Musea "A"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| A |
Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| AAC |
Anhui Agricultural College, Department of Plant Protection, China |
| AAS |
Herbarium, Biosciences Division, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| AAU |
Herbarium, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark |
| ABF |
Acaroteca Berlesiana, Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Cascine del Riccio (formerly Florence), Italy |
| AC |
Amherst College [On permanent loan to University of Massachusetts, see MASS] |
| AcAT |
Agricultural Research Council – Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa |
| AEI |
American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
| AFRI |
African Butterfly Research Institute, Nairobi. |
| AFUA |
Department of Biology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| AHF |
Allan Hancock Foundation, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| AIK |
Arachnological Institute of Korea, Seoul, South Korea |
| AJB |
A.J. Bruce (pers. coll.) |
| AJOU |
Herbarium, Biological Sciences Department, Ajou University, Suwon City, South Korea |
| AK |
Herbarium, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand |
| AL |
A. Laštuvka personal Collection, Prostejov, Czech Republic. |
| AL-MNRJ |
Adolpho Lutz collection in MNRJ. |
| AM, AMS, AMSA |
Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
| AMAZ |
Herbario Amazonense, Universidad Nacional de la Amazónia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru |
| AME (See MGCL) |
The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
| AMES |
Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| AM(MMUS) |
[Australian Museum (Macleay Museum Collection), see AM] |
| AMG |
Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa. Collection transferred to the PEM in 1993. |
| AMNH |
American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA |
| AMNZ |
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand |
| AMO |
Herbario AMO, Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| AMS |
[Australian Museum, see AM] |
| AMUZ |
Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslini University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| ANIC |
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| ANSP |
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| APGD |
Acari Collection of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark., USA |
| ARIZ |
Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona |
| ASC |
Deaver Herbarium, Biological Sciences Department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA |
| ASCU |
NSW Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange, New South Wales, Australia |
| ASIZ |
Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan |
| ASJ |
Arachnological Society of Japan, Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan |
| ASSAM |
Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Circle, Shillong, Meghalaya, India |
| ASU |
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. |
| AUGD |
Paleontological Type Collection, Geology Department, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
Musea "B"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| B |
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin, Germany |
| BA |
Herbarium, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| BAA |
Herbario Gaspar Xuárez, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| BASU |
Herbarium, Department of Biology, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran |
| BAUC |
Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China |
| BBM |
[Bernice P. Bishop Museum, see BPBM] |
| BCIQT |
Animal & Plant Quarantine Laboratory, Taichung Branch Office, Bureau of Commodity Inspection & Quarantine, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taichung, Taiwan |
| BDHU |
Biological Department of Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, China |
| BFU |
Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China. |
| BG |
Herbarium, Museum of Natural History, University of Bergen, Norway |
| BHCB |
Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| BIGU |
Herbario, Escuela de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| BKL |
Herbarium, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| BLCGE |
Biological Laboratory, College of General Education, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. |
| BLIH |
Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household of Japan, Tokyo, Japan |
| BLKU |
Biosystematics Laboratory, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan |
| BLT |
Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University, Tokushima, Japan |
| BLXU |
Biological Laboratory of Xinjiang University, China. |
| BM |
[Herbarium, The Natural History Museum, see BMNH] |
| BML |
[The Natural History Museum, see BMNH] |
| BMNH |
The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. (Formerly the British Museum [Natural History]) |
| BMSYU |
Biological Museum of Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China |
| BNHM |
Bombay Natural History Museum, Hornbill House, Bombay, India |
| BNM |
Beijing Natural History Museum, China |
| BO |
Herbarium Bogoriense, Botany Division, Research Centre for Biology -- LIPI, Cibinong Science Center, Cibinong, Bogor Regency, Indonesia |
| BOC |
Bingham Oceanographic Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| BOL |
Bolus Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| BOLO |
Erbario, Sistema Museale d'Ateneo, Università di Bologna, Italy |
| BOLV |
Herbario, Nacional Forestal Martín Cárdenas, Cochabamba, Bolivia |
| BPBM |
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. |
| BPIH |
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Arthropod Collection, Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, USA |
| BPIM |
Bureau of Plant Industry, Manila, Philippines |
| BR |
Herbarium, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Domein van Bouchout, Meise, Belgium |
| BRG |
Guyana National Herbarium, Biology Department, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana |
| BRIT |
Herbarium, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
| BRY |
Stanley L. Welsh Herbarium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA |
| BSI |
Herbarium, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Botanical Survey of India, Western Circle, Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| BSNU |
Biological laboratory of Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. |
| BVQC |
Biological Laboratory of Qingdao Vocational and Technical College, Qingdao, China |
| BYU |
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA |
Musea "C"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| C |
Herbarium, Botanical Garden and Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| CAL |
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Botanic Garden, Howrah, Kolkata, India |
| CALI |
Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Calicut, Calicut, Kerala, India |
| CALSSNU |
College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. |
| CAN |
National Herbarium of Canada, Vascular Plant Section, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| CANB |
Australian National Herbarium, Canberra, Australia |
| CARE |
Albert R. Estrada Collection, Havana, Cuba |
| CAS |
California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA |
| CAS-SU |
[Stanford University collection in CAS] |
| CAST |
College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China. |
| CAY |
Herbier de Guyane, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cayenne, French Guiana |
| CBF |
Colección Boliviana de Fauna, Herpetología, Cota-Cota, La Paz, Bolivia |
| CBM |
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Japan |
| CBU |
Herbarium, School of Life Science, College of Natural Science, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk, South Korea |
| CCB |
Central College, Bangalore, India |
| CDFA |
Collection of Arthropods, Analysis and Indentification Unit, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA [types of Blanc and Foote transferred to CAS] |
| CDM |
Courtenay and District Museum, British Columbia, Canada |
| CDRS |
Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador |
| CEPEC |
Herbário Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau, CEPEC, CEPLAC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil |
| CET |
Centro de Estudios Tropicales, Sevilla, Spain |
| CHAPA |
Herbario-Hortorio, Botánica, Colegio de Postgraduados, Chapingo, Mexico State, Mexico |
| CHAS |
Chicago Academy of Sciences, Illinois, USA |
| CHINM |
Instituto Nacional de Microbiología, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [Transferred to MACN] |
| CHIOC |
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| CHM |
Charleston Museum, South Carolina, USA |
| CIB |
Chengdu Institute of Biology, Academia Sinica, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. |
| CIIDIR |
Herbario, CIIDIR Unidad Durango, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Durango, Durango, Mexico |
| CINC |
Herbarium, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| CIS |
Centre for Insect Systematics, Kangweon National University, Chuncheon, Korea. |
| CIUFES |
Coleção Ictiológica, Departamento de Oceanografia e Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil |
| CGE |
Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, U.K. |
| CGH |
National Museum of Prague, Czech Republic |
| CKB |
Collection of Ján Kodada, Bratislava, Slovakia. |
| CLCB |
[L. & C. Brévignon personal collection, see LCB] |
| CM |
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| CMCC |
Chongqing Museum, Natural History, Chongqing, China. |
| CMNC |
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
| CMNH |
Chicago Museum of Natural History, Illinois, USA |
| CMNZ |
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| CMP |
[Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, see CM] |
| CMW |
[Colonial Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, see MONZ] |
| CMZC |
Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb, Croatia |
| CNC |
[Canadian National Collection of Insects, see CNCI] |
| CNCH |
Cuban National Collection, La Habana, Cuba. |
| CNCI |
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Biological Research Division, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| CNHM |
Chicago Natural History Musem, Chicago, USA. |
| CNIN |
National Collection of Insects, Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma, Mexico. |
| CNMS |
National Museum, Sir Marcus Fernando Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| CNU |
College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China |
| CNUIC |
Chungnam National University Insect Collection, Daejeon, South Korea |
| COI |
Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal |
| COI-WILLK |
Herbarium of Henrich Moritz Willkomm at COI |
| CONN |
George Safford Torrey Herbarium, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA |
| CORD |
Herbario, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Museo Botánico, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Córdoba Prov., Argentina |
| CPARJ |
Centro de Pesquisas Agropecuarias Centro-Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (formerly Instituto de Biologia Vegetal) |
| CPS |
Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA |
| CR |
Herbario Nacional, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica |
| CRE |
[Costa Rica Expeditions, now in LACM] |
| CSCA |
California State Collection of Arthropods, Sacramento, USA |
| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Entomology, Canberra. |
| CSUFC |
C.P. Gillette Arthropod Biodiverstiy Museum, Department of Entomology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA [types of Tephritidae transferred to USNM] |
| CTES |
Herbario, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina |
| CU |
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| CUI |
Cornell University Insect Collection, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| CUMZ |
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK |
| CUMZB |
Museum of Zoology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| CUPC |
L. H. Bailey Hortorium Paleobotanical Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA [Paleontology use, Index Herbariorum abbreviation is BH] |
| CUVC |
Herbario CUVC "Luis Sigifredo Espinal-Tascon", Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia |
| CUZ |
Herbario Vargas, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru |
| CVRD |
Herbário, Reserva Natural da Vale do Rio Doce, Linhares, Espírito Santo, Brazil |
| CVULA |
Coleccion Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias, La Hechicera, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. |
| CZ |
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| CZACC |
Colección Zoologia, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Havana, Cuba |
Musea "E"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| E |
Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK |
| E-GL |
University of Glasgow Herbarium [collections on permanent loan to E] |
| EA |
East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya |
| EAMFRO |
East African Marine Fisheries Research Organisation, Zanzibar |
| EAP |
Herbario Paul C. Standley, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
| EBD |
Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain |
| EBRG |
Museo de la Estación Biología de Rancho Grande, Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela |
| ECBS |
Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippines |
| ECOCH |
Ichthyological Collection of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) at Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México |
| ECOSC |
Ichthyological Collection of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) at San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México |
| EHT-HMS |
Edward H. Taylor-Hobart M. Smith collection [Now divided between FMNH and UIMNH] |
| EI |
Eugenio Izecksohn personal collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| EIHU |
Entomological Institute of the Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan. |
| ELDM |
Erlianhaote Dinosaur Museum, Inner Mongolia. |
| ELMU |
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan |
| ELKU |
Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan |
| ELPU |
Entomological Laboratory, Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan. |
| EMEC |
[Essig Museum Entomology Collection, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, see EMUC] |
| EMEM |
Entomologisches Museum Eitschberger, Marktleuthen, Germany |
| EMHIU |
Entomological Museum of the Hokkaido Imperial University, Japan. |
| EMNAU |
Entomological Museum, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China |
| EMNH |
Estonian Museum of Natural History, Tallinn. |
| EMNSTU |
Entomological Museum, Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. |
| EMUC |
Essig Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA |
| ENA |
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Brazil (formerly Escola Nacional de Agronomia) |
| ENHM |
Estonian Natural History Museum, Tallinn. |
| ENIH |
Department of Entomology, National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan |
| EPN |
Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador |
| ERA-WTN |
E. Ross Allen-Wilfred T. Neill collection [Now in FSM] |
| ERLPW |
Entomology Research Laboratory, Providence Women's College, Calicut, Kerala, India |
| ESAL |
Herbário, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| ESEE |
Entomology Society of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt |
| ET |
Etsuzo Tsukada personal collection, Tokyo, Japan |
| ETC |
Entomology Type Collection, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA |
| ETHZ |
Entomologische Sammlung, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland |
| EUMJ |
Entomological Laboratory, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan |
Musea "H"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| H |
Herbarium, Botanical Museum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| HA |
Herbario, Escuela de Biología del Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador |
| HAC |
Herbario, Academia de Ciencias, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Havana, Cuba |
| HAJB |
Herbario Prof. Dr. J. Bisse, Jardín Botánico Nacional, Havana, Cuba |
| HAO |
Herbario Antenor Orrego, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego, Trujillo, Peru |
| HAS |
Herbário Alarich Rudolf Holger Schultz, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| HB |
Herbário, Herbarium Bradeanum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| HBG |
Herbarium, Biozentrum Klein-Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany |
| HBI |
[Hunan Normal University Department of Biology, see HNU] |
| HCQC |
Hao HUANG collection, Qingdao, China |
| HDOU |
Hope Department of Oxford University, United Kingdom. |
| HENNU |
College of Life, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China. |
| HES |
Hawaiian Entomological Society. |
| HKU |
Department of Ecology & Biodiversity, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| HLD |
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany. |
| HM |
Private Collection of Henk van Mastrigt, Jayapura, Indonesia. |
| HMIM |
Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum, Iran. |
| HMW |
Hill Museum, Witley, England. |
| HN |
Herbarium, Botany Department, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, National Center for Natural Sciences and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| HNHM |
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary |
|
HNMB |
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary |
| HNMN |
Herbario Nacional de Nicaragua, Universidad Centroamericana, Managua, Nicaragua |
| HNNU |
Department of Biology, Hainan Normal University, Haikou City, China. |
| HNU |
Department of Biology, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China |
| HNWP |
Herbarium, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Museum of Biology, Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, China |
| HO |
Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| HOXA |
Herbario, Estación biológica del Jardin Botanico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru |
| HSC |
Herbarium, Biological Sciences Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA |
| HTC |
Hangzhou Teachers College, Hangzhou, China |
| HU |
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [For herbarium, see GH] |
| HUA |
Herbario, Centro de Investigaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (CIEN), Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| HUEFS |
Herbário, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil |
| HUIC |
Hokkaido University Insect Collection, Japan. |
| HUJ |
Department of Zoology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| HUNAU |
Institute of Entomology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, CHina |
| HUNHM |
Hokkaido University Natural History Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
| HUS |
Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
| HUT |
Herbarium Truxillense, Universidad Nacional de La Libertad-Trujillo, Trujillo, Peru |
| HUW |
Institute of Ecology, Hubei University, Wuhai, China |
| HWML |
Harold W. Manter Laboratory, University of Nebraska State Museum, Nebraska, USA |
