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Florida Museum of Natural History (UF)

The UF Invertebrate collection holds >725,000 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 >50,000 species from 28 phyla.

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Collection Statistics

  • 727,237 specimen records
  • 432,007 (59%) georeferenced
  • 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
  • 460,642 (63%) identified to species
  • 1,811 families
  • 8,611 genera
  • 37,118 species
  • 39,299 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 November 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
IPT / DwC-A Source: IPT ingestion
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