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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
Homepage: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/malacology/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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
  • Actaea (61)
  • Actaeinae (140)
  • Actaeodes (189)
  • Actiomera (1)
  • Alainodaeus (1)
  • Atergatis (86)
  • Atergatopsis (8)
  • Banareia (13)
  • Banareia HAW01 (1)
  • Bruciana (1)
  • Calvactaea (2)
  • Carpoporus (4)
  • Cataleptodius (16)
  • Chlorodiella (810)
  • Chlorodiellinae (15)
  • Cranaothus (4)
  • Crosnierius (4)
  • Cyclodius (355)
  • Cymo (129)
  • Danielea (12)
  • Demania (2)
  • Epiactaea (58)
  • Epiactaeodes (5)
  • Etisinae (36)
  • Etisus (454)
  • Eurytium (5)
  • Euxanthinae (10)
  • Euxanthus (46)
  • Euxanthus HAW01 (4)
  • Forestiana (1)
  • Gaillardiellus (15)
  • Garthiella (51)
  • Garthiope (1)
  • Glyptoxanthus (5)
  • Gonopanope (1)
  • Guitonia (15)
  • Heteractaea (1)
  • Hypocolpus (14)
  • Jacforus (2)
  • Juxtaxanthias (11)
  • Kraussia (19)
  • Kraussiinae (3)
  • Lachnopodus (95)
  • Leptodius (209)
  • Leptodius HAW01 (9)
  • Liagore (1)
  • Linnaeoxantho (4)
  • Liocarpilodes (218)
  • Liomera (498)
  • Liomerinae (21)
  • Lioxanthodes (9)
  • Lipkemera (2)
  • Lophozozymus (86)
  • Luniella (76)
  • Lybia (101)
  • Macromedaeus (50)
  • Marratha (1)
  • Medaeops (29)
  • Medaeus (54)
  • Melybia (4)
  • Meriola (1)
  • Metaxanthops (14)
  • Microcassiope (2)
  • Monodaeus (1)
  • Nanocassiope (46)
  • Neoliomera (82)
  • Neolioxantho (2)
  • Neoxanthias (10)
  • Neoxanthops (12)
  • Novactaea (17)
  • Olenothus (15)
  • Palapedia (58)
  • Paractaea (106)
  • Paractaeopsis (1)
  • Paraliomera (8)
  • Paramedaeus (27)
  • Paraxanthias (197)
  • Paraxanthodes (1)
  • Paretisus (2)
  • Pilodius (467)
  • Platyactaea (3)
  • Platypodia (75)
  • Platypodiella (2)
  • Polydectus (3)
  • Psaumis (69)
  • Pseudoliomera (128)
  • Pseudomedaeus (12)
  • Ratha (1)
  • Serenius (8)
  • Soliella (147)
  • Sulcodius (2)
  • Tweedieia (173)
  • Williamstimpsonia (3)
  • Xanthias (198)
  • Xanthinae (78)
  • Xantho (5)
  • Xanthodius (17)
  • Zalasiinae (8)
  • Zosiminae (17)
  • Zosimus (42)
  • Zozymodes (38)
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.