Delaware Museum of Nature and Science – Mollusks
GBIF
Dataset type
This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.
Description
<p>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.</p>
Type of content
Includes: Point occurrence data, gbif import.Citation
Delaware Museum of Nature & Science (2025). Delaware Museum of Nature and Science – Mollusks. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/lfwzak accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-02-21.
Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the BioAtlas - Atlas bioraznolikosti Hrvatske. This resource was last checked for updated data on 21 Feb 2025. The most recent data was published on 15 Nov 2024.
Metadata last updated on 2025-02-21 16:58:33.0
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