The Gil and Nancy Voss Marine Invertebrate Collection is an internationally recognized, CITES-certified research museum for Atlantic tropical marine invertebrates.
Voss Marine Invertebrate Collection
The collections consist of ca 82,753 lots (belonging to 17 phyla), of which at present 41,902 samples are cataloged and identified to species, with most of the remaining lots identified to order or family.
Voss Marine Invertebrate Collection
The large collections from the extensive surveys of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean by US Fish and Wildlife Service vessels are well represented in our holdings, as are the tropical collections of a number of other research vessels.
As an internationally recognized, CITES-certified collection, the Gilbert and Nancy Voss Marine Invertebrate Collection (VMIC) offers researchers an array of tropical marine invertebrate specimen with an emphasis on western Atlantic species, as well as a small number western Africa and eastern Pacific species. The collection’s geographic and depth ranges of Atlantic tropical and deep-sea species are of exceptional value as a data resource. Being comprehensive in nature, a major portion of the material in the collection continues to be identified by leading specialists from around the world. We provide unparalleled access to taxa found in no other collection, and are best known for our comprehensive mollusk and scleactinian coral collections. Our mission is to further the scientific knowledge and education of marine invertebrates through the sharing and development of invertebrate taxonomic information and specimen material.
