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
  • Artemon (6)
  • Bruggennea (1)
  • Diaphera (89)
  • Discartemon (63)
  • Edentulina (240)
  • Elma (7)
  • Ennea (15)
  • Fischerpietteus (190)
  • Gibbulinella (4)
  • Gibbus (24)
  • Glyptoconus (6)
  • Gonaxis (15)
  • Gonospira (100)
  • Gulella (1595)
  • Haploptychius (190)
  • Huttonella (8)
  • Imperturbatia (1)
  • Indoartemon (4)
  • Indoennea (6)
  • Microstrophia (10)
  • Odontartemon (1)
  • Oophana (17)
  • Parvedentulina (2127)
  • Perrottetia (5)
  • Platycochlium (7)
  • Pseudelma (3)
  • Ptychotrema (2)
  • Rectartemon (17)
  • Sinoennea (20)
  • Streptartemon (66)
  • Streptaxis (36)
  • Streptostele (74)
  • Tayloria (2)
  • Tomostele (7)
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.