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: 1 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
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
  • Acroptychia (471)
  • Anosycolus (15)
  • Aulopoma (20)
  • Caspicyclotus (2)
  • Chamalycaeus (83)
  • Chondrocyclus (44)
  • Cochlostoma (95)
  • Craspedopoma (7)
  • Craspedotropis (1)
  • Crossopoma (11)
  • Cyathopoma (1983)
  • Cyclohelix (7)
  • Cyclophorus (1145)
  • Cyclotus (392)
  • Cytora (16)
  • Dicharax (40)
  • Dioryx (147)
  • Ditropopsis (29)
  • Japonia (192)
  • Lagocheilus (36)
  • Leptopoma (595)
  • Leptopomoides (36)
  • Madgeaconcha (2)
  • Malarinia (3)
  • Metalycaeus (4)
  • Micraulax (18)
  • Millotorbis (26)
  • Mychopoma (3)
  • Nakadaella (1)
  • Opisthoporus (151)
  • Owengriffithsius (54)
  • Pearsonia (9)
  • Platyrhaphe (213)
  • Pterocyclos (102)
  • Ptychopoma (3)
  • Rhiostoma (190)
  • Scabrina (54)
  • Spirostoma (15)
  • Theobaldius (39)
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.