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Welcome to the On-line Database of The Field Museum's
Collection of Mollusks
Before you begin your search, please read the following
description of what is available in this database and what
information you will see displayed.
We have completed retrospective data entry for our holdings of
pulmonate terrestrial gastropods, the Leslie Hubricht Collection, the
marine gastropod family Conidae (including the Alan J. Kohn
Collection), the cephalopods and the hot-vent invertebrates. All
other taxa in the database have been added as parts of various ongoing
data capture projects and therefore should not be considered complete
representations of our holdings.
There are currently 158,385 records available on-line of a total of
169,069 records databased. Some records are not yet available on-line
because they are part of ongoing research projects or publications.
Currently, you have access to the following:
Terrestrial gastropod families:
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- Acavidae
- Achatinellidae
- Achatinidae
- Amastridae
- Ammonitellidae
- Athoracophoridae
- Bradybaenidae
- Buliminidae
- Camaenidae
- Caryodidae
- Cerastidae
- Ceriidae
- Charopidae
- Chondrinidae
- Clausiliidae
- Cochlicopidae
- Corillidae
- Discidae
- Dorcasiidae
- Endodontidae
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- Ferussaciidae
- Haplotrematidae
- Helicarionidae
- Helicidae
- Helicodiscidae
- Helminthoglyptidae
- Limacidae
- Macrocyclidae
- Megaspiridae
- Oleacinidae
- Onchidiidae
- Orculidae
- Oreohelicidae
- Parmacellidae
- Partulidae
- Philomycidae
- Pleurodiscidae
- Polygyridae
- Punctidae
- Pupillidae
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- Pyramidulidae
- Rathouisiidae
- Rhytididae
- Sagdidae
- Spiraxidae
- Streptaxidae
- Strobilopsidae
- Strophocheilidae
- Subulinidae
- Succineidae
- Systrophiidae
- Testacellidae
- Trigonochlamydidae
- Urocoptidae
- Urocyclidae
- Valloniidae
- Veronicellidae
- Vertiginidae
- Zonitidae
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Marine gastropod families:
Conidae: 1,312 alcohol-preserved and 4,702 dry lots, including the
research collection of Alan J. Kohn (1,247 alcohol, 1,816 dry
lots).
Cephalopod families:
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- Alloposidae
- Amphitretidae
- Ancistrocheiridae
- Architeuthidae
- Cranchiidae
- Cycloteuthidae
- Enoploteuthidae
- Gonatidae
- Grimalditeuthidae
- Grimpoteuthidae
- Histioteuthidae
- Idioctopodidae
- Idiosepiidae
- Joubiniteuthidae
- Lepidoteuthidae
- Loliginidae
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- Argonautidae
- Bathyteuthidae
- Batoteuthidae
- Bolitaenidae
- Lycoteuthidae
- Mastigoteuthidae
- Nautilidae
- Neoteuthidae
- Octopodidae
- Octopoteuthidae
- Ocythoidae
- Ommastrephidae
- Onychoteuthidae
- Opisthoteuthidae
- Pickfordiateuthidae
- Promachoteuthidae
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- Brachioteuthidae
- Chiroteuthidae
- Chtenopterygidae
- Cirroteuthidae
- Psychroteuthidae
- Pyroteuthidae
- Sepiadariidae
- Sepiidae
- Sepiolidae
- Spirulidae
- Stauroteuthidae
- Thysanoteuthidae
- Tremoctopodidae
- Vampyroteuthidae
- Vitreledonellidae
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"Hot-vent" material of the following gastropod and bivalve families:
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- Buccinidae
- Clypeosectidae
- Cyathermiidae
- Gorgoleptidae
- Hyalogyrinidae
- Lepetodrilidae
- Mytilidae
- Neolepetopsidae
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- Neomphalidae
- Peltospiridae
- Provannidae
- Pyropeltidae
- Scissurellidae
- Trochidae
- Turridae
- Vesicomyidae
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Hubricht Collection of North American Mollusca (other than
pulmonate gastropods):
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- Annulariidae
- Assimineidae
- Carychiidae
- Ellobiidae
- Helicinidae
- Hydrobiidae
- Littorinidae
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- Marginellidae
- Neoplanorbidae
- Pleuroceridae
- Pomatiopsidae
- Sphaeriidae
- Truncatellidae
- Valvatidae
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Other groups will be added as our database project progresses.
Please note that work on our type collection is not completed;
information on type status and type holdings for the above families
is not yet fully available.
Please note that this database - like most other such museum
systems - is not static. New material is being added, specimens are
re-identified by specialists, taxonomic or geographic information
is upgraded, material is being used or modified during various
research projects (such as histological or molecular preparations).
At present, we see a main purpose of this "publication" of the data
as a tool to give potential users of our collection advance
information about material available by loan or for on-site
study.
We claim copyright to our data. The information is
available ONLY for not-for-profit scientific use with the
stipulation that FMNH be clearly identified as the source of the
data. We request copies or reprints of publications that are based
on our collections.
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A successful search will display up to 50 records at a time. At the top of each display you will see the record set and the total number of records that matched your search criteria. Data from a record are displayed in the following order: Catalog Number, Family, Identification, Current Country Name, Historic Country Name (repeating the previous, if identical), State (or equivalent), County (or equivalent), Locality, Collector, Date of Collection, Collection Name, Specimen Count, Type Status, Wet or Dry collection. Supplemental data, such as corrections and additions to the original label, are displayed in {} brackets. A reference to "N" specimens is made when the actual count in a lot (= series) exceeds 25 individuals.
*Historic Country is the name of the country as indicated by the collector (or original owner) of the specimen, Current Political Affiliation is what the Historic Country's current political affiliation is (e.g. Bermuda's current political affiliation is United Kingdom.)
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