| HZU |
Herbarium, Lab of Systematics and Evolutionary Botany and Biodiversity, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
Musea "I"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| IADIZA, IAZA |
Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de Zonas Áridas Mendoza, Argentina |
| IARI |
National Herbarium of Cultivated Plants, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India |
| IAVH |
Instituto de Ivestigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leiva, Boyacá, Colombia |
| IBE |
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta 37, 08003 Barcelona (Spain) |
| IBGE |
Herbário, Reserva Ecológica do IBGE, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil |
| IBMUNC |
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Instituto de Biología Animal, Centro Universitario, Mendoza, Argentina |
| IBP |
Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Vladivostok, Russia. |
| IBPN |
Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia |
| IBSC |
Herbarium, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China |
| IBSP |
Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil [collection destroyed by fire, May 15, 2010] |
| IBUNAM |
Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico |
| ICBAU |
Insect Collection, Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China. |
| ICBNHM |
Insect Collection of the Beijing Natural History Museum, Beijing, China. |
| ICCAU |
Insect Collection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. |
| ICCLS |
Insect Collection, College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. (See NKU) |
| ICM |
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, Spain |
| ICN |
Museo de Historia Natural, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. |
| ICN-MNH |
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Coleccíon de Lepidoptera, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. |
| ICN-MHN-L |
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Coleccíon de Lepidoptera, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. |
| ICNU |
[Insect Collection, College of Life Science, Nankai University, see ICCLS] |
| ICSU |
Insect Collection of Southwest University, Chongqing , China. |
| ICZU |
Insect Collection of Zhongshan University, China. |
| IEBR |
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| IESNU |
Institute of Entomology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China. |
| IEXV |
Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico |
| IEZU |
Institute of Entomology, Zhongshan University, China |
| IFAN |
Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire, Université de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal [formerly: Institut Français d'Afrique Noire] |
| IGPUG |
Institut und Museum für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany |
| IICT |
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| IIUN |
Ile Ife University, Nigeria. |
| IJ |
Herbarium, Natural History Division, Natural History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ), Kingston, Jamaica |
| IM |
Indian Museum, Calcutta, India |
| IMBV |
Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok, Russia |
| IMC |
Indian Museum, Chowringhee, Calcutta, India. |
| IML |
Fundacion e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina |
| IMNU |
Department of Biology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, China |
| IMZ |
Museo ed Istituto di Zoologia Sistematica, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy (collection possibly transferred to MRSN) |
| INB |
Herbario, Departamento de Botánica, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica |
| IND-AN |
Amphibian Collection, Instituto Nacional de los Recursos Naturales Renovables y del Ambiente, Bogotá, Colombia. |
| INHS |
Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA |
| INM |
Irish National Museum, Dublin, Ireland |
| INPA |
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas de Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil |
| INPC |
National Pusa Collections, Division of Entomology, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, India |
| IOAN |
Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
| IOC |
Fundação Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| ION |
Institut Océanographique de Nhatrang, Nhatrang, Vietnam |
| IOQ |
Institute of Oceanology, Academia Sinica, Qingdao, China |
| IOZ |
Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China. |
| IPE |
Institut für Pflanzenschutzforschung, Eberswalde, Germany. |
| IPV |
Instituto de Patologia Vegetal, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Castelar, Argentina |
| IRSN |
[Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, see IRSNB] |
| IRSNB |
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (See also MRHN) |
| ISEA |
Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute for Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Novosibirsk, Russia |
| ISEZ |
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Zoological Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Krakow, Poland. |
| ISTM |
Institut Scientifique, Antananarivo, Madagascar [Status unclear. Some types may be at SANC or in MNHNP] |
| ISTTU |
Inst. Sci. Tech. Tokai Univ. |
| ISZB |
Institut für Spezielle Zoologie, Berlin, Germany. |
| ISZP |
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Krakow, Poland. |
| IVIC |
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, San Antonio de los Altos, Venezuela |
| ITZ |
Institute of Taxonomic Zoology (Zoöligisch Museum), Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| IU |
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
| IZ |
Instituto de Zoología, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Havana. |
| IZAC |
[Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, see IZAS] |
| IZAM |
Instituto de Zoologia Agricola, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela |
| IZAS |
Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Haidian, Beijing, China |
| IZBE |
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia |
| IZCAS |
[Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, see IZAS] |
| IZSNU |
Institute of Zoology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China |
| IZTG |
Institute of Zoology, Tblisi, Georgia |
| IZUA |
Instituto de Zoología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. |
| IZUC |
Instituto de Zoología, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile |
| IZUG |
Istituto di Zoologia, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy |
| IZUSN |
Instituto di Zoologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Portici, Italy |
| IZUW |
Institut für Zoologie der Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria |
Musea "M"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| M |
Herbarium, Botanische Staatssammlung München, Munich, Germany |
| M.W. |
Melbourne Ward, personal collection |
| MA |
Herbario, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain |
| MABRI |
Museum of Azumino Butterflies Research Institute, Japan. |
| MACN |
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
| MACT |
Morone Amber Collection, Turin, Italy |
| MAF |
Museum of the Agriculture Faculty, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey. |
| MAFL |
Plant Health Diagnostic Station, Advisory Services Division, MAF, Levin, New Zealand. |
| MAK |
Makino Herbarium, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| MAKB |
Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany |
| MASN |
Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China |
| MAPR |
Herbario, Biology Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, USA |
| MASP |
Ministry of Agriculture, São Paulo, Brazil |
| MBA |
Museum de Buenos Aires. |
| MBL |
Museu Bocage, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal [destroyed by fire in March 1978] |
| MBM |
Herbário, Museu Botânico Municipal, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil |
| MBML |
Museu de Biologia Mello Leitão, Santa Teresa, Espiritu Santo, Brazil. |
| MBNH |
Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| MBUCV |
Museo de Biología, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela |
| MCDE |
Mitrani Center for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University, Sede Boqer, Israel |
| MCG |
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genoa, Italy |
| MCN |
Museu de Cienciâs Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| MCNA |
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, Vitoria, Spain |
| MCNG |
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Guanare, Portuguesa, Venezuela |
| MCP |
Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| MCSNG |
[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Italy, see MCG] |
| MCSNM |
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, Italy |
| MCSNV |
[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona, Italy, see MCV] |
| MCTP |
[Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS, Brazil, see MCP] |
| MCV |
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona, Italy |
| MCZ |
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| MCZR |
Museo Civico di Zoologia, Rome, Italy |
| MD |
Museu Regional do Dundo, Dundo, Luanda-Norte, Angola |
| MDPI |
Department of Primary Industries, Mareeba, QLD, Australia |
| MDUG |
Museo Alfredo Dugès, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| MECN |
Museo Ecuadoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Quito, Ecuador |
| MEL |
National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens, South Yarra, Australia |
| MEUA |
Museo de Entomología, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru |
| MEUV |
Museo de Entomología, Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia |
| MEXU |
Herbario Nacional, Departamento de Botánica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| MFN |
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. |
| MFP |
Museo Felipe Poey, Havana, Cuba |
| MG |
Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil |
| MGAB |
Muzeul de Istorie Naturala Grigore Antipa, Soseaua Kisseleff1, Bucharest, Romania |
| MGC |
McGuire Centre for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Gainesville, USA. |
| MGCL |
McGuire Centre for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Gainesville, USA. |
| MGH |
Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg, Germany [now in ZMH] |
| MGUH |
Geological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| MH |
Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Southern Circle, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India |
| MHB |
Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany. |
| MHBU |
Museum of Hebei University, Baoding, China |
| MHNA |
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle d'Autun, Autun, France |
| MHNB |
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Bucarest, Romania. |
| MHNCSJ |
Museo de Historia Natural, Colegio San José, Medellín, Colombia |
| MHND |
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Dijon, France |
| MHNG |
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland [See also G] |
| MHNL |
Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon, Lyon, France |
| MHNLi |
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Lille, France |
| MHNLS |
Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela. |
| MHNM |
Enc. Herpetología, Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| MHNN |
Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| MHN-NKM/MHNNKM |
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. |
| MHNSM |
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru [formerly MHNJP] |
| MHNT |
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Troyes, France |
| MHNT |
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Jardin des Plantes, Toulouse, France |
| MHNUC |
Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia. |
| MHN-UCN |
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. |
| MHNUN |
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perou. |
| MHN-UNSAAC |
Museo de Historia Natural de Ia Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru |
| MICH |
Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| MIL |
Milwaukee Public Museum, Herbarium |
| MINGA |
Muzeul National de Istorie Naturala Grigore Antipa, Bucharest. |
| MIZ |
Museum of the Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. |
| MIZA |
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Maracay, Venezuela |
| MIZP |
[Museum of the Institute of Zoology, Poland, see PAN] |
| MJAS |
Museum Johan Albert Schlosser (Whereabouts of collection unknown) |
| MK |
[National Museum of Kenya, see NMKE] |
| MLP |
Museo La Plata, La Plata, Argentina [For botany, see LP] |
| MLS |
Museo del Instituto de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia |
| MLU |
Zoologisches Institut, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, Germany |
| MLUH |
[Martin-Luther-Universität, Germany, see MLU] |
| MM |
Magdeburg Museum, Magdeburg, Germany. |
| MMB |
Moravske Muzeum, Brno, Czech Republic |
| MMBL |
Manazuru Marine Biological Laboratory, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan |
| MMK |
McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa |
| MMS |
MacLeay Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| MMUE |
Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| MMUM |
see MMUE |
| MMUS |
[MacLeay Museum, Australia, see MMS] |
| MN |
[Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, see MNRJ] |
| MNCN |
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain |
| MNH |
[Musei Nacionalis Hungarici, Hungary, see MNM] |
| MNHA |
Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan |
| MNHCI |
Museu de Historia Natural Capao da Imbuia, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil |
| MNHJ |
[Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan, see MNHA] |
| MNHM |
Herbarium, Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz/Landessammlung für Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, Germany |
| MNHN |
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France [The MNHN comparative anatomy collection is indicated by the suffix AC; Paleontology collections are labeled PA] |
| MNHNC |
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, Santiago, Chile [For herbarium, see SGO] |
| MNHNCU |
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Havana, Cuba. |
| MNHNP |
[Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France, see MNHN] |
| MNHP |
[Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France, see MNHN] |
| MNHNSD |
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| MNHU |
Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany |
| MNHWU |
Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, Poland |
| MNK |
[Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Bolivia, see MNKM] |
| MNKM |
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia |
| MNM |
Magyar Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum Allattara (Hungarian Natural History Museum), Budapest, Hungary |
| MNNC |
[Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, see MNHNC] |
| MNRJ |
Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| MNS |
[Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile, see MNHNC] |
| MO |
Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA |
| MOL |
Herbario, Departamento Académico de Biología, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru |
| MOM |
Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco |
| MONZ |
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongaewa, Wellington, New Zealand [formerly CM, DMNZ, and NMNZ] |
| MPEG |
Museu Paraense "Emilio Goeldi", Belém, Brazil |
| MPL |
Musée de Port Louis, Mauritius Institute, Mauritius |
| MPM |
Milwaukee Public Museum |
| MPU |
Herbier, Institut de Botanique, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France |
| MRAC |
Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium |
| MRCN |
Museu Rio-Grandense de Ciências Naturais, Pôrto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| MRGS |
Museu do Rio Grande do Sul, Pôrto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. |
| MRSNT |
Museo Regionale di Storia Naturale e mostra permanente del carretto siciliano. Terrasini (PA), Italy |
| MRHN |
[Muséum Royal d’Histoire Naturelle, Belgium, now IRSNB] |
| MRNHS |
[Muséum Royal d'Histoire Naturelle, Sweden, see NHRM] |
| MRSN |
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, Turin, Italy. |
| MS |
[Musée de Zoologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, France, see MZUS] |
| MSC |
Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
| MSNG |
[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Italy, see MCG] |
| MSNM |
[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy, see MCSNM] |
| MSNT |
[Museo Regional di Storia Naturale di Torino, Italy, see MRSN] |
| MSNV |
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona, Italy |
| MSSRF |
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Kalpetta, Wayanad district, Kerala, India |
| MSU |
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
| MSUB |
Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA |
| MSUEL |
Department of Entomology Collection, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA |
| MTD |
Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany [Not to be confused with MTD] |
| MTKD |
Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany [Not to be confused with MTKD] |
| MTM |
[Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Hungary, see MNM] |
| MTQ |
Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
| MU |
Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Texas |
| MUB |
Institute of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic |
| MUB |
Herbario, Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Botánica, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain |
| MUP |
Museu do Historia Natural, Universidade do Pôrto, Pôrto, Portugal |
| MUPP |
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland [For herbarium, see POZ-] |
| MUS |
Malaysia Universiti Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia |
| Mus. Banks |
Collection of Sir Joseph Banks (now mostly at BMNH) |
| MUSM |
Museo de Historia Natural Javier Prado, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Jesús María, Peru |
| MV |
w:Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
| MVMA |
National Museum of Victoria, Department of Entomology, Abbotsford, Australia [Now at MV?] |
| MVUP |
Museo de Vertebrados de la Universidad de Panamá, Panama City, Panama |
| MVZ |
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA |
| MWM |
Museum Witt, Munich, Germany |
| MZB |
Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor, Java, Indonesia |
| MZFC |
Museo de Zoologia, from Facultad de Ciencias, Mexico. |
| MZH |
Zoological Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FInland |
| MZLS |
Museo Zoologico La Specola, Florence, Italy |
| MZLU |
Museum of Zoology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden |
| MZNA |
Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. |
| MZT |
Zoological Museum, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia |
| MZUB |
Museo di Zoologia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
| MZUC |
Museo de Zoologia, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile. |
| MZUCR |
Museo de Zoologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica |
| MZUF |
