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
  • Aclophora (8)
  • Bouchetriphora (11)
  • Cautor (9)
  • Cheirodonta (18)
  • Coriophora (24)
  • Cosmotriphora (39)
  • Costatophora (5)
  • Euthymella (36)
  • Eutriphora (9)
  • Inella (40)
  • Iniforis (147)
  • Isotriphora (29)
  • Latitriphora (13)
  • Liniphora (2)
  • Litharium (12)
  • Marshallora (113)
  • Mastonia (69)
  • Mastoniaeforis (5)
  • Mesophora (20)
  • Metaxia (40)
  • Monophorus (36)
  • Nanaphora (6)
  • Nototriphora (38)
  • Obesula (3)
  • Opimaphora (4)
  • Sagenotriphora (24)
  • Similiphora (12)
  • Subulophora (9)
  • Tetraphora (2)
  • Triphora (983)
  • Viriola (112)
  • Viriolopsis (4)
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.