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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
  • Acanthoptyx (2)
  • Aeschrodomus (3)
  • Afrodonta (1)
  • Allodiscus (22)
  • Andrefrancia (29)
  • Beilania (6)
  • Cavellia (8)
  • Chanomphalus (123)
  • Charopa (46)
  • Corinomala (1)
  • Cryptocharopa (1)
  • Discocharopa (104)
  • Egestula (3)
  • Fectola (17)
  • Flammulina (21)
  • Geminoropa (1)
  • Gerontia (1)
  • Godwinia (1)
  • Gyrocochlea (4)
  • Helenoconcha (4)
  • Himeroconcha (18)
  • Hirasea (14)
  • Ladronellum (6)
  • Lauopa (1)
  • Libera (48)
  • Lilloiconcha (1)
  • Micromphalia (1)
  • Mocella (6)
  • Monomphalus (1)
  • Notodiscus (1)
  • Oreomava (1)
  • Palline (35)
  • Pararhytida (13)
  • Paryphantopsis (113)
  • Pernagera (4)
  • Pernastela (1)
  • Phacussa (11)
  • Phasis (4)
  • Phenacharopa (5)
  • Phenacohelix (21)
  • Pillomena (2)
  • Pilsbrycharopa (45)
  • Pilula (5)
  • Platyrhytida (12)
  • Ptychodon (15)
  • Pulchridomus (1)
  • Reticharopa (82)
  • Reticulapex (476)
  • Rhophodon (1)
  • Rotadiscus (52)
  • Semperdon (224)
  • Serpho (7)
  • Sinployea (68)
  • Subfectola (1)
  • Suteria (8)
  • Thalassohelix (9)
  • Therasia (10)
  • Therasiella (15)
  • Trachycystis (26)
  • Tropidotropis (1)
  • Vatusila (29)
  • Zilchogyra (1)
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.