The University of British Columbia

The Marine Invertebrate Collection was founded in the 1930s by Ian MacTaggart Cowan and C. McLean Fraser.

Primarily used for teaching, this collection holds several thousand specimens collected from BC and around the world, including cephalopods, bivalves, corals and sponges.

The Collection has recently been greatly enhanced by the generous donation of the Evelyn Hebb Killam and Alice Stein seashell collections, which represent a substantial representation of marine diversity from throughout the world. Cataloguing of the Collection is still in its infancy, but many specimens are recorded in sufficient detail to be of value to the broader scientific community.

Links

• Biology 205: Comparative Invertebrate Zoology at UBC
• Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
• Friday Harbor Laboratories
• Vancouver Aquarium
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Micro*scope

Contact

Marine Invertebrate Collection
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
2212 Main Mall

Director
Brian Leander
Departments of Zoology and Botany
4200-6270 University Blvd.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6T 1Z4

Phone: 604.822.2474
Fax: 604.822.2416