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 - Michigan
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Allegan (10 ) Alpena (1 ) Antrim (1 ) Arenac (2 ) Baraga (1 ) Bay (7 ) Benzie (14 ) Berrien (13 ) Calhoun (3 ) Cass (6 ) Charlevoix (11 ) Cheboygan (37 ) Chippewa* (3 ) Clare (2 ) Crawford (14 ) Delta (1 ) Dickinson (3 ) Emmet (33 ) Genesee (2 ) Gogebic (1 ) Grand Traverse (5 ) Hillsdale (3 ) Huron (3 ) Ingham (1 ) Ionia (1 ) Iron (1 ) Jackson (4 ) Kalamazoo (1 ) Kent (453 ) Lake (10 ) Leelanau (2 ) Lenawee (2 ) Livingston (3 ) Mackinac (3 ) Mackinaw (1 ) Macomb (2 ) Manistee (4 ) Marquette (15 ) Mason (4 ) Mecosta (4 ) Menominee (1 ) Missaukee (1 ) Monroe (9 ) Montcalm (8 ) Muskegon (24 ) Newaygo (95 ) Oakland (18 ) Oscoda (1 ) Ottawa (54 ) Roscommon (16 ) Saginaw (2 ) Schoolcraft (7 ) St. Clair (9 ) St. Joseph (1 ) Tuscola (4 ) Van Buren (6 ) Washtenaw (12 ) Wayne (6 ) Wexford (9 )