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
  • Adelomelon (57)
  • Alcithoe (62)
  • Amoria (161)
  • Ampulla (4)
  • Arctomelon (2)
  • Athleta (12)
  • Calliotectum (4)
  • Callipara (13)
  • Cymbiola (285)
  • Cymbiolacca (40)
  • Cymbiolista (16)
  • Cymbium (44)
  • Enaeta (69)
  • Ericusa (55)
  • Festilyria (22)
  • Fulgoraria (75)
  • Fusivoluta (12)
  • Harpovoluta (2)
  • Harpulina (21)
  • Iredalina (7)
  • Livonia (24)
  • Lyria (77)
  • Melo (61)
  • Minicymbiola (1)
  • Nannamoria (7)
  • Neptuneopsis (9)
  • Notopeplum (1)
  • Notovoluta (8)
  • Odontocymbiola (16)
  • Provocator (6)
  • Scaphella (456)
  • Teramachia (7)
  • Teremelon (1)
  • Voluta (142)
  • Volutifusus (1)
  • Volutoconus (23)
  • Volutocorbis (17)
  • Zidona (31)
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.