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Natural history collections contain information needed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disease outbreaks that could turn into a pandemic — but they are an underused resource. Dozens of collections and other experts gathered last year to analyze how to change that and their findings were rece
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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
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea

The University of Florida Herbarium maintains a non-circulating reference library of publications pertinent to the naming and classification of vascular plants (plant taxonomy and nomenclature). The literature in this collection contains descriptions, geographical ranges and keys for differentiatin
Indochina 363 Thailand 364 Malesian Region (Indonesia, Philippines, Malay, New Guinea

Pristis pristis Although sawfish look somewhat like sharks, they are actually rays. They have an elongated snout or „rostrum“ that is studded with teeth that they swing from side to side to stun schooling fishes, crustaceans and invertebrates upon which they feed. Large tooth sawfishes are most c
Western Indian Ocean through India, the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia to New Guinea

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
Eastern Atlantic collections from the Gulf of Guinea are available in some abundance

Epinephelus amblycephalus These tropical reef fish prefer the deeper rocky reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean. They are classical almond-shaped groupers, with pointed snouts and large, round eyes, a continuous spiny dorsal fin, and a rounded caudal (tail) fin. Usually light brown to pale grey, th
Japan, Taiwan, China, Philippines, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, New Guinea

Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute crucial specimen data and images to online research networks. The grants represent the first two major funding initiatives to digitize modern marine organ
Surveys of Papua New Guinea uncovered about 150 snail species new to science.

Centroscyllium fabricii This small, dark-colored shark has a stout body, somewhat small fins, and large oval eyes that are reflective green. It has two dorsal fins, each with a strong, sharp spine, and the second fin being somewhat larger than the first. Because they live at the bottom of the con
Gulf of Mexico and in the eastern North Atlantic from Iceland south to Senegal and Guinea

Cephalopholis rogaa These flattened oval-shaped reef fish have angular, slightly concave profiles sloping down to their wide mouths that are red to orange inside. They have a continuous dorsal fin that is somewhat elongated, and a matching elongated anal fin, that trail back towards the short, sq
Islands including Thailand, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Papua New Guinea

So February was crazy. Even by our usual standards of busy-ness, everything was just a little bit more hectic in February. There was a lot of background busyness in the form of job seminars. Most weeks, sometimes twice a week, the whole museum schlepped over to Powell Hall (the public face of the
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea