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UF Invertebrate Zoology

Specimen Records: 727,791
Media Records: 83,068
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-22

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.

Contacts

Name Gustav Paulay
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailpaulay@flmnh.ufl.edu
Name Warren Brown
RoleIT Director
Emailnetadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu
Name Warren Brown
RoleIT Director
Emailnetadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu
Name Gustav Paulay
RoleCurator of Invertebrate Zoology
Emailpaulay@flmnh.ufl.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i669430
91.981
dwc_datasetid_added  i614161
84.387
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i614161
84.387
dwc_taxonid_added  i614161
84.387
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i614161
84.387
dwc_taxonrank_added  i614161
84.387
gbif_canonicalname_added  i614161
84.387
gbif_genericname_added  i614161
84.387
gbif_taxon_corrected  i614161
84.387
gbif_reference_added  i417396
57.351
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i401743
55.2
dwc_country_replaced  i271701
37.332
dwc_multimedia_added  i266554
36.625
gbif_vernacularname_added  i239878
32.96
dwc_continent_replaced  i204938
28.159
rev_geocode_eez  i200340
27.527
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i184497
25.35
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i178413
24.514
taxon_match_failed  i162833
22.374
dwc_order_replaced  i115893
15.924
geopoint_datum_missing  i93818
12.891
dwc_family_replaced  i85540
11.753
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i60685
8.338
dwc_genus_replaced  i39866
5.478
dwc_genus_added  i12006
1.65
dwc_class_replaced  i8183
1.124
geopoint_datum_error  i6784
0.932
geopoint_low_precision  i5844
0.803
rev_geocode_mismatch  i5698
0.783
dwc_order_added  i4989
0.685
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4295
0.59
dwc_phylum_replaced  i4128
0.567
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i3998
0.549
rev_geocode_corrected  i1908
0.262
dwc_family_added  i1787
0.246
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1491
0.205
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1069
0.147
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i982
0.135
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i895
0.123
rev_geocode_failure  i775
0.106
dwc_class_added  i300
0.041
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i296
0.041
datecollected_bounds  i81
0.011
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i61
0.008
rev_geocode_flip  i57
0.008
rev_geocode_both_sign  i54
0.007
geopoint_bounds  i38
0.005
geopoint_similar_coord  i32
0.004
geopoint_0_coord  i13
0.002
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.001
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i6
0.001
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