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 - Indiana
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Bartholemew (1 ) Benton (2 ) Boone (2 ) Carroll (2 ) Cass (2 ) Clinton (3 ) Crawford (8 ) Dearborn (2 ) Decatur (1 ) Elkhart (4 ) Fayette (9 ) Fountain (4 ) Franklin (1 ) Gibson (3 ) Harrison (8 ) Hendricks (1 ) Henry (3 ) Huntington (2 ) Jackson (1 ) Jennings (11 ) Knox (1 ) Kosciusko (34 ) LaPorte (15 ) Lagrange (3 ) Lake (8 ) Lawrence (4 ) Madison (1 ) Marion (5 ) Marshall (46 ) Montgomery (1 ) Morgan (2 ) Parke (3 ) Perry (2 ) Porter (12 ) Posey (10 ) Putnam (3 ) Randolph (1 ) Shelby (1 ) St. Joseph (1 ) Starke (9 ) Steuben (32 ) Tippecanoe (5 ) Vanderburgh (1 ) Vigo (3 ) Wabash (1 ) Washington (2 ) Wayne (4 ) White (1 )