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Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum Mollusk Collection (BMNSM-BMSM)
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum collection currently encompasses about 133,000 catalogued lots, the collection consists of a vast majority of dry specimens and a small component of fluid-preserved material. The collection is worldwide in scope, but has a strong emphasis on material from Florida and the eastern seaboard of the US, and, in particular, Southwest Florida and the adjacent Gulf Mexico waters.
Science Director & Curator: José H. Leal, jleal@shellmuseum.org (ORCID #: 0000-0002-3786-0368)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 April 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)
Address:
Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road
Sanibel, FL 33957
United States
Collection Statistics
- 135,035 specimen records
- 34,820 (26%) georeferenced
- 3,267 (2%) with images (3,366 total images)
- 116,898 (87%) identified to species
- 505 families
- 3,259 genera
- 13,927 species
- 14,372 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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