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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
  • Africofusus (4)
  • Apertifusus (2)
  • Aptyxis (2)
  • Aristofusus (5)
  • Aurantilaria (2)
  • Australaria (3)
  • Barbarofusus (1)
  • Bartschia (37)
  • Benimakia (10)
  • Bullockus (1)
  • Chryseofusus (2)
  • Cinctura (13)
  • Cyrtulus (5)
  • Dolicholatirus (68)
  • Enigmofusus (2)
  • Falsifusus (1)
  • Fasciolaria (612)
  • Filifusus (6)
  • Fusilatirus (2)
  • Fusinus (682)
  • Fusolatirus (4)
  • Glaphyrina (1)
  • Goniofusus (2)
  • Gracilipurpura (2)
  • Granolaria (7)
  • Granulifusus (4)
  • Heilprinia (8)
  • Hemipolygona (21)
  • Hesperaptyxis (3)
  • Kanamarua (6)
  • Kilburnia (1)
  • Lamellilatirus (1)
  • Latirolagena (5)
  • Latirulus (1)
  • Latirus (723)
  • Leucozonia (550)
  • Lightbournus (2)
  • Lugubrilaria (2)
  • Lyonsifusus (2)
  • Manaria (4)
  • Marmorofusus (4)
  • Metula (27)
  • Nodolatirus (4)
  • Opeatostoma (69)
  • Peristernia (421)
  • Peristerniinae (1)
  • Pleuroploca (312)
  • Polygona (18)
  • Propefusus (3)
  • Pseudolatirus (1)
  • Pustulatirus (11)
  • Sinistralia (4)
  • Tarantinaea (2)
  • Taron (7)
  • Teralatirus (14)
  • Triplofusus (11)
  • Turrilatirus (15)
  • Viridifusus (3)
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.