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
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Allathelges (1)
  • Allodiplophryxus (1)
  • Allorbimorphus (2)
  • Anuropodione (3)
  • Aporobopyrina (7)
  • Aporobopyrus (12)
  • Argeia (5)
  • Asymmetrione (4)
  • Athelges (5)
  • Bopyrella (3)
  • Bopyrina (4)
  • Bopyrione (6)
  • Bopyrissa (4)
  • Bopyroides (10)
  • Bopyrus (1)
  • Cancricepon (9)
  • Cataphryxus (1)
  • Dactylokepon (3)
  • Gigantione (5)
  • Hemiarthrinae (4)
  • Hemiarthrus (3)
  • Hyperphrixus (1)
  • Ione (4)
  • Ionella (1)
  • Lobocepon (1)
  • Loki (1)
  • Mediophrixus (1)
  • Megacepon (2)
  • Metaphrixus (1)
  • Munidion (2)
  • Orbimorphus (3)
  • Orthione (5)
  • Parabopyrella (14)
  • Paracepon (1)
  • Parapagurion (1)
  • Parapenaeon (1)
  • Parapleurocrypta (3)
  • Parapleurocryptella (2)
  • Parathelges (1)
  • Parione (2)
  • Parioninella (2)
  • Pleurocryptella (5)
  • Probopyrinella (2)
  • Probopyrione (1)
  • Probopyrus (3)
  • Progebiophilus (4)
  • Pseudione (3)
  • Pseudionella (1)
  • Pseudostegias (1)
  • Schizobopyrina (6)
  • Scyracepon (2)
  • Stegoalpheon (2)
  • Synsynella (10)
  • Trapezicepon (1)
  • Tylokepon (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.