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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
  • Agatha (1)
  • Asmunda (1)
  • Bacteridium (29)
  • Boonea (93)
  • Careliopsis (13)
  • Chemnitzia (2)
  • Chrysallida (29)
  • Cingulina (24)
  • Cyclostremella (36)
  • Dunkeria (1)
  • Egila (3)
  • Egilina (1)
  • Elusa (1)
  • Eulimastoma (128)
  • Eulimella (5)
  • Evalea (8)
  • Fargoa (27)
  • Herviera (8)
  • Hinemoa (6)
  • Houbricka (4)
  • Iolaea (1)
  • Ivara (1)
  • Ividella (3)
  • Ividia (5)
  • Kleinella (1)
  • Lancea (1)
  • Leucotina (2)
  • Liamorpha (11)
  • Longchaeus (49)
  • Megastomia (10)
  • Menestho (6)
  • Milda (5)
  • Miralda (28)
  • Moerchia (1)
  • Mormula (2)
  • Mumiola (12)
  • Nesiodostomia (2)
  • Odostomella (18)
  • Odostomia (1288)
  • Ondina (3)
  • Orinella (5)
  • Oscilla (6)
  • Otopleura (119)
  • Parthenina (1)
  • Peristichia (62)
  • Petitilla (8)
  • Polyspirella (2)
  • Pseudorissoina (1)
  • Pseudoscilla (19)
  • Pyramidella (470)
  • Pyrgiscus (7)
  • Pyrgulina (5)
  • Rissopsetia (10)
  • Sayella (72)
  • Stylopsis (1)
  • Styloptygma (1)
  • Syrnola (24)
  • Tiberia (2)
  • Tibersyrnola (1)
  • Trabecula (3)
  • Triptychus (75)
  • Tropaeas (3)
  • Turbolidium (14)
  • Turbonilla (1666)
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.