The collection contains primary types of nine species and secondary types of 5 species. The collection contains over 91,000 specimens and 12,100 lots of approximately 350 species in 30 families. Almost all are from North America. About 50% of the collection is from Illinois; the remainder is mostly from the southeastern United States. The best represented groups are crayfishes, shrimps, scuds, slaters, and pill bugs. A few lots of marine crustaceans found along the North American coastline are also present in the collection.

Contact: Dan Wylie (wylie.dan@gmail.com)

Home Page: http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/crustaceans

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

• 17,441 occurrence
• 16,339 (94%) georeferenced
• 31 families
• 24 genera
• 211 species