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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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  ID Part Object Taxonomy Type Date Added Publication Status  
000480446 entire specimen UF:Invertebrate Zoology:193260-Mollusca Charonia variegata Photogrammetry Image Series 2022-11-04 Restricted Download  
000480445 entire specimen UF:Invertebrate Zoology:152936-Mollusca Natica canrena Photogrammetry Image Series 2022-11-04 Restricted Download  
000480440 entire specimen UF:Invertebrate Zoology:124849-Mollusca Fulguropsis pyruloides Mesh 2022-11-04 Restricted Download  
000480439 entire specimen UF:IZ:26559-mollusca Macrocallista nimbosa Mesh 2022-11-04 Restricted Download  
000480434 entire specimen UF:Invertebrate Zoology:124849-Mollusca Fulguropsis pyruloides Photogrammetry Image Series 2022-11-04 Restricted Download  
000480433 entire specimen UF:IZ:26559-mollusca Macrocallista nimbosa Photogrammetry Image Series 2022-11-04 Restricted Download  
000459426 UF:Invertebrate Zoology:2513-Mollusca Astraea tuber Photogrammetry Image Series 2022-09-06 Restricted Download  
000458447 Shell UF:Invertebrate Zoology:2513-Mollusca Astraea tuber Mesh 2022-08-31 Restricted Download  
000458292 entire specimen UF:Invertebrate Zoology:169159-Mollusca Epitonium scalare Mesh 2022-08-30 Restricted Download  
000458258 UF:Invertebrate Zoology:169159-Mollusca Epitonium scalare Photogrammetry Image Series 2022-08-30 Restricted Download  
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