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
  • Allopeas (91)
  • Bacillum (4)
  • Beckianum (295)
  • Bocageia (6)
  • Cryptelasmus (2)
  • Curvella (67)
  • Eremopeas (3)
  • Euonyma (16)
  • Glessula (73)
  • Homorus (14)
  • Lamellaxis (1150)
  • Leptinaria (596)
  • Leptopeas (4)
  • Obeliscus (365)
  • Ochroderma (1)
  • Opeas (501)
  • Paropeas (112)
  • Prosopeas (173)
  • Pseudoglessula (21)
  • Pseudopeas (93)
  • Rhodea (6)
  • Rumina (166)
  • Stenogyra (2)
  • Subulina (2312)
  • Subulona (3)
  • Synapterpes (12)
  • Tortaxis (21)
  • Xerocerastus (10)
  • Zootecus (217)