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Alabama Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection (ALMNH-IZ)

The Invertebrate Zoology Collection contains over 23,000 catalogued lots of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates and an estimated 10,000 additional lots of uncatalogued specimens. Particular strengths of the collection include diverse Antarctic marine invertebrates, freshwater mussels, and Aplacophora.

Curator: Kevin Kocot, kmkocot@ua.edu, 205-348-4052 (ORCID #: 0000-0002-8673-2688)
Collections Manager: Brooke Bogan, babogan@ua.edu
Homepage: https://arctos.database.museum/almnh_inv
iDigBio Recordset: https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/81ded192-0223-4fb6-8b82-7da796111f4a
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 July 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
  • 24,067 specimen records
  • 18,476 (77%) georeferenced
  • 2,971 (12%) with images (15,099 total images)
  • 74 GenBank genetic references
  • 18,280 (76%) identified to species
  • 642 families
  • 1,209 genera
  • 2,022 species
  • 2,073 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution
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