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Standard Symbolic Codes for Institutional Resource Collections in Herpetology and Ichthyology
Version 3.0 Compiled by Mark H. Sabaj Prez, 23 February 2012

Citation: Sabaj Prez, M.H. (editor). 2012. Standard symbolic codes for institutional resource collections in
herpetology and ichthyology: an Online Reference. Verson 3.0 (23 February 2012). Electronically accessible
at http://www.asih.org/, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Washington, DC.
Primary sources (all cross-checked): Leviton et al. 1985, Leviton & Gibbs 1988, http://www.asih.org/codons.pdf (originating with
John Bruner) and Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010 (on-line v. 15 Jan)
Additional on-line resources for Biological Collections (cross-check: token)
http://zefod.genres.de/
http://www.fishwise.co.za/
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Holotype
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_history_museums
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/ToolBox/C_DOC/lxr/source/data/institution_codes.txt
http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/?action=page&page=museum_abbreviations
http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/static/index.html
http://www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/acttax/doctos/colecciones_cientificas.html
http://www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/catalogo_autoridades/autorescolectorescolecciones/Instituciones_Colecciones.xls
http://www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/catalogo_autoridades/autorescolectorescolecciones.old/Instituciones_Colecciones.xls
http://www.dinohunter.info/html/museums.htm
Citations
Fricke, R. & W.N. Eschmeyer. 2010. A guide to Fish Collections in the Catalog of Fishes database. On-line version of 15 January
2010.
Leviton, A.E. & R.H., Gibbs, Jr. 1988. Standards in Herpetology and Ichthyology. Standard symbolic codes for institution
resource collections in herpetology and ichthyology. Copeia 1988 (no. 1): 280-282.
Leviton, A.E., R.H. Gibbs, Jr., E. Heal & C.E. Dawson. 1985. Standards in herpetology and ichthyology: Part I. Standard
symbolic codes for institutional resource collections in herpetology and ichthyology. Copeia 1985 (no. 3): 802-832.
Notes: "formerly", "alternatively" and "newly" are short for "formerly named, listed and/or known as", etc.
Names for collections/institutions ordered with preference given to abbreviation
Please send corrections and updates, however minor, to Mark Sabaj Prez at sabaj@ansp.org.
Equally welcome is confirmation that a particular abbreviation remains in current use or disuse.
For newly added collections and abbreviations, please include address and URL (if available).
ZEFOD: information system to botanical and zoological

research collections in Germany
Fishwise: Universal Fish Catalog
Wikispecies, Holotype, directory
List of natural history museums, From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
National Center for Biotechnology Information
List of museum abbreviations compiled by Darrel R.
Frost. 2010. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online
Reference.
BCI: Biological Collections Index (to be key component in
GBIFs Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System
(GBRDS))
Directory of Mexican collections
Download Excel file of collections compiled by CONABIO
Download Excel file of collections compiled by CONABIO
(old version?)
Directory of paleo museum abbreviations
ABBREVIATION NAME
COUNTRY
L85 L&G F&E
AAU
Ethiopia
L85
ABE
ABML
ACAP
AFAQ
AFY
AHF
AI
AIM
AKPM
AL
ALA
AM
AMA
AMG
AMNH
AMRL
AMS
ANC
ANSP
ANU
ANWC
APFS/ZSI
API
APM
APSU
AQDM
ARC
ARI
ARK
ASB
ASIO
ASIZB
ASIZP
Addis Ababa University, Department of Biology