Università di Firenze, Museo Zoologico La Specola, Via Romana 17, 50125 Firenze, Italy. |
| MZUJ |
Zoological Museum, the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland |
| MZUM |
Museum of Zoology, University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia |
| MZUN |
Museum of Zoology, University of Napoli, Naples, Italy |
| MZUP |
Museo Zoologico, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy |
| MZUS |
Musée de Zoologie, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France |
| MZUSP, MZSP |
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| MZUT |
Museo di Zoologia, Instituto di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy [Now housed with MRSN] |
| MZV |
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii (Museum and Institute of Zoology), Warsaw, Poland |
Musea "N"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| NA |
National Arboretum, Pocheon, South Korea |
| NA |
Herbarium, United States National Arboretum, Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
| NAP |
Herbarium Neapolitanum, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy |
| NMBAO |
National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| NCBN |
National Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands. |
| NCF |
Northwestern College of Forestry, Yangling, China |
| NCSU |
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA |
| NCU |
Insect Museum, National Chung-Hsin University, Taichung, Taiwan. |
| NDG |
Herbarium, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA |
| NEFU |
Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China |
| NFIC |
National Forest Insect Collection, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India. |
| NFU |
Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China |
| NH |
KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Durban, South Africa |
| NHM |
Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland |
| NHMB |
Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland |
| NHMC |
Natural History Museum, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece |
| NHMD |
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Denmark. |
| NHMG |
Naturhistoriska Museet, Göteborg, Sweden |
| NHMHP |
Natural History Museum of Hyôgo Prefecture |
| NHMK |
Natural History Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal. |
| NHML |
Natural History Museum, London [see BMNH] |
| NHMO |
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway. |
| NHMP |
[Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France, see MNHN] |
| NHMS |
Natural History Museum of Shizuoka, Japan. |
| NHMU |
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibnitz Institut für Evolution und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany. |
| NHMUM |
Natural History Museum, Universiti Malaysia, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. |
| NHMW (NHMV) |
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria [for botany, see W] |
| NHNM |
Naturhistorisches Nationalmuseum, Prague, Czech Republic |
| NHRM |
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| NHRS |
[Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Sweden, see NHRM] |
| NHT |
National Herbarium of Tanzania, Tropical Pesticides Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania |
| NIAS |
National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
| NIAES |
National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
| NIBR |
National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, South Korea |
| NICH |
Herbarium, Hattori Botanical Laboratory, Nichinan-shi, Miyazaki-ken, Japan |
| NIM |
Nawa Insect Museum, Gifu, Japan. |
| NIGP |
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. |
| NIOJ |
National Institute of Oceanology, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| NIWA |
National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand |
| NKU |
Insect Collection, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. |
| NKUM |
Insect Collection, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. (See NKU) |
| NMB |
National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| NMBA |
Naturhistorisches Museum der Benedikiner-Abtei Admont, Admont, Austria |
| NMBZ |
Invertebrate Collection, National History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
| NMI |
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
| NMK |
National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya |
| NMKE |
National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya |
| NML |
Naturmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland |
| NMM |
[National Museum of Victoria, see NMV] |
| NMN |
National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya. |
| NMNHI |
National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi, India |
| NMNHM |
National Museum of Natural History, Madrid, Spain. |
| NMNHS |
Insect Collection, National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| NMNK |
National Museum of Nepal, Chlauni, Kathmandu, Nepal. |
| NMNS |
National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan |
| NMNW |
National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek. |
| NMNZ |
[National Museum of New Zealand, New Zealand, see MONZ] |
| NMP |
Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
| NMPC |
Department of Entomology, National Museum Natural History, Prague, Czech Republic |
| NMPh |
National Museum of the Philippines, Manilla, Philippines |
| National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| NMS |
National Museum of Singapore, Singapore |
| NMV |
National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| NMW |
[Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, see NHMW] |
| NMWC |
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| NMZB |
National Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe [see also NMBZ] |
| NMZL |
National Museum of Zambia, Livingstone, Zambia |
| NNCNZ |
National Nematode Collection New Zealand [Now part of NZAC] |
| NOCC |
Herbarium, National Orchid Conservation Center, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China |
| NPC |
National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India |
| NPIB |
Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Xining, Qinghai, China. |
| NPTS |
Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles |
| NRCV |
Nature Research Centre of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania. |
| NRM |
[Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Sweden, see NHRM] |
| NRS |
[Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Sweden, see NHRM] |
| NSM |
Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada. |
| NSMT |
National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| NSMW |
Naturwissenschftlich Sammlung, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| NSPRI |
NSPR Institute, Lagos, Nigeria. |
| NSW |
National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| NSWA |
New South Wales Agricultural Scientific Collection Trust, Biological and Chemical Research Institute, Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia |
| NTM |
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia |
| NTNUB |
Department of Biology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan |
| NTOU |
National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan |
| NTU |
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan |
| NTUIM |
Insect Museum, Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan |
| NTUMA |
[National Taiwan University, see NTU] |
| NU |
Bews Herbarium, School of Biological & Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus, South Africa |
| NUH |
National University, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| NUS |
National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| NWAFU |
Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. |
| NWUJ |
Nagoya Women's University, Nagoya, Japan |
| NY |
herbarium, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, USA |
| NZAC |
New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Entomology Division, Landcare Research New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand |
| NZCS |
National Zoological Collection of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname |
| NZOI |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington, New Zealand |
Musea "P"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| P |
Herbier du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France [See also MNHN] |
| P-JU |
Jussieu herbarium at P |
| P-LAM |
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck herbarium at P |
| PACL |
Punjab Agricultural College & Research Institute, Lyallpur, Pakistan |
| PAN |
Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland [See also MVP] |
| PC |
Herbier Cryptogamique, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France [See also P and MNHN] |
| PCZM |
Presidency College, Museum of Zoology, Calcutta, India |
| PE |
Chinese National Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
| PEM |
Port Elizabeth Museum, Port Elizabeth, Republic of South Africa |
| PEUFR |
Herbário, Área de Botânica, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil |
| PIM, PIN |
Paleontologicheskii Institut Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk (Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia |
| PKHH |
private collection of Kai Heller, Germany, Heikendorf |
| PLKB |
private collection of Lyudmila A. Komarova, Russia, Biysk |
| PMA |
Herbarium, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá, Panama |
| PMAM |
Beijing Natural History Museum, Beijing, China |
| PMBC |
Phuket Marine Biological Centre Reference Collection, Phuket, Thailand |
| PMNH |
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| PMSL |
Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
| PNH |
