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Florida Biodiversity Collection Marine Invertebrates (FWRI-FSBC I)

Dry and fluid preserved marine invertebrate specimens. Primarily from Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean, collected primarily from 1960s-present.

Curator: Paul Larson, paul.larson@myfwc.com (ORCID #: 0000-0002-4698-3124)
Homepage: https://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/specimen-collections/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 January 2024
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Address:
Florida Biodiversity Collection
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
100 8th Ave SE
St. Petersburg, FL   33701
United States
Collection Statistics
  • 169,215 specimen records
  • 162,588 (96%) georeferenced
  • 108,220 (64%) identified to species
  • 932 families
  • 2,558 genera
  • 4,198 species
  • 4,256 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.