Tokiharu Abe Personal Collection; some types were housed at Tokyo fish market. Collection to be
transferred to ZUMT.
Auke Bay Marine Lab., Alaska & Northwestern Pacific Fisheries Center
Aquaculture Center of Aomori Prefecture [alternatively Aomoriken Suisan Zoshoku Senta],
Higashitsugaru
Queensland Amateur Fishing Clubs Association Inc. [formerly Amateur Fisheries Association of
Queensland]; most specimens transferred to Queensland Museum (QM)
Agustn Fernndez-Ypez Personal Collection; extant fishes at FMNH, MBUCV, MHNLS
Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California, California; Fish types incorporated
into LACM, Non-type collection still at AHF
Asociacin Ictiolgica, La Plata
Auckland War Memorial Museum [formerly Auckland Institute and Museum, name formally
changed to Auckland War Memorial Museum in 1996], Auckland; AIM retained for consistency
Akita Prefectural Museum, Akita
Alabama Museum of Natural History [formerly University of Alabama Museum of Natural History
(UAMNH)], Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Also as ALA, UNAL (both obsolete), UAIC (current)
Obsolete; corrected to UAIC (Leviton & Gibbs 1988); also as AL.
See AMS.
Assessoria Para Meio Ambiente, ELETROSUL, Florianpolis, Santa Catarina (fish); also as AMAElectrosul.
Albany Museum, Grahamstown
American Museum of Natural History, New York; see also F:AM (paleo)
Alabama Marine Resources Laboratory, Dauphin Island
Australian Museum [formerly Colonial Museum Sydney (1827-1836)], Sydney, New South Wales;
also as AM (herps)
Departamento de Colecciones Naturales Marinas del Acuario Nacional de Cuba.
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University [formerly Academy of Natural Sciences],
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; current for fishes, herps and vertebrate paleontology as three
separately cataloged collections
Australian National University, Department of Zoology, Canberra
Australian National Wildlife Collection, Canberra
See ZSI/APFS.
Alabama Polytechnic Institute; obsolete, replaced by AUM (fishes)
Aomori Prefectural Museum, Aomori
Austin Peay State University, Museum, Clarkesville, Tennessee
Aquaculture Department Museum, Southest Asian Fisheries Development Center, Tigbauen, Iloilo
City, Panay
Atlantic Reference Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick
Research Institute for Aquaculture No. 1, Dinh Bang, Tu Son, Bac Ninh; also as RIA1, RIAH
University of Arkansas, Museum, Fayetteville
See ASK.
Chinese Academy of Sciences [formerly Academia Sinica], Institute of Oceanology, Quingdao
Chinese Academy of Sciences [formerly Academia Sinica], Institute of Zoology [formerly Fan
Memorial Institute of Biology (ZMFMIB, FMIB, 1928-1962)], Beijing; also recently cited as
IOZCAS for both fishes and herps
Academia Sinica, Institute of Zoology, Biodiversity Research Center, Taipei, Taiwan; replaces
ASIZT (Lee et al. 2009)
Japan
F&E
U.S.A.
Japan
L&G
L85
F&E
Australia
F&E
Venezuela
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E
Argentina
New Zealand
F&E Vanegas-Ros et al. 2011

L85
F&E Tom Trnski and Brian Gill pers. comm. 2010
Japan
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Australia
F&E
L85 L&G
F&E
Schleip & O'Shea 2010
Brazil
Godoy 1980
South Africa
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
L85
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
Australia
L85
F&E
Cuba
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
Australia
Australia
India
U.S.A.
Japan
U.S.A.
L85
L85
F&E Ned Gilmore pers. comm. 2010
F&E
J. Armbruster pers. comm. 2010
F&E
L85
Philippines
L&G
Canada
Vietnam
U.S.A.
India
China
L85 L&G
L85
F&E
F&E
China
L85
F&E
Taiwan
SOURCE FOR ABBREVIATION

(L85=Leviton et al. 1985, L&G=Leviton & Gibbs
1988, F&E=Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010)
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
BNHM
Academia Sinica [Chinese Academy of Sciences], Institute of Zoology, Taipei; replaced by ASIZP
(Lee et al. 2009)
The Asiatic Society, Museum, Kolkata, West Bengal, India; also as ASB
Alejandro Solrzano private collection, Serpentario Nacional
Academy of Science of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, Arizona
Auburn University; obsolete, replaced by AUM
Auburn University Natural History Museum, Auburn, Alabama (fishes and herps); also as AU and
API (both obsolete)
See AUM
Aquario Vasco da Gama, Lisboa
Acervo Zoolgico da Universidade Santa Ceclia, Santos, So Paulo
Biologische Anstalt Helgoland [formerly Kniglich Biologische Anstalt Helgoland (1892-1918)],
Helgoland
Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, Bermuda Zoological Society [formerly Natural History
Society], Flatts Village; also as BZS, BNHS
Bethel College, Newton, Kansas (herps)
See NMFSH.
British Columbia Provincial Museum; obsolete, replaced by RBCM
See BCUE.
Department of Biology, The Graduate School of Higher Education, Cheongju University, Chongju
[=Jeonju]; also as BCU
Department of Biology, Teacher's College, Kyungpook National University, Daegu
The Ulster Museum, Department of Natural Sciences, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, Riverine Station [formerly Freshwater Fisheries
Research Station], Museum, Chandpur
See DHISUB.
Institute of Biology and Ecology [formerly Biological Institute Kragujevac], Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac
Biological Institute, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Montenegro
[Univerzitet Crne Gore], Podgorica; also as BZF, BZT
Zoological Museum, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya,
Kuala Lumpur; also as UMKL (preferred, as in Ng & Kim 2008)
Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Biological Institute, Ulan Bator [=Ulaanbaatar]
Kunsan National University, Department of Biology, Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do
Biological Laboratory, Akasaka Imperial Palace, Imperial Household, Tokyo; also as LIAIP, LICPP
(both obsolete); changed to BLIP in 2008-09 (Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010)
Biological Laboratory, Imperial Palace, Tokyo; previously as BLIH, LIAIP, LICPP
Museo de Biologa, Departamento de Biologa, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad
del Zulia, Maracaibo, Zulia
Beijing Museum of Natural History [formerly National Central Museum of Natural History (19511962)], Beijing; also as CNHM (herps).
Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)], London; also as NHM;
NHMUK is preferred abbreviation for specimen citation as of 1 Jan 2011.
Borneo Marine Research Institute [Institut Penyelidikan Marin Borneo (IPMB); formerly Fisheries
Research Centre, Likas (1995-2000)], Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; also as FRCL, IPMB
Berkeley Natural History Museums consortium; See MVZ & UCMP
BNHM
Bombay Natural History Society, Museum, Natural History Collection, Mumbai [formerly Bombay] India
L85
BNHMD
BNHS
Bengal Natural History Society, Natural History Museum, Darjeeling, West Bengal
See BAMZ.
L85 L&G
ASIZT
ASK
ASL
ASSL
ASU
AU
AUM
AUNHMLC
AVG
AZUSC
BAH
BAMZ
BC
BCFH
BCPM
BCU
BCUE
BEKU
BELUM
BFRIRS
BFSU
BIK
BIP
BIRCUM
BIUB
BKNU
BLIH
BLIP
BLUZ
BMAM
BMNH
BMRI
Taiwan
India
Costa Rica
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
F&E
Daza et al. 2009
L85
L85
F&E
J. Armbruster pers. comm. 2010
U.S.A.
L85 L&G
U.S.A.
Portugal
Brazil
L85
Germany
L85
F&E Gilbert 1998; J. Armbruster pers. comm. 2010

