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UF Invertebrate Zoology

Specimen Records: 733,090
Media Records: 52,555
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-12-01

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  i675931
92.203
dwc_datasetid_added  i618140
84.32
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i618140
84.32
dwc_taxonid_added  i618140
84.32
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i618140
84.32
dwc_taxonrank_added  i618140
84.32
gbif_canonicalname_added  i618140
84.32
gbif_genericname_added  i618140
84.32
gbif_taxon_corrected  i618140
84.32
gbif_reference_added  i420499
57.36
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i403466
55.036
dwc_country_replaced  i275534
37.585
dwc_multimedia_added  i267274
36.459
gbif_vernacularname_added  i241009
32.876
dwc_continent_replaced  i206141
28.119
rev_geocode_eez  i203377
27.742
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i185618
25.32
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i180250
24.588
taxon_match_failed  i163184
22.26
dwc_order_replaced  i116399
15.878
geopoint_datum_missing  i96712
13.192
dwc_family_replaced  i85802
11.704
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i60784
8.291
dwc_genus_replaced  i39937
5.448
dwc_genus_added  i12120
1.653
dwc_class_replaced  i7368
1.005
geopoint_datum_error  i6801
0.928
rev_geocode_mismatch  i6087
0.83
geopoint_low_precision  i5852
0.798
dwc_order_added  i5013
0.684
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4329
0.591
dwc_phylum_replaced  i4156
0.567
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i4014
0.548
rev_geocode_corrected  i1807
0.246
dwc_family_added  i1790
0.244
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1369
0.187
dwc_class_added  i1336
0.182
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1068
0.146
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i895
0.122
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i856
0.117
rev_geocode_failure  i801
0.109
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i308
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  i4
0.001
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