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
  • Anctus (17)
  • Anostoma (22)
  • Auris (27)
  • Berendtia (6)
  • Bilamelliferus (1)
  • Bostryx (251)
  • Bulimulus (879)
  • Clessinia (2)
  • Cochlorina (32)
  • Cyclodontina (11)
  • Discoleus (1)
  • Drymaeus (1993)
  • Eudolichotis (7)
  • Gaeotis (5)
  • Hyperaulax (3)
  • Kora (1)
  • Leiostracus (21)
  • Naesiotus (224)
  • Neopetraeus (57)
  • Newboldius (1)
  • Otostomus (6)
  • Oxychona (14)
  • Placostylus (356)
  • Plagiodontes (30)
  • Plectostylus (50)
  • Prestonella (2)
  • Protoglyptus (3)
  • Pseudoxychona (1)
  • Rabdotus (463)
  • Scalarinella (1)
  • Scutalus (137)
  • Spartocentrum (9)
  • Sphaeroconcha (1)
  • Spixia (22)
  • Stenostylus (3)
  • Thaumastus (57)
  • Tomigerus (16)
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.