Facts on Invertebrates

Learn more about different groups of invertebrates here.

Our collections comprise of approximately 30 different phyla (main groups) of the animal kingdom. We have about 500.000 lots preserved in ethanol, dried or on microscope slides.
Some of the invertebrates represented in our collections are: corals, worms, gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods, crustaceans, sea urchins, seastars.
Click on the links and learn more about different groups of animals; what they look like, how they prey, what they eat etcetera.

Echinoderms:
Gallery of echinoderm images

Tardigrades:
Gallery of Tardigrada
Tardigrada

Worms:
Flatworms
Nematoda Picture Gallery
Nematoda General
Oligochaeta General
Polychaeta

Crustacea:
Chinese mitten crab
Signal crayfish
The Large Freshwater mussels

Numbers of species:
Invertebrates in numbers

External link:
Buglifeexternal link, opens in new window

OTorbjörn Kronostedt
Page updated: 2009-09-29
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
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