Philippine National Herbarium, National Museum, Manila, Philippines |
| POM |
Pomona College Herbarium at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden [See RSA] |
| POSU |
Poinar amber collection, Oregon State University, Oregon, USA |
| POZG |
Herbarium, The Natural History Collections Faculty, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland |
| PPDRI |
Department of Agricultural Zoology, Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute, Tehran, Iran [For botany, see IRAN] |
| PPRI |
Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa |
| PQMAB |
Plant Quarantine Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing |
| PR |
Herbarium, Department of Botany, National Museum in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic |
| PRC |
Herbarium, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic |
| PRE |
National Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria, South Africa |
| PRU |
H. G. W. J. Schweickerdt Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| PSU |
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA |
| PUCE |
Pontifica Universidad Católica de Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador |
| PUCP |
Department of Zoology, Punjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab, India |
| PUP |
Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, Patiala, India. |
| PUPB |
Department of Zoology, University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
| PVSJ |
Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, San Juan, Argentina [?vertebrate paleontology collection] |
| PWMP |
Private Collection Werner Mohrig, Puddemin, Germany |
Musea "S"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| S |
Herbarium, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm |
| SADC/GEF |
Southern African Development Community/Global Environmental Facility |
| SAFAI |
Laboratorio di Entomologia, R. Stazione Sperimentale di Agrumicolturae Frutticoltura, Acireale, Sicily, Italy [status uncertain] |
| SAIAB |
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa [formerly RUSI, Rhodes University Smith Institute] |
| SAIMR |
South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa. |
| SAM/SAMC |
[South African Museum, see SAMCT] |
| SAMA |
South Australia Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
| SAMCT |
South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa |
| SANC |
South African National Collection of Insects, Pretoria, South Africa |
| SAR |
Sarawak Herbarium, Forest Research Centre, Department of Forestry, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia |
| SAU |
Herbarium, Department of Basic Courses, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, Sichuan, China |
| SAUL |
Shenyang Agricultural University, Liaoning, China. |
| SBMNH |
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, United States |
| SCAU |
South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China |
| SCN |
Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela. |
| SCSFI |
South China Sea Fisheries Institute, Guangzhou, China |
| SDEI |
Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg, Germany. |
| SDM |
State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| SDNHM |
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, USA |
| SDU |
Shandong University, Jinan, China |
| SEAN |
Museo Entomológico "S.E.A.", León, Nicaragua |
| SEHU |
Systematic Entomology, Hokkaido University, Sappora, Japan. |
| SEL |
Herbarium, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida, USA |
| SEM |
Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China. |
| SFI |
Morski Instytut Rybacki (Sea Fisheries Institute), Gdynia, Poland |
| SGO |
Herbario, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile |
| SHNU |
Shanghai Normal University, China |
| SI |
Herbarium, Instituto de Botánica Darwinion, San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| SIE |
Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Academia Sinica, Shanghai, China. |
| SING |
Herbarium, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore |
| SIO |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego |
| SIU |
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois, USA |
| SIZ |
Shanxi Institute of Zoology, Shanxi, China |
| SIZK |
Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiew. |
| SJRP |
Herbário, Departamento Zoologia e Botânica, UNESP, Campus São José Rio Prêto, São José do Rio Prêto, São Paulo, Brazil |
| SLJG |
Steiermarkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria |
| SM |
Strecker Museum, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA |
| SMB |
State Museum of Biology, Moscow, Russia |
| SMBL |
Museum of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Sirahama, Japan |
| SME |
Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille, France |
| SMF |
Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. |
| SMK |
Sarawak Museum Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia |
| SMKM |
Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [Collection partly transferred to BMNH] |
| SMN |
[Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, see SMNS] |
| SMNH |
Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| SMNK |
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| SMNS |
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany |
| SMOC |
Silesian Museum, Opava, Czech Republic |
| SMT |
[Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, see MTKD] |
| SNG (SMF) |
Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. |
| SNHM-BS |
State Natural History Museum Braunschweig, Germany. |
| SNM |
Museum of Natural History, Slovak National Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| SNMG |
Shinjiko Nature Museum, Gobius, Hirata, Shimane. |
| SNSD |
Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen (Museum für Tierkunde), Dresden, Germany. |
| SNU |
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| SP |
Herbário, Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo, Brazil |
| SPCS |
Sergio P. Carvalho e Silva personal collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| SPF |
Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
| SPM |
Sabah Parks, Malaysia. |
| SR |
Stonerose Interpretive Center, Republic, Washington, USA |
| SSTTU |
Sumy State Teachers' Training University, Sumy, Ukraine |
| SSTU |
School of Science, Tokai University, Japan. |
| STC |
Sichuan Teacher’s College, Nanchong, Sichuan, China. |
| STR |
Herbier, Institut de Botanique, Strasbourg, France |
| SU |
[Stanford University, now in CAS] |
| SUCH |
Colchic Herbarium, Sukhumi Botanical Garden of Georgian Academy of Sciences, Sukhumi, Georgia |
| SUFS |
Shimonoseki University of Fisheries, Shimonoseki, Japan |
| SWMNH |
[Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Swedish Museum of Natural History, see NHRM] |
| SYNU |
Shenyang Normal University, Shengyang, China |
| SZE |
Zoology Department, Aegean University, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey. |
| SZMN |
Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk, Russia. |
Musea "T"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| TAIF |
Herbarium, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan |
| TAN |
Herbier, Département Botanique, Parc de Tsimbazaza, Antananarivo, Madagascar |
| TARI |
Herbarium, Botanical Department, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran, Iran |
| TAU |
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| TBI |
National Herbarium of Georgia, Institute of Botany, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia |
| TCD |
Herbarium, School of Botany, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
| TCWC |
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Department of Wildlife Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA |
| TENN |
University of Tennessee Herbarium, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA |
| TESRI |
Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute, Chichi, Nantou, Taiwan. |
| TEX |
Herbarium, Plant Resources Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas |
| TFIC |
Tasmanian Forestry Insect Collection, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| TFRI |
Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei. |
| THU |
Department of Biology, Tunghai University, Taiwan |
| TI |
Science College Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan [Formerly Tokyo Imperial University] |
| TIU |
[Tokyo Imperial University, now TI] |
| TLF |
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria. (See TLMF) |
| TLMF |
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria. |
| TM |
[Transvaal Museum, see TMP] |
| TME |
Toyosato Museum of Entomology, Tsukuba, Japan |
| TMH |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| TMNH |
Toyohashi Museum of Natural History, Aichi, Japan |
| TMP, TMSA |
Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa |
| TNHC |
Texas Natural History Collection, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Texas, USA |
| TNHM |
Thailand Natural History Museum, National Science Museum, Pathumthani Province, Thailand |
| TNHMC |
Tianjin Natural History Museum, Tianjin, China |
| TNM |
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan. |
| TNU |
Department of Zoology, V. I. Vernadsky Taurida National University, Simferopol, Ukraine |
| TO |
Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy |
| TOYA |
Toyama Science Museum, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan |
| TPM |
Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Tochigi, Japan |
| TRFI |
Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan [For botany see TAIF] |
| TRT |
Trouessart collections at [MNHN] |
| TSMF |
See TLMF |
| TSMHN |
Teylers Strichtina Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands |
| TTU |
