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
  • Acmaeopleura (3)
  • Brachynotus (7)
  • Brankocleistostoma (5)
  • Cyclograpsus (56)
  • Eriocheir (1)
  • Gaetice (4)
  • Gopkittisak (21)
  • Helice (2)
  • Helograpsus (2)
  • Hemigrapsus (29)
  • Metaplax (3)
  • Orcovita (5)
  • Paragrapsus (5)
  • Parapyxidognathus (3)
  • Pseudograpsus (24)
  • Pseudohelice (4)
  • Ptychognathus (39)
  • Scutumara (2)
  • Thalassograpsus (1)
  • Varuna (20)