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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 - Kentucky
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
  • Allen (1)
  • Bath (10)
  • Bell (4)
  • Bourbon (1)
  • Breathitt (2)
  • Bullitt (1)
  • Bullitt-Oldham (6)
  • Butler (3)
  • Butler-Muhlenburg (11)
  • Butler-Ohio (1)
  • Butler-Warren (4)
  • Calloway (12)
  • Carter (3)
  • Casey (5)
  • Christian (1)
  • Clay (5)
  • Clinton (1)
  • Cumberland (4)
  • Daviess (4)
  • Edmonson (3)
  • Elliott (2)
  • Estill (4)
  • Fayette (1)
  • Franklin (3)
  • Grayson-Hart (2)
  • Green (11)
  • Harlan (20)
  • Hart (20)
  • Henry (1)
  • Jackson (16)
  • Jefferson (1)
  • Knox (3)
  • Laurel-Rockcastle (5)
  • Lee (1)
  • Livingston (3)
  • Logan (4)
  • Lyon (10)
  • Madison (3)
  • McCracken (3)
  • McCreary (22)
  • McCreary-Wayne (35)
  • Meade (1)
  • Menifee-Powell (5)
  • Mercer (1)
  • Monroe (1)
  • Morgan (6)
  • Morgan-Rowan (3)
  • Nicholas (1)
  • Ohio (14)
  • Oldham (2)
  • Owen (1)
  • Owsley (3)
  • Pendleton (28)
  • Powell (4)
  • Pulaski (37)
  • Rockcastle (10)
  • Russell (1)
  • Simpson (2)
  • Spencer (1)
  • Taylor (1)
  • Todd (3)
  • Trigg (3)
  • Warren (12)
  • Wayne (16)
  • Whitley (7)