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 May 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 707,792 specimen records
  • 412,166 (58%) georeferenced
  • 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
  • 454,210 (64%) identified to species
  • 1,781 families
  • 8,559 genera
  • 36,966 species
  • 39,136 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Botrylloides (92)
  • Botrylloides HAW01 (2)
  • Botryllus (47)
  • Botryllus HAW01 (1)
  • Cnemidocarpa (12)
  • Distomus (1)
  • Eusynstyela (28)
  • Metandrocarpa (11)
  • Polyandrocarpa (15)
  • Polycarpa (117)
  • Styela (85)
  • Styela HAW01 (4)
  • Symplegma (53)
  • Symplegma HAW01 (2)
  • [Styelidae] HAW01 (1)