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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
  • Achaiohydrobia (1)
  • Acme (1)
  • Amnicola (549)
  • Antrorbis (1)
  • Antroselates (4)
  • Apachecoccus (1)
  • Aphaostracon (128)
  • Aroapyrgus (157)
  • Birgella (66)
  • Bythinella (44)
  • Bythiospeum (4)
  • Cincinnatia (318)
  • Clappia (1)
  • Clenchiella (2)
  • Cochliopa (67)
  • Cochliopina (166)
  • Dasyscias (7)
  • Durangonella (4)
  • Ecrobia (4)
  • Emmericia (9)
  • Emmericiella (3)
  • Eremopyrgus (1)
  • Floridobia (207)
  • Fluminicola (94)
  • Fluviopupa (5)
  • Fontelicella (10)
  • Fontigens (32)
  • Gabbia (3)
  • Gillia (55)
  • Hadoceras (1)
  • Heleobia (35)
  • Heleobops (160)
  • Holsingeria (1)
  • Hyalopyrgus (3)
  • Hydrobia (81)
  • Hydrococcus (1)
  • Islamia (1)
  • Lacunopsis (1)
  • Leachia (1)
  • Lepyrium (12)
  • Lithococcus (24)
  • Lithoglyphus (21)
  • Littoridina (53)
  • Littoridinops (307)
  • Lyogyrus (170)
  • Marstonia (238)
  • Mesobia (3)
  • Mexipyrgus (6)
  • Nanivitrea (17)
  • Notogillia (300)
  • Nymphophilus (9)
  • Oncomelania (11)
  • Onobops (51)
  • Pachydrobiella (1)
  • Paludestrina (7)
  • Peringia (5)
  • Phreatodrobia (3)
  • Potamolithus (16)
  • Potamopyrgus (76)
  • Probythinella (33)
  • Pseudamnicola (8)
  • Pseudotryonia (13)
  • Pterides (2)
  • Pyrgophorus (397)
  • Pyrgula (10)
  • Pyrgulopsis (82)
  • Rachipteron (1)
  • Rhapinema (82)
  • Sadleriana (3)
  • Somatogyrus (595)
  • Spilochlamys (156)
  • Spurwinkia (41)
  • Stiobia (7)
  • Subcochliopa (8)
  • Taylorconcha (2)
  • Tepalcatia (12)
  • Texadina (41)
  • Texapyrgus (1)
  • Tricula (5)
  • Tryonia (79)
  • Vioscalba (2)
  • Yaquicoccus (2)
  • Zetekina (59)
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.