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.
Published: February 02, 2026 at 05:01
URL: https://ipt.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ipt/resource?r=invertebratezoology
Gustav Paulay
Florida Museum of Natural History
Warren Brown
Florida Museum of Natural History
| Field | Missing | Invalid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | 733,452 |
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| decimalLatitude | 269,187 | 38 |
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| decimalLongitude | 269,188 | 38 |
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| eventDate | 190,209 | 46,690 |
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| maximumDepthInMeters | 733,452 |
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| minimumDepthInMeters | 733,452 |
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| occurrenceStatus | 733,452 |
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| scientificNameID | 733,452 |
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
| Flag | Dropped | Records | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NO_DEPTH | 733,452 |
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| NO_COORD | 269,227 |
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| NOT_MARINE | 227,753 |
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| ON_LAND | 224,590 |
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| NO_MATCH | 96,010 |
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| MARINE_UNSURE | 2,925 |
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| NO_ACCEPTED_NAME | 2,294 |
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| WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE | 286 |
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| DATE_BEFORE_MIN | 71 |
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| LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE | 38 |
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| LON_OUT_OF_RANGE | 38 |
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| WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS | 25 |
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| DATE_IN_FUTURE | 11 |
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