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA |
| TU |
F. Edward Hebert Research Center, Museum of Natural History, Tulane University, Belle Chasse, Lousiana, USA |
| TUC |
Herbarium, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA |
| TUAJ |
Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan |
| TUKN |
Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal |
| TZM |
[National Science Museum, Japan, see NSMT] |
| TUZM |
Museum of Zoology, Turku University, Finland |
Musea "U"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| U |
[National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Herbarium Utrecht, now at L] |
| UAM |
Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología, Mérida, Venezuela. |
| UASK |
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Lenin Street, 15, 252650, Kiev 30, Ukraine |
| UASL |
Nature Museum, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Lvov, Ukraine |
| UAT |
Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, México. |
| UAZ |
Amphibian and Reptile Collection, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85720, Arizona, USA. |
| UBC-SEM |
Spencer Entomological Museum of the University of British Columbia, Canada |
| UC |
University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA |
| UCA |
Universitair Centrum, Antwerpen |
| UCB |
University of California, Essig Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomological Sciences, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA |
| UCCC |
Museo de Zoologia de la Universidad de Concepcíon, Chile. |
| UCCIPR |
University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada |
| UCD |
University of California, The Bohart Museum of Entomology, Davis, CA 95616, USA |
| UChS |
Museo Entomologico, Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Agronomia, Casilla 1004, Santiago, Chile |
| UCM |
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Broadway between 15th & 16th Streets, Boulder, Colorado 80309, U.S.A. |
| UCMP |
University of California Museum of Paleontology, Valley Life Sciences Bldg., Berkeley, CA 94720, USA |
| UCR |
Coleccion de Herpetología, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. |
| UCRC |
University of California, Riverside Entomological Research Museum, USA |
| UEC |
Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil |
| UF |
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800, U.S.A. |
| UFC |
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. |
| UFPR |
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. |
| UFRN |
Herbário, Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
| UGA |
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA |
| UHIM |
University of Hawaii Insect Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. |
| UIB |
Department of Biology, University of Inchon, Inchon. |
| UIMNH |
University of Illinois, Museum of Natural History, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. |
| UK |
University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA |
| ULABG |
Universidad de los Andes, Departamento de Geografia, Mérida, Venezuela. |
| UM |
Umtali Museum |
| UM |
University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
| UMB |
Übersee Museum, Bremen, Germany. |
| UMC |
University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy. |
| UMCE |
Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion, Santiago, Chile |
| UMKL |
University of Malaya, Zoology Department, Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur 22-11, Malaysia. |
| UMML |
University of Miami Marine Laboratory, Miami, Florida, USA. |
| UMMZ |
University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, USA. |
| UMNH |
Utah Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, USA |
| UMO |
Hope Entomological Collections, University Museum, Park Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PW, England, UK |
| UMSM |
University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia. |
| UMSP |
University of Minnesota, Department of Entomology, 219 Hodson Hall, 1980 Folwell Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108, USA |
| UMW |
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| UMZ |
University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK. |
| UMZC |
University Museum, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, England |
| UNA |
Herbarium, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA |
| UNAM |
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Colección Entomológica, Instituto de Biología, Apdo. Postal 70133, Mexico, Distrito Federal 04510, Mexico |
| UNIMAS |
University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia. |
| UNR |
Herbario, Botánica y Ecología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina |
| UNSM |
University of Nebraska State Museum. |
| UNT |
Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentine. |
| UOPJ |
Entomological Laboratory, University of Osaka Prefecture, Mosu, Umemachi Sakai, Osaka 593, Japan |
| UP |
Biology Department, University of Papua and New Guinea, University P.O. Box 4820, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. |
| UPLB |
Natural History Museum, University of Philippenes at los Baños, Philippines. |
| UPRG |
Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Departmento de Fitotécnica, Museo de Entomología, Apartado 3, Lambayeque, Lambayeque, Peru |
| UPRM |
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Biología, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00708, USA. |
| UPRP |
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Biología, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico 00931, USA. |
| UPS |
Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner St., CMB 1088, Tacoma, WA, USA |
| UPS |
Museum of Evolution, Botany Section, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala , Sweden |
| UPS-THUNB |
Thunberg Herbarium, Uppsala University, Uppsala , Sweden |
| UPZB |
Federal University of Paraná, Department of Zoology, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. |
| UQIC |
Insect Collection, Department of Entomology, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia (Holotypes were transferred to QMBA) |
| URIZ |
Universita di Roma, Instituto di Zoologia, Roma, Italy. |
| URP |
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Av. Benavides cdra. 54, Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru. |
| US |
United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. |
| USC |
University of San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Philippines. |
| USM |
Herbario, Division de Botánica, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru |
| USM |
University of Southern Mississippi |
| USNM |
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A. |
| USNPC |
United States National Parasitological Collection, Maryland, USA. |
| USP |
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| USU |
Utah State University, Department of Biology, Entomological Museum, Logan, UT 84332, USA |
| USZ |
Herbario del Oriente Boliviano, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia |
| UT |
Garrett Herbarium, Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| UTA |
University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Biological Sciences, UTA Box 19489, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA. |
| UTC |
Intermountain Herbarium, Biology Department, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA |
| UTEP |
University of Texas at El Paso, Laboratory for Environmental Biology, Centennial Museum, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, TX 79968-0519, USA. |
| UU |
University of Utah, Department of Biology, 1400 E. 2nd South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. |
| UV |
Universidad del Valle, Guatemala City, Guatemala. |
| UVC |
Museo de Vertebrados, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. |
| UWBM |
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| UWIM |
University of Wyoming Insect Museum, Laramie, USA |
| UWZM |
University of Wisconsin Zoology Museum. |
| UZIL |
Universitets Zoologiska Institut, Lund, Sweden. |
| UZM |
Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| UZMC |
University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museums, Department of Entomology, Universitetsparken, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark |
| UZMH |
Zoological Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, P. Rautatiek 13, Helsinski, SF-00100, Finland |
| UZMO |
Universitetet i Oslo, Zoologisk Museum, Sarsgaten 1, Oslo 5, Norway. |
Musea "Z"
| Acronym |
Museum |
| Z |
Herbarium, Institut für Systematische Botanik, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland |
| ZAUC |
Zhejiang Agricultural University, China. |
| ZBI |
Institute of Zoology and Botany at Estonian Argricultural University, Tartu, Estonia. |
| ZCDM |
Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum, Shandong, China. |
| ZCUD |
Zoological Collection of the University of Debrecen, Hungary. |
| ZDEU |
Zoology Department, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. |
| ZFC |
Zhejiang Forestry College, China. |
| ZFMK |
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koeing, Adenaueralle 160, Bonn D-53113, Germany |
| ZHUB |
See ZMHU. |
| ZIHU |
Hiroshima University, Zoological Institute, 1-1-89 Higashi-senda-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 30, Japan. |
| ZIJ |
Zoological Institute, University of Jena, Germany |
| ZIK |
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, 252.150 Kiev 30, Ukraine. |
| ZIL |
Museum of Zoology, Lund University, Helgonav 3, Lund S-223, Sweden |
| ZIN, ZISP |
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
(Formerly ZIL, Zoological Institute, Leningrad, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad.)
