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UF Invertebrate Zoology

Specimen Records: 730,107
Media Records: 102,215
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-08-22

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  i671867
92.023
dwc_datasetid_added  i615614
84.318
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i615614
84.318
dwc_taxonid_added  i615614
84.318
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i615614
84.318
dwc_taxonrank_added  i615614
84.318
gbif_canonicalname_added  i615614
84.318
gbif_genericname_added  i615614
84.318
gbif_taxon_corrected  i615614
84.318
gbif_reference_added  i418299
57.293
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i402364
55.11
dwc_country_replaced  i273072
37.402
dwc_multimedia_added  i266714
36.531
gbif_vernacularname_added  i240299
32.913
dwc_continent_replaced  i205892
28.2
rev_geocode_eez  i201063
27.539
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i184914
25.327
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i179092
24.53
taxon_match_failed  i163081
22.337
dwc_order_replaced  i116241
15.921
geopoint_datum_missing  i95628
13.098
dwc_family_replaced  i85654
11.732
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i60731
8.318
dwc_genus_replaced  i39838
5.456
dwc_genus_added  i12048
1.65
dwc_class_replaced  i8221
1.126
geopoint_datum_error  i6784
0.929
geopoint_low_precision  i5808
0.795
rev_geocode_mismatch  i5594
0.766
dwc_order_added  i4999
0.685
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4317
0.591
dwc_phylum_replaced  i4158
0.57
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i4009
0.549
rev_geocode_corrected  i1802
0.247
dwc_family_added  i1789
0.245
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1367
0.187
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1068
0.146
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i895
0.123
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i855
0.117
rev_geocode_failure  i794
0.109
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i305
0.042
dwc_class_added  i303
0.042
datecollected_bounds  i82
0.011
rev_geocode_both_sign  i64
0.009
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i61
0.008
rev_geocode_flip  i57
0.008
geopoint_bounds  i38
0.005
geopoint_similar_coord  i32
0.004
geopoint_0_coord  i13
0.002
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i9
0.001
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i6
0.001
dwc_continent_added  i3
0
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