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Field Museum of Natural History - Mollusks (F-M)

At present the Division of Invertebrates, which began with a collection of 16,000 lots, manages ca. 340,000 cataloged mollusk lots, with approximately 4.5 million specimens. Our molluscan collection now ranks among the top three or four in North America.
Contact: Jochen Gerber, Collections Manager III (jgerber@fieldmuseum.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 July 2016
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 6,438 occurrence
  • 159 (2%) georeferenced
  • 6,044 (94%) identified to species
  • 10 families
  • 12 genera
  • 140 species
  • 140 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution
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