Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection

The Marine Invertebrates collection encompasses invertebrates with the exception of insects and spiders. It includes crabs, sea spiders, lobsters, isopods, sponges, corals, worms, molluscs, echinoderms, protozoans and some non-vertebrate chordates.
There are over 1,200,000 specimens in the collection, including several thousand type specimens. The mollusc collection, which includes shells, comprises over 800,000 lots and is of international significance.