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
  • Chionoecetes (7)
  • Coelocerus (1)
  • Cyclax (67)
  • Cyphocarcinus (2)
  • Cyrtomaia (4)
  • Damithrax (33)
  • Hemus (6)
  • Herbstia (12)
  • Kasagia (1)
  • Macrocoeloma (99)
  • Maja (2)
  • Micippa (46)
  • Microphrys (25)
  • Mithraculus (104)
  • Mithrax (155)
  • Nemausa (34)
  • Omalacantha (67)
  • Pseudomicippe (8)
  • Schizophroida (20)
  • Schizophrys (190)
  • Stenocionops (27)
  • Thersandrus (1)
  • Thoe (18)
  • Tiarinia (11)
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.