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
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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.)