Turboella (5)
  • Vitricithna (17)
  • Voorwindia (7)