Delaware Museum of Nature and Science – Mollusks
Citation
Delaware Museum of Nature & Science (2024). Delaware Museum of Nature and Science – Mollusks. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/lfwzak accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-09-05.Description
The Museum's mollusk collection consists of more than 2 million specimens, making it one of the largest in the United States. The 220,000 cataloged lots represent more than 18,000 species. Worldwide in scope and covering all seven living classes of mollusks, our holdings include marine gastropods (45%), land and freshwater gastropods (30%), marine bivalves (15%), freshwater bivalves (5%) and other (5%). The Museum's mollusk collection is primarily dry shells, with some alcohol preserved cephalopod specimens. Most specimens are recent; however there is some Cenozoic fossil material. Our type collection contains more than 1,200 lots.Taxonomic Coverages
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metadata author
Invert-E-Base Portal
email: egbot@asu.edu
homepage: https://invertebase.org/portal/index.php
administrative point of contact
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science – Mollusks
email: eshea@delmns.org
homepage: http://www.delmns.org/mollusks/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5379-8410
Elizabeth Shea
content provider
email: eshea@delmns.org
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5379-8410
Alex Kittle
content provider
position: Sr. Colln Mgr
email: akittle@delmns.org