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
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.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - FLORIDA
Click on the specimen record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that term
Alachua (12 ) Bay (185 ) Brevard (504 ) Broward (440 ) Calhoun (255 ) Caloosahatchee River (1 ) Central Everglades (3 ) Central Florida (1 ) Charlotte (144 ) Citrus (98 ) Clay (4 ) Collier (1602 ) Columbia (4 ) DeSoto (449 ) Dixie (4 ) Duval (82 ) E Florida (4 ) E Gulf of Mexico (1 ) E coast of Florida (21 ) E coast of central Florida (2 ) Eastern Florida (3 ) Escambia (36 ) Everglades (35 ) Everglades National Park (18 ) Flagler (13 ) Florida Everglades (1 ) Florida Panhandle (2 ) Franklin (73 ) Gadsden (7 ) Glades (32 ) Gulf (298 ) Hamilton (2 ) Hendry (763 ) Hernando (14 ) Highlands (180 ) Hillsborough (645 ) Indian River (29 ) Jackson (6 ) Lake (4 ) Lee (9244 ) Leon (4 ) Levy (252 ) Liberty (60 ) Lower Florida E Coast (1 ) Madison (8 ) Manatee (121 ) Marion (6 ) Martin (456 ) Miami-Dade (636 ) Monroe (5508 ) N Florida (1 ) NE Florida coast (2 ) NW Florida (6 ) NW Florida Panhandle (2 ) Nassau (45 ) Near Florida (1 ) Northeast Florida (2 ) Off E Florida (1 ) Off SE Coast of Florida (1 ) Okaloosa (24 ) Okeechobee (586 ) Orange (21 ) Osceola (8 ) Palm Beach (2484 ) Pasco (15 ) Pinellas (1068 ) Polk (1 ) Putnam (8 ) S Everglades (1 ) S Florida (5 ) S.E. Florida beach (2 ) SE Florida (7 ) SW Florida (14 ) SW Florida Coast (1 ) SW Florida Everglades (1 ) Santa Rosa (3 ) Sarasota (3063 ) Seminole (5 ) South Florida (3 ) Southern Everglades (9 ) Southern Florida (2 ) St. Clair (1 ) St. Johns (266 ) St. Lucie (57 ) Sumter (5 ) Suwannee (1 ) Taylor (4 ) Union (1 ) Volusia (135 ) W Florida (12 ) W coast of Florida (12 ) Wakulla (10 ) Walton (2 ) West Coast (4 ) Western Florida (3 )
