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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 - Michigan
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Alger (4)
  • Alpena (4)
  • Bay (3)
  • Benzie (9)
  • Calhoun (1)
  • Cass (1)
  • Cheboygan (47)
  • Chippewa (20)
  • Clare (6)
  • Clinton (7)
  • Crawford (9)
  • Delta (1)
  • Emmet (2)
  • Grand Traverse (2)
  • Hillsdale (7)
  • Ionia (1)
  • Iosco (1)
  • Isabella (2)
  • Kent (13)
  • Keweenaw (5)
  • Lenawee (8)
  • Livingston (4)
  • Mackinac (16)
  • Macomb (11)
  • Marquette (1)
  • Mecosta (3)
  • Monroe (3)
  • Montmorency (2)
  • Muskegon (2)
  • Newaygo (1)
  • Oakland (17)
  • Ottawa (4)
  • Presque Isle (5)
  • Roscommon (2)
  • Saint Clair (3)
  • Sanilac (2)
  • Schoolcraft (13)
  • Tuscola (10)
  • Washtenaw (14)
  • Wayne (6)