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
Geographic Distribution - Unplaced
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Alpes-Maritimes Dept. (96)
  • Alpes-Martimes Dept. (1)
  • Alpes-de Haute Provence (2)
  • Ardennes Dept. (1)
  • Aube Dept. (1)
  • Bas-Rhin Dept. (2)
  • Basses-Pyrénées Dept. (3)
  • Belfort,Territorie de (1)
  • Bouches-du Rhône (1)
  • Bouches-du Rhône Dept. (35)
  • Bouches-du-Rhône Dept. (6)
  • Calvados Department (4)
  • Charente-Maritime Dept. (3)
  • Corse-du-Sud Dept. (1)
  • Cote-d'Or Dept. (2)
  • Dept. Orleans (1)
  • Drome Dept. (2)
  • Eure Dept. (1)
  • Finistère Dept. (9)
  • Gard Dept. (6)
  • Gironde Dept. (9)
  • Gironne Dept. (1)
  • Haut-Rhin Dept. (2)
  • Haute-Corse Dept. (5)
  • Haute-Pyrénées Dept. (1)
  • Haute-Savoie Dept. (1)
  • Hautes-Alpes Dept. (2)
  • Hautes-Pyrénées Dept. (7)
  • Hauts-de-Seine Dept. (2)
  • Hérault Dept. (35)
  • Ille-et Vilaine Dept. (5)
  • Ille-et-Vilaine Dept. (5)
  • Indre Dept. (1)
  • Indre-et Loire Dept. (1)
  • Isère Dept. (6)
  • Jura Dept. (3)
  • Loir-et Cher Dept. (1)
  • Loir-et-Cher Dept. (3)
  • Loire Dept. (3)
  • Loire-Atlantique Dept. (2)
  • Loiret Dept. (7)
  • Maine-et-Loire Dept. (2)
  • Manche Dept. (4)
  • Marne Dept. (31)
  • Morbihan Dept. (7)
  • Moselle Dept. (6)
  • Oise Dept. (3)
  • Pas-de Calais Dept. (2)
  • Pas-de-Calais Dept. (5)
  • Provence Dept. (1)
  • Pyrénées-Atlantique Dept. (1)
  • Pyrénées-Atlantiques Dept (3)
  • Pyrénées-Orientales Dept. (3)
  • Rhône Dept. (15)
  • Savoie Dept. (2)
  • Saône-et-Loire Dept. (1)
  • Seine Et Oise Dept. (1)
  • Seine-Maritime Dept. (14)
  • Seine-Maritimes Dept. (1)
  • Seine-Martime Dept. (1)
  • Seine-St.-Denis Dept. (1)
  • Seine-et-Marne Dept. (1)
  • Vancluse Dept. (1)
  • Var Dept. (27)
  • Vaucluse Dept. (14)
  • Vendée Dept. (4)
  • Ville-de Paris Dept. (2)
  • Ville-de-Paris Dept. (2)
  • Yvelines Dept. (4)
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology through an award titled "Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics: Integrative Research and Training in Tropical Taxonomy" (DEB-1456674). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.