Taxonomic listing of zoological Discovery collections
Numbers of specimen jars and slides in the Discovery collection housed in the Zoology Department at the Natural History Museum, London. Foraminifera are the only organisms collected by the Discovery expeditions that are not listed here.
Table recreated from Rainbow (2005). Calcareous taxa are in bold.
| Sponges | 2,700 | ||
| Cnidarians | Siphonophores | 701 | |
| Alcyonaceae | 133 | ||
| Actinaria | 80 | ||
| Hydromedusae | 80 | ||
| Other medusae | 1,023 | ||
| Other cnidarians (e.g. scleractinian corals) | 942 | ||
| (total) | 2,959 | ||
| Ctenophores | 470 | ||
| Polychaetes | 876 | ||
| Sipunculids | 60 | ||
| Echiurans | 3 | ||
| Molluscs | Cephalopods | 6,000 | |
| Heteropods | 970 | ||
| Pteropods | 5,200 | ||
| Other gastropods | 700 | ||
| Bivalves | 320 | ||
| (total) | 13,190 | ||
| Crustaceans | Ostracods | 623 | |
| Calanoid copepods | 1,800 | ||
| Euphausiids | 5,570 | ||
| Other | 8,273 | ||
| (total) | 16,266 | ||
| Bryozoans | (2,323 slides) | ||
| Chaetognaths | 2,304 | ||
| Echinoderms | Ophiuroids | 400 | |
| Holothurians | 160 | ||
| Others | 481 | ||
| (total) | 1,041 | ||
| Urochordates | 1,158 | ||
| Fish | 3,043 | ||
| Cetacean parts | (1,300 slides) | ||
| Plankton samples | 26,542 | ||
| Total specimen jars | 70,612 |