Taggart et al. 2006
F&E Carvalho-Filho et al. 2010
F&E
Bermuda
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Canada
South Korea
Taggart et a. 2006
F&E
F&E Gavin Hanke pers. comm. 2010
F&E
L85
South Korea
F&E Ferraris 2007
South Korea
U.K.
F&E
F&E
Bangladesh
F&E
Bulgaria
F&E
Serbia
F&E
Montenegro
F&E
Malaysia
F&E
Mongolia
South Korea
L85
F&E
Japan
F&E
Japan
F&E
Venezuela
F&E
China
L85
F&E
U.K.
L85
F&E
Malaysia
F&E
U.S.A.
India
Bermuda
Carol Spencer pers. comm. 2010

F&E
F&E
BOC
BPBM
BSKU
BSM
BSMP
BSN
BSNH
BSPG
BSRM
BU
BU
BYU
BZS
CA
CAC-CDMB
CAGC
CAM
CAR
CAS
CAS-GVF
CAS-IU
CAS-SU
CAUSC
CBD
CBF
CBL
CBM
CBS
CBSIZA
CCB
CCML
CECN
CEDO
Bingham Oceanographic Collection, now Yale Peabody Museum (YPM).

Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Department of Zoology, Honolulu, Hawaii
Kochi University, Department of Natural Science, Faculty of Science, Kochi [Includes Usa Marine
Biological Laboratory materials]; also as ZIKU
See BSMP
University of the Philippines, National Institute for Science and Mathematics [formerly
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Science], Manila; also as BSM; evidently destroyed during
World War II
Biological Survey of Nevada
Boston Society of Natural History [now Boston Museum of Science]; extant specimens now at
MCZ.
Bayerische Staatssammlung fr Palontologie und Geologie [Bavarian State Collection for
Paleontology and Geology], Mnchen
Marine Biological Station at Porto Novo, Reference Museum, Annamalai University, India.
Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana; as BUI in Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010; historical fish
collection transferred to UF
Baylor University, Biology Department, Waco, Texas; obsolete, replaced by SMBU
Brigham Young University, Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Provo, Utah; also as MLBM
(fishes)
See BAMZ.
Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, Illinois; also as CHAS
Ichthyological Collection, Corporacin Autnoma Regional para la Defensa de la Meseta de
Bucaramanga (CDMB), Bucaramanga
Carlos Alberto Gonalves da Cruz private collection, deposited at MNRJ.
Central Australian Museum, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Carlos A. Ardila Rodrguez Coleccin, Barranquilla, Atlantico
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California; also as CAS-GVF, CAS-IU, CAS-SU
CAS specimens received from George Vanderbilt Foundation
CAS specimens received from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
CAS specimens received from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Cincias Agrarias, Florianpolis, Santa
Catarina
Collezione Ittiologica Balma-Delmastro [G.A.C Balma & G. B. Delmastro Private Collection],
Torino
Coleccin Boliviana de Fauna, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Instituto de Ecologa,
Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Bolivia, La Paz; also as CFB
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, Solomons, Maryland; obsolete for
fishes, specimens transferred to VIMS
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba; also as CMNH
See CBSIZA.
Caspian Biological Station, Institute of Zoology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku;
also as CBS
Central College, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Bangalore University [includes
Central Inland Fisheries Tank Fisheries Unit], Bangalore
Coleccin Ictiologica, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna,
Tenerife, Canary Islands.
Centro de Estudios de Ciencias Naturales; herp collection housed at MNHN, Montevideo, since ca.
1996 (specimens re-numbered, but retain original CECN numbers too); also as CECN-A
(amphibians) & CECN-R (reptiles)
Centro Educativo Don Orione, Departamento de Biologia, Montevideo; collection apparently
closed, disposition of specimens unknown
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
L85 L&G
F&E
F&E
Japan
L85
F&E
Philippines
Nguyen et al. 2009
Philippines
F&E Ferraris 2007
U.S.A.
Gilbert 1998
U.S.A.
F&E
Germany
Arratia & Schultze 1990
India
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E Gilbert 2009
U.S.A.
F&E Echelle & Echelle 1978
U.S.A.
L85
Bermuda
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
Colombia
Brazil
Australia
Colombia
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Brazil
F&E Houston et al. 2010
F&E
L85
L85
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E Netto-Ferreira et al. 2011
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
L85
Italy
F&E
Bolivia
F&E Khler & Gsten 2007
U.S.A.
Eric Hilton & Chip Cotton pers. comm. 2010
Japan
Azerbaijan
F&E
F&E
Azerbaijan
F&E
India
L85
Spain
F&E
Uruguay
Uruguay
F&E
Ral Maneyro pers. comm. 2012

