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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 - Tennessee
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Anderson (21)
  • Anderson-Morgan (1)
  • Bedford (26)
  • Benton (17)
  • Benton-Humphreys (1)
  • Bledsoe (12)
  • Blount (58)
  • Blount-Monroe (1)
  • Bradley (140)
  • Campbell (6)
  • Cannon (1)
  • Carter (9)
  • Cheatham (9)
  • Claiborne (101)
  • Claiborne-Grainger (6)
  • Clay (1)
  • Cocke (3)
  • Cocke-Greene (2)
  • Cocke-Hamblen (4)
  • Cocke-Hamblin (2)
  • Coffee (17)
  • Coffee-Franklin (6)
  • Cumberland (38)
  • Cumberland-Roane (2)
  • Davidson (17)
  • Decatur-Hardin (2)
  • Dekalb (6)
  • Dickson (3)
  • Fentress (6)
  • Fentress-Morgan (11)
  • Fentress-Scott (1)
  • Franklin (84)
  • Franklin-Marion (1)
  • Franklin-Moore (4)
  • Giles (9)
  • Grainger (15)
  • Greene (22)
  • Greene-Washington (5)
  • Grundy (12)
  • Hamblen (12)
  • Hamilton (48)
  • Hamilton-Meigs (1)
  • Hancock (676)
  • Hardin (83)
  • Hawkins (37)
  • Haywood (5)
  • Henry (5)
  • Henry-Stewart (1)
  • Hickman (22)
  • Houston (7)
  • Humphreys (45)
  • Jackson (2)
  • Jefferson (26)
  • Johnson (6)
  • Knox (78)
  • Lake (1)
  • Lauderdale-Tipton (1)
  • Lawrence (7)
  • Lewis (5)
  • Lewis-Wayne (2)
  • Lincoln (17)
  • Lincoln-Moore (1)
  • Loudon (47)
  • Macon (4)
  • Madison-Haywood (4)
  • Marion (81)
  • Marshall (255)
  • Maury (91)
  • McMinn (55)
  • Meigs (39)
  • Meigs-Rhea (5)
  • Meigs-Roane (1)
  • Monroe (65)
  • Montgomery (24)
  • Morgan (32)
  • Obion (3)
  • Overton (8)
  • Perry (31)
  • Pickett (2)
  • Polk (164)
  • Putnam (3)
  • Rhea (15)
  • Rhea-Roane (8)
  • Roane (20)
  • Robertson (6)
  • Rutherford (35)
  • Scott (49)
  • Sevier (14)
  • Smith (22)
  • Stewart (3)
  • Sullivan (16)
  • Tipton (7)
  • Trousdale (1)
  • Unicoi (8)
  • Union (10)
  • Van Buren (24)
  • Van Buren-White (4)
  • Warren (55)
  • Washington (4)
  • Wayne (9)
  • White (9)
  • Williamson (12)
  • Wilson (4)