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
  • Aclyvolva (2)
  • Amonovula (1)
  • Aperiovula (3)
  • Calcarovula (4)
  • Calpurnus (68)
  • Carpiscula (1)
  • Contrasimnia (2)
  • Crenavolva (22)
  • Cuspivolva (4)
  • Cymbovula (15)
  • Cyphoma (428)
  • Dentiovula (13)
  • Diminovula (17)
  • Dissona (1)
  • Galera (1)
  • Globovula (5)
  • Hiatavolva (7)
  • Margovula (14)
  • Naviculavolva (3)
  • Neosimnia (44)
  • Ovula (73)
  • Pellasimnia (2)
  • Phenacovolva (46)
  • Primovula (36)
  • Prionovolva (4)
  • Procalpurnus (2)
  • Prosimnia (7)
  • Pseudocypraea (4)
  • Pseudosimnia (19)
  • Rotaovula (2)
  • Serratovolva (2)
  • Simnia (148)
  • Simnialena (30)
  • Testudovolva (1)
  • Volva (16)
  • Xandarovula (2)
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.