L85
Gudynas et al. 1988:7, Ral Maneyro &

Francisco Kolenc pers. comm. 2012
CEMBP
Pakistan
CFBH
CHAS
ChM
CHMLPA
Center of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Iolgicas [spelling of "Iolgicas" correct, derived from Greek
word for venom; institution founded by Avelino Barrio in Buenos Aires; collection (herps,
including types) closed in 1979 & moved to MACN (F. Kolenc pers. comm. 2012)
Centro Nacional Patagnico, Puerto Madryn, Chubut
Centre d'Etude Pches, Fort Lamy [formerly Centre O.R.S.T.O.M. de Fort Lamy]
See CIAD.
Collection de l'cole technique (Realschule) de Cologne, Kln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Coleccin "Flix de Azara", del Programa de Biologa Bsica, Corrientes; herps now housed at
MACN
Celio F.B. Haddad Amphibian collection, Rio Claro, So Paulo
Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, Illinois; also as CA
Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina; previously as CHM, but ChM preferred
See MLP.
CHUNAM
Coleccin Herpetolgica de la Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Posadas; see also LGE
Argentina
CHUNB
CI
CI-FML
Coleo Herpetolgica da Universidade de Braslia, Braslia

See CICIMAR.
See FML.
Brazil
Mexico
Argentina
CI-UABC
See UABC.
Mexico
CENAI
CENPAT
CEPFL
CES
CETC
CFA
CIMAR
CIP
CIPA
CIPBV
CIRA-UTB
CIRUV
Coleo Ictiolgica, Departmento de Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do

Esprito Santo
Coleccin Ictiolgica de la Amazonia Colombiana, Instituto Amaznico de investigaciones
Cientficas (SINCHI)
Centro de Investigacin en Alimentacin y Desarrollo, A.C., Hermosillo, Sonora; current for
fishes; also as CES (herps).
See CIBM.
Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Academia Sinica], Chengdu,
Sichuan; also as ZS (herps)
Centro de Investigaciones Biolgicas del Noroeste, S.C. (CIBNOR), La Paz, Baja California Sur
Museo Naturalstico, Antropolgico e Histrico "Jorge Gerhold", Ingeniero Jacobacci, Ro Negro
Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politcnico Nacional, La Paz, Baja
California Sur; also as CI (Coleccin Ictiolgica del CICIMAR), CICIMAR-CI (for non-ictioplancton
vs. CICIMAR for ictioplancton)
Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigacin para el Desarrollo Integral Regional (CIIDIR), Unidad
Durango, IPN, Durango
Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Valparaso, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar, Valparaiso
Centro de Investigaciones Pesqueras, Cartagena
Centro de Investigation y Preservationde de la Amazonia of the University of Cobija
Centro de Investigaciones Pesqueras "Bella Vista", Bella Vista, Corrientes
Centro de Investigacation de Recursos Aquaticos de la Universidad del Beni, Trinidad
See UV.
CIUA
Coleccin de Ictiologa del Instituto de Biologa de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medelln
CI-UFES
CIACOL
CIAD
CIB
CIB
CIBM
CIC
CICIMAR
CIIDIR-DGO
CIUFES
CIZ
Coleo Ictiolgica, Departmento de Ecologia e Recursos Naturalis, Universidade Federal do

