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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences - Mollusk Collection (NCSM-UNIO)

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Invertebrates Collection is comprised of more than 35,000 specimens, covering 85 countries around the world.
Contacts: Jamie Smith, jamie.smith@naturalsciences.org
Homepage: https://naturalsciences.org/research-collections/collections/mollusks-collection
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 August 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 38,072 specimen records
  • 32,211 (85%) georeferenced
  • 34,150 (90%) identified to species
  • 278 families
  • 835 genera
  • 1,865 species
  • 1,940 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aequipecten (40)
  • Amusium (1)
  • Argopecten (108)
  • Azumapecten (1)
  • Caribachlamys (4)
  • Chlamys (4)
  • Crassadoma (3)
  • Cryptopecten (4)
  • Decatopecten (1)
  • Equichlamys (1)
  • Euvola (41)
  • Flexopecten (1)
  • Gloripallium (1)
  • Leptopecten (2)
  • Mimachlamys (3)
  • Nodipecten (21)
  • Pecten (6)
  • Placopecten (7)
  • Scaeochlamys (1)
  • Spathochlamys (13)
  • Ylistrum (1)