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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 - Alabama
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Autauga-Dallas (7)
  • Baldwin (32)
  • Baldwin-Mobile (4)
  • Barbour (39)
  • Barbour-Pike (9)
  • Bibb (324)
  • Blount (30)
  • Blount-Cullman (3)
  • Bullock (9)
  • Butler (28)
  • Calhoun (54)
  • Calhoun-Saint Clair (7)
  • Chambers (2)
  • Cherokee (98)
  • Cherokee-Etowah (2)
  • Chilton (3)
  • Choctaw (2)
  • Choctaw-Marengo (6)
  • Clarke (14)
  • Clarke-Monroe (9)
  • Clarke-Washington (10)
  • Clay (1)
  • Cleburne (12)
  • Coffee (7)
  • Colbert (123)
  • Colbert-Franklin (2)
  • Colbert-Lauderdale (82)
  • Conecuh (60)
  • Conecuh-Covington (2)
  • Coosa (2)
  • Coosa-Shelby (3)
  • Covington (81)
  • Covington-Crenshaw (3)
  • Crenshaw (31)
  • Crenshaw-Pike (7)
  • Dale (12)
  • Dale-Houston (2)
  • Dallas (79)
  • Dekalb (47)
  • Elmore (18)
  • Elmore-Montgomery (3)
  • Escambia (51)
  • Etowah (14)
  • Etowah-Saint Clair (16)
  • Fayette (1)
  • Franklin (11)
  • Geneva (28)
  • Greene (50)
  • Greene-Pickens (90)
  • Greene-Sumter (14)
  • Hale (8)
  • Henry (12)
  • Houston (27)
  • Itawamba (1)
  • Jackson (183)
  • Jefferson (118)
  • Jefferson-Shelby (3)
  • Lamar (2)
  • Lauderdale (146)
  • Lauderdale-Lawrence (1)
  • Lawrence (32)
  • Lawrence-Limestone-Morgan (1)
  • Lee (11)
  • Limestone (61)
  • Limestone-Morgan (7)
  • Lowndes (16)
  • Lowndes-Montgomery (2)
  • Macon (6)
  • Madison (83)
  • Madison-Marshall (2)
  • Madison-Morgan (7)
  • Marengo (6)
  • Marengo-Sumter (5)
  • Marion (10)
  • Marshall (33)
  • Mobile (13)
  • Monroe (32)
  • Montgomery (5)
  • Morgan (41)
  • Perry (46)
  • Pickens (34)
  • Pike (23)
  • Randolph (3)
  • Russell (15)
  • Saint Clair (115)
  • Saint Clair-Talladega (39)
  • Shelby (192)
  • Shelby-Talladega (14)
  • Sumter (12)
  • Talladega (103)
  • Tallapoosa (17)
  • Tuscaloosa (32)
  • Walker (1)
  • Washington (3)
  • Wilcox (36)
  • Winston (28)