Illinois Natural History Survey - Crustacean Collection (INHS-CRUSTACEAN)
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.
Fluid Collections Manager: Enrique Santoyo-Brito, esbrito@illinois.edu
Acting Curator: Dusty Swedberg, swedberg@illinois.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 February 2025
Cite this collection: Illinois Natural History Survey - Crustacean Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 257ea482-2d6f-4cf4-846d-8efeb58f6727) https://biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal/content/dwca/INHS-CRUSTACEAN_DwC-A.zip accessed via the INHS Collections Data Portal, biocoll.inhs.illinois.edu/portal, 2025-07-11).
Collection Statistics
18,000 specimen records
16,892 (94%) georeferenced
5,409 (30%) with images (5,441 total images) 5,984 (33%) identified to species 32 families 24 genera 211 species 218 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - Texas
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Anderson (1 ) Angelina (30 ) Angelina/ Nacogdoches (3 ) Atacosa (1 ) Atascosa (14 ) Bastrop (1 ) Bell (2 ) Bexar (5 ) Bowie (2 ) Brazoria (31 ) Brazos (1 ) Brown (1 ) Caldwell (2 ) Calhoun (5 ) Cameron (14 ) Cass (1 ) Cherokee (2 ) Comal (4 ) Coryell (1 ) Curry (1 ) Dallas (2 ) DeWitt (3 ) Denton (1 ) El Paso (1 ) Ellis (6 ) Fannin (2 ) Fayette (3 ) Frio (3 ) Galveston (2 ) Gillespie (2 ) Gonzales (5 ) Gonzalez (1 ) Gregg (1 ) Hardin (2 ) Harris (2 ) Harrison (2 ) Hays (4 ) Henderson (1 ) Hill (2 ) Houston (53 ) Howard (1 ) Jasper (11 ) Jim Webb (2 ) Johnson (1 ) Karnes (3 ) Kaufman (1 ) Kendall (1 ) Kerr (1 ) Kimble (2 ) Kinney (1 ) LaSalle (1 ) Lamar (1 ) Lavaca (3 ) Leon (1 ) Live Oak (1 ) Lubbock (4 ) Matagorda (2 ) Maverick (1 ) McMullen (5 ) Medina (1 ) Montgomery (11 ) Nacogdoches (27 ) Navarro (1 ) Newton (2 ) Panola (1 ) Polk (17 ) Real (1 ) Red River (2 ) Robertson (5 ) Rusk (3 ) Sabine (11 ) San Augustine (14 ) San Jacinto (23 ) San Patricio (3 ) Shelby (6 ) Tarrant (1 ) Titus (2 ) Trinity (11 ) Uvalde (2 ) Val Verde (1 ) Walker (15 ) Wichita (3 ) Wilson (2 )