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University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History
FLMNH Division of Invertebrate Zoology Organization Team Managed
452 Media · 213 Specimens · Managed by: Edward Stanley, John Slapcinsky, Digital Imaging Florida Museum

The Florida Museum is the largest natural history museum in the southeastern U.S. and collections are especially strong in regional taxa. Malacology has one of the largest collections of terrestrial and freshwater mollusks from the southeastern US. Overall marine mollusks comprise 38% of catalogued holdings, freshwater species make up 18%, and terrestrial taxa 44%. Gastropods comprise 83%, bivalves 16%, while all other mollusk classes combined <1% of the collection. Three quarters of the collection is from the New World, while 18% is from tropical Australasia and surrounding Pacific and Indian Ocean islands. The mollusk collection has unique strengths in land, freshwater and marine mollusks. The Florida Museum has the largest land snail collection in the world from Hispaniola, Mexico-Central America, Pakistan and Thailand, and also has especially large holdings from the southeastern United States, West Indies, Andean South America, Madagascar, SE Asia, and Oceania. Freshwater mollusk collections are strong for the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, Andean South America, and the Philippines. Large subtropical and tropical West Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific holdings characterize the marine collection, and tropical marine collections are undergoing rapid growth. These strengths reflect a former regional focus of the museum and research focus of the curators: on terrestrial and freshwater mollusks of Middle America and Southeast Asia, and on tropical marine mollusks, respectively.

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000617736 Entire specimen UF:Invertebrate Zoology:65160-Mollusca Fusconaia flava Photogrammetry Image Series 2024-04-01 Open Download  
000617744 Entire specimen UF:Invertebrate Zoology:65160-Mollusca Fusconaia flava Mesh 2024-04-01 Open Download  
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