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University of Florida Invertebrate Zoology (UF-INVERTEBRATES)

The UF Invertebrate collection holds ~580,000 databased lots of mollusks and marine invertebrates. It began as a Malacology collection almost 100 years ago and the collection is particularly strong in non-marine mollusks. Approximately ~85% of the holdings are mollusks but since 2000 the collection was expanded to cover all invertebrate phyla, focusing on marine taxa. Today it holds >40,000 species from 28 phyla.

Curator: Gustav Paulay, paulay@flmnh.ufl.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 June 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Collection Statistics
  • 131,767 specimen records
  • 78,012 (59%) georeferenced
  • 2,104 (2%) with images (4,437 total images)
  • 41,682 (32%) identified to species
  • 969 families
  • 988 genera
  • 1,901 species
  • 1,946 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Aesopus (24)
  • Alia (1)
  • Anachis (273)
  • Astyris (49)
  • Columbella (181)
  • Columbellopsis (1)
  • Cosmioconcha (3)
  • Costoanachis (311)
  • Cotonopsis (9)
  • Decipifus (6)
  • Mitrella (218)
  • Nitidella (43)
  • Parvanachis (88)
  • Suturoglypta (17)