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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 - Mississippi
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Alcorn (3)
  • Bolivar (1)
  • Chickasaw (1)
  • Clarke (2)
  • Clay (1)
  • DeSoto (1)
  • Forrest (5)
  • Franklin (1)
  • Harrison (1)
  • Hinds (2)
  • Hinds-Rankin (3)
  • Hinds-Warren (2)
  • Issaquena (2)
  • Itawamba (18)
  • Jackson (34)
  • Jones (17)
  • Lamar (2)
  • Lauderdale (11)
  • Lawrence (2)
  • Leflore (2)
  • Lowndes (72)
  • Lowndes-Monroe (3)
  • Madison (4)
  • Marshall (1)
  • Monroe (7)
  • Newton (4)
  • Noxubee (2)
  • Pearl River (13)
  • Perry (3)
  • Pike (1)
  • Rankin (4)
  • Sharkey (3)
  • Sunflower (44)
  • Tishomingo (12)
  • Tunica (1)
  • Warren (6)
  • Washington (1)