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
  • Astraea (970)
  • Astralium (624)
  • Bolma (15)
  • Bothropoma (4)
  • Collonia (2)
  • Collonista (17)
  • Cookia (18)
  • Gabrielona (13)
  • Galeoastraea (2)
  • Guildfordia (26)
  • Homalopoma (160)
  • Leptothyra (57)
  • Liotia (43)
  • Liotina (43)
  • Liotinaria (2)
  • Lithopoma (152)
  • Lunella (45)
  • Megastraea (7)
  • Moelleria (10)
  • Pomaulax (25)
  • Prisogaster (1)
  • Pseudastralium (2)
  • Turbo (1886)
  • Uvanilla (22)