Field Museum of Natural History - Mollusks (F-M)
At present the Division of Invertebrates, which began with a collection of 16,000 lots, manages ca. 340,000 cataloged mollusk lots, with approximately 4.5 million specimens. Our molluscan collection now ranks among the top three or four in North America.
Contact: Jochen Gerber, Collections Manager III (jgerber@fieldmuseum.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 July 2016
Collection Statistics
6,438 occurrence
159 (2%) georeferenced
6,044 (94%) identified to species 10 families
12 genera
140 species
140 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Illinois
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Adams (1 ) Allen (1 ) Boone (23 ) Calhoun (11 ) Cass (4 ) Champaign (10 ) Christian (1 ) Clark (1 ) Clay (1 ) Clinton (2 ) Cook (126 ) Crawford (5 ) Dekalb (6 ) Douglas (1 ) Du Page (1 ) DuPage (25 ) Effingham (1 ) Fayette (1 ) Franklin (1 ) Fulton (35 ) Gallatin (6 ) Greene (1 ) Grundy (14 ) Hardin (3 ) Henderson (2 ) Iroquois (4 ) Jasper (2 ) Jersey (10 ) Jo Daviess (1 ) Kane (37 ) Kankakee (23 ) Kendall (5 ) LaSalle (20 ) Lake (63 ) Lee (2 ) Madison (1 ) Marion (1 ) Mason (10 ) Massac (3 ) McHenry (6 ) Menard (2 ) Montgomery (2 ) Morgan (1 ) Moultrie (1 ) Ogle (5 ) Peoria (3 ) Piatt (1 ) Pulaski (1 ) Randolph (1 ) Rock Island (5 ) Sangamon (8 ) St. Clair (4 ) Union (1 ) Vermilion (12 ) Vermillion (4 ) Wabash (5 ) Washington (6 ) Whiteside (2 ) Will (68 ) Winnebago (3 ) Woodford (1 )