Summary
Natural history collections provide strategic biological data assets that document biodiversity across space and time, underpinning discovery and innovation. However, their scientific value depends on making specimen data accessible to researchers, decision-makers, industry, educators and the public. The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Malacology collection is one of seven largest mollusk collections in the United States and holds an estimated 188,000 specimens from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, spanning 150 years of collecting. However, only 18–20% of the collec