|
| ZITIU |
Zoological Institute, Tokyo Imperial University, Japan. |
| ZIUG |
Zoologisches Institut, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. Transferred to ZFMK in 1977. |
| ZIUS |
Universitetes Stockholm, Zoologiska Institutionen, Box 6801, 113 86 Stockholm, Sweden. |
| ZIUU |
Uppsala Universitet, Zoologiska Museum, Villvägen 9, Box 561, 75 122 Uppsala, Sweden. |
| ZIUW |
Universität Wien, Zoologisches Institut, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria. |
| ZLK |
Zoologische Landessammlungen, Karlruhe, Germany. |
| ZLKU |
Zoological Laboratory Kyushu University, Japan |
| ZLMU |
Zoological Laboratory, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. |
| ZMA |
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Zoologisch Museum, Plantage Middenlaan 53, Amsterdam C, Netherlands. |
| ZMAN |
Zoologisch Museum, Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoologie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, Amsterdam 1018 DH, Netherlands |
| ZMAS |
Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| ZMB, ZMHB, ZMHU |
Museum für Naturkunde, Universität Humboldt, Invalidenstrasse 43, 104 Berlin, Germany. |
| ZMBI |
Zoological Museum, Biological Institute, Novosibirsk, Russia. |
| ZMBJ |
Zoologische Museum Buitenzorg, Java, Indonesia. |
| ZMFM |
Zoological Museum of the Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland. |
| ZMG |
Zoologischen Museums Greifswald. Griefswald, Germany. |
| ZMH |
Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, D-2000 Hamburg 13, Germany. |
| ZMHU |
Zoologisches Museums der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany. (See now LIEB) |
| ZMJU |
Zoological Museum, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. |
| ZMK |
Zoological Musem, Oslo, Norway. |
| ZMKU |
Kiev University Zoological Museum, Kiev, Ukraine. |
| ZMKSU |
Zoological Museum of the Kijev State University, Kijev, Ukraine. (= Zoological Museum, Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev???). |
| ZMLG |
Zoologisches Museum, Lübeck, Germany |
| ZMLU |
Lunds Universitet, Zoologiska Institutionen, Helgonavägen 3, 223 62 Lund, Sweden. |
| ZMM, ZMMU, ZMUM |
Zoological Museum of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, 6, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str., Moscow 103009, Russia. |
| ZMMU |
see ZMM |
| ZMNH |
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou, P.R. China. |
| ZMO |
Zoological Museum, Sars gt. 1, 0318 Oslo, Norway |
| ZMPU |
Zoology Museum, Dept. of Zoology, Punjabi University, India. |
| ZMR |
Zoological Museum, Rome, Italy. |
| ZMTI |
Zoological Museum, College of Agriculture, Tehran University, Karaj, Iran. |
| ZMUC |
Universitets København, Zoologisk Museum, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| ZMUH |
Zoologisches Museum der Universität Hamburg, Germany. |
| ZMUJ, ZMJU |
Zoological Museum, the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland |
| ZMUM |
see ZMM |
| ZMUN |
Zoological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. |
| ZMUO |
Zoological Museum University of Oulu, Finland. |
| ZMUP |
Museo Zoologico, (Istituto di Zoologia, Zoologia Comparativo e Genetico) Università di Padova, Italy. |
| ZMUT |
[Museum of Zoology, Turku University, see TUZM] |
| ZMUU |
Zoologiska Museet, Uppsala Universitet, P.O. Box 561, S-751 22 Uppsala, Sweden. |
| ZMV, NMW |
Zoological Museum of Vienna (= Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, NHMW) |
| ZMHU, ZMVNU |
Zoological Museum, Hanoi University of Science (member of Vietnam National University), 19 Le Thanh Tong, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| ZRC |
Zoological Reference Collection, Department of Zoology, University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 10.
(Formerly National Museum & formerly Raffles Museum).
|
| ZSI |
Zoological Survey of India, National Zoological Collection, 34, Chittaranjan Avenue, Calcutta, West Bengal 700 012, India |
| ZSIC |
Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 27 JL Nehru Road, Klkata, 700 016, India. Formerly Indian Museum. |
| ZSI-E |
Zoological Survey of India, Eastern Regional Station, Shillong, India. (Now amalgamated with ZSI collections.) |
| ZSI-M |
Zoological Survey of India, Mylapore, Madras 600 004, India. |
| ZSI-NRS |
Zoological Survey of India, Northern Regional Station, Dehra Dunn, India. |
| ZSI-SRS |
Zoological Survey of India, Southern Regional Station, Chennai, India. |
| ZSI-WRS |
Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Station, Pune, India. |
| ZSM, ZSMB, ZSMC, ZSSM |
Zoologische Staatssammlung, Münchhausenstr. 21, 81247 Munich, Germany. (Preferred acronym: ZSM) |
| ZSZMH |
Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg, Germany |
| ZUEC |
Museu de História Natural, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13081-970 Campinas, S.P, Brazil. |
| ZUFRJ |
Departamento de Zoolgia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, 21944-970 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
