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: 15 March 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 706,469 specimen records
  • 410,845 (58%) georeferenced
  • 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
  • 453,488 (64%) identified to species
  • 1,779 families
  • 8,555 genera
  • 36,936 species
  • 39,105 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Acromegalomma (7)
  • Anamobaea (3)
  • Bispira (13)
  • Branchiomma (26)
  • Branchiomma B Of Capa Et Al 2013 (1)
  • Chone (9)
  • Demonax (2)
  • Eudistylia (1)
  • Hypsicomus (1)
  • Jasmineira (1)
  • Megalomma (1)
  • Myxicola (10)
  • Notaulax HAW01 (3)
  • Paradialychone (9)
  • Parasabella (4)
  • Potamilla (3)
  • Pseudopotamilla (6)
  • Sabella (3)
  • Sabellastarte (28)
  • Schizobranchia (3)
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.