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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
Homepage: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/malacology/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 707,669 specimen records
  • 412,043 (58%) georeferenced
  • 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
  • 454,032 (64%) identified to species
  • 1,781 families
  • 8,559 genera
  • 36,956 species
  • 39,126 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Abbottella (181)
  • Adamsiella (176)
  • Annularia (142)
  • Annularisca (3)
  • Articulipoma (3)
  • Blaesospira (21)
  • Choanopoma (205)
  • Chondropoma (1160)
  • Chondropomella (4)
  • Chondropometes (155)
  • Chondropomium (27)
  • Chondrothyra (125)
  • Chondrothyrella (8)
  • Chondrothyretes (168)
  • Chondrothyrium (8)
  • Christophipoma (1)
  • Cistula (1)
  • Cistulops (4)
  • Clydonopoma (27)
  • Colobostylus (163)
  • Colonella (7)
  • Colonina (7)
  • Crossepoma (19)
  • Ctenopoma (15)
  • Dallsiphona (3)
  • Diplopoma (20)
  • Eutudora (10)
  • Eutudorops (1)
  • Eyerdamia (11)
  • Gouldipoma (19)
  • Haitipoma (34)
  • Halotudora (3)
  • Hispanipoma (21)
  • Kisslingia (39)
  • Klattea (12)
  • Lagopoma (6)
  • Leiabbottella (7)
  • Licina (94)
  • Meganipha (7)
  • Opisthocoelicum (1)
  • Opisthosiphon (210)
  • Orcuttipoma (12)
  • Parachondria (197)
  • Parachondrops (3)
  • Paradoxipoma (5)
  • Petasipoma (6)
  • Ramsdenia (19)
  • Rhytidopoma (41)
  • Rhytidothyra (30)
  • Rolleia (14)
  • Sallepoma (8)
  • Tessaripoma (3)
  • Torrella (6)
  • Troschelvindex (14)
  • Tudora (51)
  • Turrithyra (42)
  • Weinlandipoma (143)
  • Xenopoma (27)
  • Xenopomoides (3)
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.