Esprito Santo
Centro de Investigaciones Zoolgicas, Departamento de Ciencias Ecolgicas, Facultad de
Ciencias, Universidad de Chile
L85
F&E
Cabrera & Colantonio 2001:115, Kolenc et al.
2011:514, Cspedez 2003, Francisco Kolenc
pers. comm. 2012
Azpelicueta & Cione 2011
Argentina
Argentina
Chad
Mexico
Germany
F&E
Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992
Jay Savage pers. comm. 2010
Argentina
Cspedez 2003
Brazil
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Argentina
Ferreira et al. 2010

Taggart et al. 2006
Albert E. Sanders pers. comm. 2010
Gudynas et al. 1988:7
Maneyro et al. 2008, Diego Baldo pers. comm.
2012
Guarino R. Colli pers. comm. 2010
Castro-Aguirre et al. 2002
L85
F&E
http://www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/catalo
go_autoridades/autorescolectorescolecciones/In
stituciones_Colecciones.xls
Brazil
F&E
Colombia
Roa-Fuentes et al. 2010
Mexico
F&E
Mexico
China
L85
van der Heiden & Plascencia Gonzlez 2005

Castro-Aguirre et al. 2002
F&E Nguyen et al. 2009
Mexico
Argentina
F&E
Mexico
F&E Ruiz-Campos & Castro-Aguirre 2002
Mexico
Chile
Colombia
Bolivia
Argentina
Bolivia
Colombia

L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
Agudelo-Zamora et al. 2009; Donald Taphorn
pers. comm. 2010
Colombia
Brazil
F&E
Chile
F&E
CM
CMA
CMC
CMFRI
CMIZASDPRK
CMK
CMNFI
CMNH
CMNH
CMNH
CMS
CNAR
CNHM
CNHM
CNHM
CNP-IBUNAM
CNPE-IBUNAM
CNRO
CNU
CNUC
CNUCK
COHERP-UAG
CP-UCO
CPDOL
CPN
CPS
CPUC
CPUCLA
CPUM
CPZM
CRCM
CRES
CRH
CRHU
CRRHA
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; current for herps and fossils,
fishes transferred mostly to FMNH & CAS (circa 1952); also as CMNH (obsolete)
M. Arunachaklam Personal Collection
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
See FMRI.
Custody Museum, Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences, Pyongyang
Maurice Kottelat Personal Collection, Cornol; See also ZSM/CMK.
Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection, Ottawa; also as NMC, National Museums of Canada;
Includes VMMB collection
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba; also as CBM
See CM.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology, Cleveland, Ohio
National Museum, Colombo; See NMSL.
Coleccin Nacional de Anfibios y Reptiles [formerly Instituto de Biologa, Universidad Nacional
Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM), Departamento de Zoologa], Mexico City; also as IBH (obsolete for
herps).
Chicago Natural History Museum; obsolete, replaced by FMNH
See BMAM.
Croatian Natural History Museum [Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej], Zoology Department, Zagreb
See CNPE-IBUNAM.
Coleccin Nacional de Peces, Instituto de Biologa, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico
(UNAM), Mexico City; IBUNAM currently used to catalog fishes, but CNPE-IBUNAM preferred for
citation of fishes in publications; also as CNP-IBUNAM, UNAM, UNAM-CNP, UNAM-CNPE (all
obsolete for fishes)
Centre National de Recherches Oceanographiques, Nosy-Be [=Nossi-b]
Division of Biological Science, College of Natural Science, Chonbuk National University, Chonju;
also as CNUC, CUBK, CNUCK
See CNU.
See CNU
U.S.A.
India
New Zealand
India
North Korea
Switzerland
L85
L85
Canada
Japan
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Sri Lanka
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
Imamura 2011
Taggart et al. 2006
L85
F&E
F&E
Mexico
Oscar Flores-Villela pers. comm. 2010
U.S.A.
China
Croatia
Mexico
John Clay Bruner pers. comm. 2010

Nguyen et al. 2009
F&E
F&E
Mexico
Madagascar
Hctor Espinosa Prez pers. comm. 2010

L85
F&E
South Korea
F&E
South Korea
South Korea
F&E
F&E
Colombia
Jaramillo-Villa et al. 2008
Brazil
Nunes & Piorski 2009
Germany
Coleccin Herpetolgica, Universidad Autnoma de Guadalajara (UAG), Guadalajara, Jalisco; also

