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
  • Acusta (14)
  • Aegista (81)
  • Anixa (7)
  • Bradybaena (387)
  • Calocochlea (228)
  • Calocochlia (91)
  • Canistrum (41)
  • Cathaica (17)
  • Chalepotaxis (4)
  • Chloraea (240)
  • Chrysallis (85)
  • Coccoglypta (4)
  • Cochlodryas (7)
  • Cochlostyla (193)
  • Corasia (1)
  • Dolicheulota (3)
  • Dryocochlias (1)
  • Euhadra (93)
  • Eulota (24)
  • Fruticicola (5)
  • Helicobulinus (4)
  • Helicostyla (875)
  • Hypselostyla (8)
  • Karaftohelix (1)
  • Laeocathaica (37)
  • Mandarina (11)
  • Mesanella (210)
  • Metodontia (1)
  • Monadenia (164)
  • Nesiohelix (4)
  • Phaeohelix (1)
  • Phengus (8)
  • Phoenicobius (51)
  • Plectotropis (40)
  • Pseudiberus (1)
  • Pseudobuliminus (15)
  • Pyrochilus (1)
  • Trachystyla (3)
  • Tricheulota (3)
  • Trichocathaica (1)
  • Trishoplita (30)
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.