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 May 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 707,792 specimen records
  • 412,166 (58%) georeferenced
  • 33,042 (5%) with images (40,211 total images)
  • 454,210 (64%) identified to species
  • 1,781 families
  • 8,559 genera
  • 36,966 species
  • 39,136 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Allocoptis (6)
  • Amphicosmia (2)
  • Anisospira (59)
  • Anoma (46)
  • Apoma (14)
  • Arangia (21)
  • Archegocoptis (77)
  • Autocoptis (477)
  • Badiofaux (3)
  • Bostrichocentrum (46)
  • Brachypodella (852)
  • Callonia (28)
  • Centralia (17)
  • Cochlodinella (122)
  • Coelocentrum (174)
  • Coelostemma (161)
  • Cylindrella (18)
  • Dissotropis (15)
  • Geoscala (3)
  • Gongylostoma (130)
  • Gyraxis (20)
  • Haplocion (27)
  • Hendersoniella (23)
  • Heterocoptis (4)
  • Holospira (406)
  • Idiostemma (63)
  • Liocallonia (2)
  • Macroceramus (622)
  • Metastoma (20)
  • Microceramus (662)
  • Mychostoma (2)
  • Nesocoptis (13)
  • Nodulia (7)
  • Oligostylus (1)
  • Organocoptis (5)
  • Pfeiffericoptis (5)
  • Pineria (12)
  • Poecilocoptis (8)
  • Poeycoptis (5)
  • Pseudopineria (10)
  • Pycnoptychia (9)
  • Sagracoptis (2)
  • Spiroceramus (13)
  • Spirostemma (18)
  • Strophina (1)
  • Tetrentodon (61)
  • Tomelasmus (13)
  • Torrecoptis (39)
  • Trilamellaxis (3)
  • Uncinicoptis (6)
  • Urocoptis (418)
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.