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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 - South Carolina
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Abbeville (2)
  • Abbeville-McCormick (3)
  • Aiken (25)
  • Allendale (22)
  • Anderson (9)
  • Anderson-Greenville (4)
  • Bamberg (2)
  • Bamburg (1)
  • Barnwell (11)
  • Beaufort (18)
  • Berkeley (85)
  • Calhoun (14)
  • Calhoun-Richland (6)
  • Charleston (83)
  • Cherokee (3)
  • Cherokee-York (1)
  • Chester (26)
  • Chesterfield (50)
  • Chesterfield-Kershaw (6)
  • Chesterfield-Lancaster (33)
  • Chesterfield-Marlboro (16)
  • Clarendon (33)
  • Colleton (12)
  • Colleton-Dorchester (6)
  • Darlington (6)
  • Dorchester (12)
  • Edgefield (22)
  • Edgefield-McCormick (3)
  • Fairfield (5)
  • Florence (7)
  • Georgetown (19)
  • Greenville (18)
  • Greenville-Pickens (11)
  • Greenwood (36)
  • Hampton (14)
  • Horry (71)
  • Jasper (19)
  • Kershaw (14)
  • Lancaster (57)
  • Lancaster-York (1)
  • Laurens (17)
  • Lee (22)
  • Lexington (7)
  • Lexington-Richland (2)
  • Livingston (3)
  • Marion (4)
  • Marlboro (2)
  • McCormick (11)
  • Newberry (13)
  • Oconee (24)
  • Orangeburg (19)
  • Pickens (9)
  • Richland (51)
  • Saluda (16)
  • Spartanburg (5)
  • Sumter (11)
  • Williamsburg (15)
  • York (50)