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Auburn University Museum of Natural History Invertebrates (AUMNH-Invertebrates)

The Auburn University Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Collection consists of a wide range of taxa from all over the world. Our geographic foci lie in the Southeast U.S., with the great biodiversity of crayfish in Alabama, and in Antarctica. We have had several donations from private collections which have increased the geographic scope of the collection, but most of our accessions have been through University research and affiliated persons. The invertebrate collection contains representatives of most non-molluscan phyla, with a concentration in crayfish, echinoderms, and annelids.
Invertebrate Collections Manager: Nusrat Noor, njn0012@auburn.edu
Homepage: http://aumnh.auburn.edu/research-collections/invertebrate-zoology/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 September 2024
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
  • 14,569 specimen records
  • 12,768 (88%) georeferenced
  • 3,872 (27%) with images (5,207 total images)
  • 4,928 (34%) identified to species
  • 310 families
  • 579 genera
  • 670 species
  • 670 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution
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This project is supported by the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology through an award titled "Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics: Integrative Research and Training in Tropical Taxonomy" (DEB-1456674). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.