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 May 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
- 707,792 specimen records
- 412,166 (58%) georeferenced
- 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
- 454,210 (64%) identified to species
- 1,781 families
- 8,559 genera
- 36,966 species
- 39,136 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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.