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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences - Mollusk Collection (NCSM-UNIO)

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Invertebrates Collection is comprised of more than 35,000 specimens, covering 85 countries around the world.
Contacts: Jamie Smith, jamie.smith@naturalsciences.org
Homepage: https://naturalsciences.org/research-collections/collections/mollusks-collection
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 August 2023
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Collection Statistics
  • 38,072 specimen records
  • 32,211 (85%) georeferenced
  • 34,150 (90%) identified to species
  • 278 families
  • 835 genera
  • 1,865 species
  • 1,940 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Louisiana
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Acadia (1)
  • Allen (1)
  • Assumption (2)
  • Beauregard (3)
  • Caldwell (1)
  • Catahoula (1)
  • Claiborne (3)
  • Concordia (1)
  • De Soto (2)
  • Evangeline-Saint Landry (2)
  • Grant (6)
  • Iberville (4)
  • Jefferson (1)
  • La Salle (1)
  • Lafayette (5)
  • Lafourche (2)
  • Lincoln (1)
  • Madison (2)
  • Madison-Tensas (2)
  • Natchitoches (2)
  • Orleans (5)
  • Ouachita (4)
  • Rapides (5)
  • Saint Helena (2)
  • Saint Landry (8)
  • Saint Martin (2)
  • Saint Tammany (2)
  • Tangipahoa (3)
  • Terrebonne (8)
  • Union (2)
  • Vernon (3)
  • Washington (2)
  • West Baton Rouge (3)