Mexico
as UAG.
Coleccin de Peces Universidad Catlica de Oriente, Rionegro, Antioquia
Coleo de Peixes do Departamento de Oceanografia e Limnologia, Universidade Federal do
Maranho, Chapadinha, Maranho; also as CPDOL (UFMA).
Collection du Prince de Neuwied [A.P. Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied], Wied [Hausen], RheinlandPfalz; herps now at AMNH
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Colecciones Paleontolgicas, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Concepcin,
Concepcin
Coleccin Regional de Peces, Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA),
Barquisimeto, Lara
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicols de Hidalgo, Facultad de Biologia, Laboratory de Biologia
Acutica, Morelia, Michoacn; current for fishes; also as UMSNH (herps)
Croatian People's Zoological Museum, Zagreb; See HZM.
Charles R. Conner Museum, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
See VNUH.
Centre de Recherche en Hydrobiologie, Uvira [formerly country of Zaire]; Also as CRHU.
See CRH.
Centre Rgional de Recherches en Hydrobiologie Applique, Bujumbura; existed 1992-1995,
sponsored by Belgian Government
Stephen P. Rogers & Amy Henrici pers. comm.

2010
U.S.A.
L85
Chile
Azpelicueta & Rubilar 1998; Ferraris 2007
Venezuela
Donald Taphorn & Douglas Rodrguez Olarte

pers. comm. 2010
Mexico
Croatia
U.S.A.
Vietnam
Congo (DRC)
Congo (DRC)
Burundi
F&E Domnguez-Domnguez et al. 2009

L85
L85
F&E
Nguyen et al. 2009
F&E
F&E
F&E
CRS/ZSI
CSBD
CSF
CSI
CSIRO
CSJ
CSLB
CSPU
CSTC
CSU
CSULB
CU
CU-RY
CUB
CUB MZ
CUBK
CUMV
CUMZ
CUP
CUP
CUSC
CUZM
CW-C
CWS
CZCEN
CZUT-IC
DATM
DAVK
DBCUCH
DBFFEUCS
DBGUCH
DBSCNU
DDUGU
DFI
DFV
Central Regional Station, Marine Biological Station, Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur, Madhya
Pradesh
See UG/CSBD
California State University, Fullerton, California
Civica Stazione Idrobiologica, Milano
Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Marine & Atmospheric
Research, Hobart, Tasmania; formerly Division of Fisheries & Oceanography at Cronulla, NSW;
includes specimens from Marine Lab, Sydney
Colegio de San Jose, Museo de Historia Natural, Medellin
California State University, Long Beach, California; See CSULB
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
Colorado State Teachers College, Greeley, California
Colorado State University, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Fort Collins,
Colorado; obsolete for fishes, specimens distributed to various regional museums in 1980s-90s;
see also LFL
California State University, Long Beach, California.
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, New York; also as CUMV
Comenius University, Ichthyological collection of the Faculty of Sciences, Bratislava
Chulalongkorn University, Museum of Zoology, Bangkok; also as CUB MZ, CUMZ, CUZM
See CUB.
See CNU.
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, New York; also as CU
See CUB.
Catholic University Peking; fossil herps incorporated into FMNH PR, Fossil Amphibians and
Reptiles
Charles University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Division of Hydrobiology and Ichthyology,
Prague; also as ZICU, ZICUP
Clemson University, Department of Biological Sciences, Vertebrate Collections, Clemson, South
Carolina
See CUB.
Collection of Alexandre Westphal-Castelnau de cole Nationale Suprieure dAgronomie de
Montpellier, Montpellier, Hrault; herps now at MNHN (Paris)
Central Washington State College, Department of Biology, Ellensburg, Washington
Coleccin Zoolgica de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de
Asuncin
Coleccin Zoolgica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del Tolima, Ictiologia, Ibagu, Tolima
Dayton Museum of Natural History, Dayton, Ohio
DAV College, Zoology Department, Museum, Kanpur
Departamento de Biologa Celular y Gentica de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago; also as
DBGUCH
Departamento de Biologa, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago; Probably the
same as DBCUCH, DBGUCH
Departamento de Biologa Celular y Gentica de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago; also as
DBCUCH
South China Normal University, College of Life Science, Department of Biology, Guangzhou; also
as SCNU; Same institution as SCSFRI, but separate collection.
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology,
Zoological Museum, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
Dalian Fisheries Institute [Liaoning Marine Fisheries Research Institute], Dalian Maritime
University, Dalian, Liaoning
Division of Fisheries, Department of Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientiane
India
F&E
Guyana
U.S.A.
Italy
L85
L85
Australia
L85
Colombia
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
L85
L85
L85
L85
U.S.A.
L85
F&E Darrel E. Snyder pers. comm. 2010
L85
F&E
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Slovakia
Thailand
Thailand
South Korea
U.S.A.
Thailand
Wake & Donnelly 2010
L85
F&E
Holk & Hensel 1974

David et al. 2007
F&E
Williams et al. 2007
F&E
China
Czech Republic
L85
U.S.A.
L85 L&G
F&E
Thailand
Nguyen et al. 2009
France
U.S.A.

