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
  • Acanthozoon (3)
  • Maiazoon (2)
  • Maritigrella (2)
  • Phrikoceros (6)
  • Phrikoceros 1 Of Hoover Accessed 2020 (1)
  • Pseudobiceros (77)
  • Pseudobiceros 11 Of Hoover Accessed 2020 (2)
  • Pseudoceros (194)
  • Pseudoceros E Of Hoover Accessed 2020 (1)
  • Pseudoceros Sp. 17 Of Newman & Cannon (1)
  • Thysanozoon (80)
  • Thysanozoon A Of Hoover Accessed 2020 (1)
  • Tytthosoceros (2)
  • [Pseudocerotidae] HAW01 (1)
  • [Pseudocerotidae] HAW02 (1)
  • [Pseudocerotidae] HAW03 (2)
  • [Pseudocerotidae] HAW04 (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.