Online Collection Database The >700K specimen lots (2023) available digitally through the online database represent >95% of our collection. Sampled are cataloged with phylum-specific catalog numbers. Specimens from recent surveys are frequently accompanied by tissue samples and images. Tissue
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Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) holds collections of animals other than vertebrates, as well as some other eukaryotes. Mollusks represent 80% of the collection, reflecting the original focus of the collection (Malacology), as well as the availability of shells. The collection was expended to IZ in 2000 an
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With the goal of promoting life-long learning, University of Florida researchers will use a four-year, $1.97 million National Science Foundation grant to create a nationwide network of amateur and professional paleontologists. Fossil clubs across the country function independently and do not
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The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Michelle LeFebvre is a recipient of this year’s University of Florida excellence awards for assistant professors. LeFebvre is the curator of South Florida archaeology and ethnography, as well as Caribbean archaeology, and was nominated for the award by Florida
the award to catalyze growing interdisciplinary conversations around the inherent links
It’s always lovely to change over to a new year. The DE team started with some mini sessions of department time to reflect on what we worked on in 2023, breaking down our wins and challenges. We then looked ahead at the upcoming year, identifying our internal goals, scheduling anticipated Museum pro
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Historic Research Projects The UF Herbarium has a long history of research studies in diverse projects spanning traditional morphological plant systematics, floristics, plant anatomy, molecular analysis and pollination ecology. Many of the publications born from these projects are documented in our
from these projects are documented in our herbarium library catalog (specialized links
The Florida Museum Fish Collection contains more than 236,000 catalogued lots (approximately 2,450,650 specimens), representing more than 9,000 species. In addition, there is an unsorted backlog of about 12,000 lots (about 120,000 specimens). Most of the uncatalogued and backlog material was acquir
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Cetopsis Spix & Agassiz, 1829 The combination of the absence of a spinelet associated with the dorsal fin, the absence of spines on the dorsal and pectoral fins, and the possession of a single row of teeth on the vomer distinguishes Cetopsisfrom the other genera in the Cetopsinae. KEY TO T
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The Florida Museum of Natural History has appointed archaeologist Michelle LeFebvre as assistant curator of the South Florida Archaeology and Ethnography Program. LeFebvre’s work explores how humans have interacted with their environment over long periods of time, with a focus on the Indigenous p
One notable example is ZooArchNet, an open-access data platform that links records
