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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
  • Acanthophaedusa (1)
  • Agathylla (29)
  • Albinaria (95)
  • Alinda (3)
  • Alopia (61)
  • Andinia (6)
  • Andiniella (1)
  • Armenica (1)
  • Balea (33)
  • Barcania (2)
  • Bathyptychia (1)
  • Bequaertinenia (2)
  • Boettgeria (6)
  • Brevinenia (2)
  • Bulgarica (16)
  • Charpentieria (16)
  • Clausilia (485)
  • Cochlodina (83)
  • Columbinia (20)
  • Cristataria (19)
  • Cyclonenia (5)
  • Cylindronenia (13)
  • Cylindrophaedusa (12)
  • Dautzenbergiella (1)
  • Delima (59)
  • Ehrmanniella (5)
  • Elia (4)
  • Erjavecia (6)
  • Euphaedusa (30)
  • Euryptyxis (2)
  • Falsiluna (1)
  • Formosana (8)
  • Fusulus (1)
  • Galeata (1)
  • Garnieria (1)
  • Gibbularia (1)
  • Gracilinenia (1)
  • Graecophaedusa (1)
  • Grandinenia (3)
  • Hemicena (4)
  • Hemiphaedusa (29)
  • Herilla (17)
  • Idyla (3)
  • Incaglaia (16)
  • Incania (11)
  • Indonenia (2)
  • Isabellaria (22)
  • Itala (4)
  • Juttingia (1)
  • Laciniaria (33)
  • Lampedusa (1)
  • Leucostigma (19)
  • Lindholmiella (1)
  • Liparophaedusa (4)
  • Luchuphaedusa (3)
  • Macedonica (1)
  • Macrogastra (49)
  • Macrophaedusa (2)
  • Medora (21)
  • Megalophaedusa (12)
  • Mentissa (3)
  • Micropontica (1)
  • Montenegrina (15)
  • Mundiphaedusa (2)
  • Muticaria (4)
  • Nenia (33)
  • Neniops (3)
  • Nenisca (28)
  • Oospira (43)
  • Papillifera (51)
  • Paranenia (1)
  • Paraphaedusa (5)
  • Peruinia (9)
  • Phaedusa (61)
  • Pontophaedusa (1)
  • Pseudofusulus (3)
  • Pseudogracilinenia (4)
  • Pseudonenia (3)
  • Reinia (3)
  • Ruthenica (1)
  • Selenophaedusa (1)
  • Serrulina (4)
  • Siciliaria (5)
  • Steeriana (12)
  • Stereophaedusa (23)
  • Strigileuxina (2)
  • Symptychiella (1)
  • Synprosphyma (1)
  • Temesa (14)
  • Tropidauchenia (31)
  • Vestia (12)
  • Weyrauchiella (1)
  • Zaptyx (30)
  • Zilchiella (4)
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.