L85
Paraguay
F&E
Colombia
U.S.A.
India
L85
Chile
L85
Chile
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
Chile
Correa et al. 2008
China
F&E
India
F&E
China
F&E
Laos
F&E
DGFSSEDUE
DGM
DGPM
DHE
DHFRI
Direccin General de Fauna Silvestre Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecologa, Coyoacn,

Mexico City; no longer extant, herps transferred to CNAR.
Paleontological collection of the Setor de Paleontologia, Departamento Nacional de Produo
Mineral, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Direction Generale des Peches Maritimes, Ministere de l'Industrie et du Commerce, Quebec,
Quebec
Mexico
Oscar Flores-Villela pers. comm. 2010
Brazil
Ferraris 2007
Canada
L85
Diversidad de los Humedales del Este [collection originating with Programa para la Conservacion
de la Biodiversidad y Desarrollo Sustentable de los Baados del Este (PROBIDES) & United
Uruguay
Nations Development Programme]; amphibians currently housed at ZVC (specimens renumbered, but retain original DHE numbers too); also as DHE-A (amphibians) & DHE-R (reptiles)
Dong Hai Fishery Research Institute, Dong Hai, Bac Lieu

Department of Hydrobiology and Ichthyology, Faculty of Biology, St. Clement of Ohrid University
of Sofia [Sofia University], Sofia; also as BFSU
Department of Harbours & Marine, Brisbane, Queensland; Collection transferred to Queensland
Museum (QM)
Estacin Biolgica de Rancho Grande "Dr. Alberto Fernndez Ypez" , Facultad de Agronomia,
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Durban Museum and Art Gallery, Durban
Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas, Texas
Fitzsimons' Snake Park, Durban
Duke University, Vertebrate Collection, Durham, North Carolina; also as DUF or DU F (fishes)
mostly at ANSP, some recataloged with ANSP numbers
Dicle University [Dicle niversitesi], Zoological Museum, Zoology Branch, Department of Biology,
Faculty of Science and Letters, Diyarbakir
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Tng-Hop [=Dai hoc Tng-Hop, old Vietnamese
name for University of Hanoi, now National University, Hanoi], Hanoi; used for fishes, but see
VNUH for more accurate representation of collection
See LZUT.
Instituto de Zootecnica, Secretaria da Agricultura [formerly Departmento de Zoologia, Museu
Paulista], So Paulo; transferred to MZUSP
Departmento de Zoologia e Botnica, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Jlio de Mesquita Filho",
Campus de So Jose do Rio Preto, So Paulo
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Cincias Biolgicas, Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
See UFRGS.
Departamento de Zoologia, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de La Habana,
Habana
Departamento Zoologa Vertebrados, Universidad de la Repblica [listed as Universidad de
Uruguay in Leviton et al. 1985:805], Montevideo; considered obsolete, replaced by ZVC
East African Marine Fisheries Research Organization [transferred to Institute of Marine Sciences,
Zanzibar Branch, University of Dar-es-Salaam (1978-)], Zanzibar
Eidgenssische Anstalt fr Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewsserschutz [Swiss
Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology], Kastanienbaum
Estacin de Biologa Marina de Montemar, Universidad de Valparaso [formerly Chile], Via del
Mar, Valparaso
Vietnam
F&E
Bulgaria
F&E
EBMP-INP
See INIBP.
Mexico
EBMTV
EBRG
Estacin de Biologa Marina, Instituto Tecnolgico de Veracruz (ITV).

Estacion Biologia de Rancho Grande, Museo, Maracay
Mexico
Venezuela
DHISUB
DHMB
DISCA
DM
DMNH
DSP
DU
DUM
DVZUT
DZAUT
DZSASP
DZSJRP
DZUFMG
DZUFRGS
DZUH
DZVU
EAMFRO
EAWAG
EBMC
Australia
L85
Venezuela
F&E
F&E
South Africa
U.S.A.
South Africa
L85
L85
L85
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
Turkey
F&E
Vietnam
F&E
Greece
F&E
Brazil
F&E Ferraris 2007
Brazil
F&E
Brazil
F&E
Brazil
F&E Luiz Malabarba pers. comm. 2010
Cuba
F&E
Uruguay
L85
Tanzania
F&E
Watanabe et al. 2002; Ferraris 2007; Truong

Nguyen pers. comm. 2010
Cabrera & Colantonio 2001:115; Ral Maneyro

& Francisco Kolenc pers. comm. 2012
F&E
Switzerland
L85 L&G
F&E
Chile
L85
F&E
F&E
L85
Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992; Daza et al.

