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
  • Amblyosyllis (8)
  • Autolytinae (29)
  • Autolytus (13)
  • Branchiosyllis (4)
  • Brania (2)
  • Epigamia (21)
  • Eurysyllis (1)
  • Eusyllinae (2)
  • Eusyllis (7)
  • Exogone (11)
  • Exogoninae (3)
  • Haplosyllis (3)
  • Haplosyllis HAW01 (1)
  • Myrianida (8)
  • Odontosyllis (18)
  • Opisthosyllis (7)
  • Pionosyllis (1)
  • Proceraea (17)
  • Salvatoria (2)
  • Sphaerosyllis (1)
  • Syllinae (6)
  • Syllis (39)
  • Trypanosyllis (53)
  • Typosyllis (8)
  • Xenosyllis (1)
  • [Syllidae] HAW01 (1)
  • [Syllidae] HAW02 (1)
  • [Syllidae] HAW03 (1)