Invertebrates on the Web

Florida Museum resources

• SNAILS of Florida (FL)
• Collection Databases (FL)
• Discover Science (FL)

Biodiversity

Large-scale projects

• Census of Marine Life
• Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA)
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
• Seamounts Online
• Tree of life project

Faunal lists

• Antartica: Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island and McMurdo Sound
• Australia: Australian Faunal Directory
• Azores:  Azorean marine species
• Florida: CHIRC West Coast Faunal Checklists (FL)
• Florida: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary species list (pdf)
• Florida: SEAMAP guide to Northern Gulf Invertebrates (FL)
• Florida: Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience species list
• Florida: Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commision Non-Native Aquatic Species list
• Hawaii:  Bishop Museum – Marine Invertebrate Databases and Keys
• Ireland and Britain:  Marine Life Information Network for Ireland and Britain MARLIN
• Britain Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
• South Africa iziko, biodiversity explorer from museums of cape town

Invertebrates links

Mollusks

• The Aplacophora Home Page
• Bivalves at FMNH/AMNH
• The Cephalopod Page
• Cephalopods at NMNH
• Gualtierianus (in Spanish)
• The Field Museum On-line Database (FL)
• Jacksonville Shell Club Checklists (and more) (FL)
• Ohio State Molluscs (Great for bivalves and some marine taxa)
• Sea Slug Forum
• Slug Site (the salt water variety)
• Unitas Malacologia – The International Society For Malacology

Crustacea

• The Crustacean Society
• Decapoda and Stomatopoda (focus on French Polynesia)

Echinoderms

• The Ophiuroidea (Brittlestars)

Other Taxa

• Florida Corals – Prints from the first report on Florida corals (FL)
• Octocoral Research Center
• The Scyphozoan (Jellyfish and Friends)

Florida Links

• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary – Sanctuary resources (FL)
• Smithsonian Marine Station at Force Pierce (FL)
• Florida Division of Aquaculture (FL)
• Florida Division of Marine Fisheries Management (collecting permits) (FL)

Museum Collections

• The Academy of Natural Sciences (ANSP) – Malacology
• American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) – Malacology
• Australian Museum, Sydney – Research and Collections
• Australian Museum, Darwin – Marine Invertebrates
• Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
• Bishop Museum – Research and Collections
• California Academy of Sciences – IZ and Geology
• Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) – Invertebrates
• Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris – Research
• The Field Museum (FMNH) – Invertebrates
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM) – Research and Collections
• The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH) – Zoology
• Naturalis – National Museum (Netherlands) – Invertebrates
• North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences – Research
• Queensland Museum, Brisbane – Sessile Marine Invertebrates
• US National Museum – Department of Systematic Biology – Invertebrate Zoology
• Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History – Invertebrate Zoology
• Zoological Museum University of Copenhagen – Invertebrates

Taxonomy Resources

• South CA Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists (SCAMIT)

Related Links

• Florida Museum Environmental Archaeology (FL)
• Florida Museum Invertebrate Paleontology (FL)
• Florida Museum McGuire Lepidoptera Center (FL)
• UF – Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory (FL)
• UF – Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience (FL)

Grants & Useful Info

Useful Information

• Resources for Graduate Students and Post-Docs: A compilation by Spencer Hall, Indiana University
• Grant and Job resources by Marissa Baskett, UC Davis
• Ten Simple Rules: a collection of recommendations to help you in your scientist life (Ten Simple rules for graduate students, Ten simple rules for a making a good oral presentation, etc)

List of Grants

• Fellowships for Graduate research at Friday Harbor Laboratories (University of Washington)
• Diversity project: for undergraduate research program to work on marine biodiversity in coral triangle
• The American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS)
• The American Association of University Women
• American Malacological Society
• American Philosophical Society
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• Animal Behavior Society
• Bermuda Biological Station for Research
• Conchologists of America
• Environmental Protection Agency
• The Ernst Mayr Travel Grants
• Garden Club of America
• Graduate Women in Science
• The Field Museum
• The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• International Society for Reef Studies
• International Women’s Fishing Association
• American Museum of Natural History
• Malacological Society of Australasia
• Malacological Society of London
• National Geographic
• Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
• National Science Foundation – DDIG
• National Science Foundation – Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• PADI foundation
• Phycological Society of America
• Smithsonian Internship
• Sigma Xi – GIAR
• Society of Systematics Biology
• The Explorers Club
• The Western Society of Malacologists