Coleccion Regional de Moluscos de la Peninsula de Yucatan

The dataset contains information about the “Colección Regional de Moluscos de la Península de Yucatán” (federal register INV-240-01-11) at the Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Faculty of Science, UNAM. This dataset represents only specimens of Phylum Mollusca identified to genus and species (3969 specimens) from 35 localities of the coast, coral reefs and deep sea at the Gulf of Mexico and Mexican Caribbean for a period of time from 2007 to 2019. The dataset contains information of specimens belonging to 166 families, 386 genus and 542 species. The specimens at the collection have been either identified or validated by professional mollusk taxonomists, providing a significant level of trust in the data. The taxonomists that participated in this process appear in the list of authors.