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
  • Alcadia (731)
  • Aphanoconia (51)
  • Bourciera (18)
  • Ceochasma (4)
  • Ceratodiscus (94)
  • Ceratopoma (11)
  • Emoda (361)
  • Eutrochatella (615)
  • Geophorus (168)
  • Geotrochatella (23)
  • Glyptemoda (13)
  • Helicina (2337)
  • Hemipoma (1)
  • Hendersonia (60)
  • Lucidella (972)
  • Nesiocina (1)
  • Ogasawarana (2)
  • Oligyra (623)
  • Orobophana (70)
  • Palaeohelicina (201)
  • Pleuropoma (290)
  • Priotrochatella (37)
  • Pseudotrochatella (1)
  • Pyrgodomus (141)
  • Schasicheila (291)
  • Sturanya (27)
  • Sulfurina (187)
  • Ustronia (1)
  • Viana (326)
  • Waldemaria (15)
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.