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Department of Invertebrate Zoology

Custodian of Collection

To borrow or donate specimens to Invertebrate Zoology please first select the taxonomic level that most closely identifies the specimens you wish to donate and contact the resulting curator.

Polychaeta including Archiannelida, Echiura, Pogonophora, Vestimentifera

Clitellata including Hirudinea and "Oligochaeta"

Amphipoda, Branchiura, Cephalocarida, Copepoda, Cumacea, Isopoda, Leptostraca, Lophogastrida, Mysidacea, Mystacocarida, Pentastomida, Plankton, Pycnogonida, Remipedia, Spelaeogriphacea, Stomatopoda, Tanaidacea, Tantulocarida, Thermosbaenacea, Xiphosura

Anaspidacea, Anomura, Anostraca, Ascothoracida, Astacidea, Bathynellacea, Brachyura, Caridea, Cirripedia, Cladocera, Conchostraca, Dendrobranchiata, Euphausiacea, Notostraca, Ostracoda, Stenopodidea, Thalassinidea

Urochordates

Hydrozoa & Hydrocorals (Stylasteridae), Medusozoa (Cubozoa, Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Staurozoa)

Anthozoa, Anemones, Black Corals (Antipatharia), Azooxanthellate & Zooxanthellate Corals, Fossil Corals, Octocorallia

Asteroidea, Crinoidea, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea, Ophiuroidea

Aplacophora, Monoplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda, marine Neritimorpha, higher Caenogastropoda (Naticoidea, Ficoidea, Tonnoidea, Neogastropoda), Cypraeoidea, Velutinoidea, marine Heterobranchia

Bivalvia

Gastropoda (freshwater and terrestrial), basal marine Caenogastropoda

Cephalopoda and Pteropoda

Cestoda, Monogenea, Rhabditophora, Trematoda, Turbellaria

Calcarea, Demospongiae, Hexactinellida