2009
EBUAP
Escuela de Biologa, Benemrita Universidad Autnoma de Puebla, Puebla
Mexico
EBUM
ECO-CH
ECO-SC
Universidad Autnoma de Morelos, Escuela de Biologa, Cuernavaca, Morelos

See ECOCH.
See ECOSC.
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Chetumal, Quintana Roo; also as ECO-CH-H
(herps)
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), San Cristbal de Las Casas, Chiapas; also as ECO-SC-P
(fishes), ECO-SC-H (herps); includes herp collection formerly at INIREB (now obsolete)
East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Fishery Science Research Institute, Chinese
Academy of Fishery Science, Shanghai
Mexico
Mexico
Mexico
F&E
Mexico
F&E Roco Rodiles-Hernndez pers. comm. 2010
Mexico
F&E
China
F&E
Estao Experimental de Biologia e Piscicultura de Pirassununga, Centro de Pesquisa e Gesto de

Brazil
Recursos Pesqueiros Continentais, IBAMA, Ministrio do Meio Ambiente, Pirassununga, So Paulo
F&E
ECOCH
ECOSC
ECSFI
EEBP
EI
EIS
EKU
Universidade Federal Rural, Eugenio Izecksohn Amphibian collection, Rio de Janeiro; also as EIUFRRJ
Muse de Salem (Essex Institution), Massachusetts; herps now at MCZ.
Eastern Kentucky University, Department of Biological Sciences, Branley A. Branson Museum of
Zoology, Richmond, Kentucky; in current use; also as EUK (not adopted, obsolete)
Brazil
Rodiles-Hernndez et al. 2005
L85
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
F&E Guenter A. Schuster pers. comm. 2010
EKZNW
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife [formerly Natal Parks Board], Cascades, KwaZulu-Natal; also as NMP/NPB South Africa
F&E
ENCB
See ENCB-IPN; apparently incorrectly associated with UABC by Fricke & Eschmeyer (2010)
Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biolgicas, Instituto Politcnico Nacional, Mexico City; current for
fishes; also as IPN, IPN-ENCB (both obsolete for fishes).
Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mxico
(UNAM), Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico City; herps transferred to CNAR.
Museo Zoolgico de la Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales, Zaragoza, Campus II, Mexico
City
Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
Escuela Politcnica Nacional, Quito
See ZSI/ERS.
Ege niversitesi Su rnleri Fakltesi [alternatively as Inland-water Fish Collections of the
Faculty of Fisheries, Ege University (ESFM-PISI)], Bornova, zmir
East Tennessee Vertebrate Paleontology, Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee State
University, Johnson City, Tennessee; includes skeletons of Recent herps (no fluid material)
Laboratory of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ehime University
See EKU.
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology and Health Services (herps)
Ewha Womens University, Ewha Natural History Museum, Seoul
Frick Collection, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York (paleo)
See GUZ.
[formerly Faculty of Agriculture], Department of Fisheries, School of Agriculture, Kinki University,
Osaka City
Kochi University, Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi, Japan. Specimens now in BSKU.
Faculty of Agriculture [formerly Department of Fisheries (1923-2001)], Kyoto University, Kyoto
[collection housed at Maizuru, not Kyoto]; See also FRSKU
Fisheries Administration of Qujing, Qujing, Yunnan
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Biological Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida
Fisheries Branch, Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries Queensland, Brisbane
Fundacin Cientfica Los Roques, Caracas
F&E
ENCB-IPN
ENEPI
ENEPZ
ENMU
EPN
ERS/ZSI
ESFM
ETVP
EUB
EUK
EUP
EWNHM
F:AM
F/GUZ
FAK
FAKOU
FAKU
FAQ
FAU
FBQ
FCLR
Mexico
Mexico
Ferraris 2007; Oscar Flores-Villela & Roco

Rodiles-Hernndez pers. comm. 2010
L85
Rodiles-Hernndez et al. 2005
Mexico

2009; Oscar Flores-Villela pers. comm. 2010
Mexico
U.S.A.
Ecuador
India
Gilbert 1998
L85
Turkey
F&E
F&E
F&E Kk 2007
U.S.A.
Japan
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
South Korea
U.S.A.
India
Jim I. Mead pers. comm. 2010

F&E
L85
Peter Lindeman pers. comm. 2011
F&E
Gilbert 1998
F&E Ferraris 2007
Japan
F&E
Japan
Japan
China
U.S.A.
Australia
Venezuela
F&E
L85
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
F&E
FCRM
FCSCNU
FCSNU
FDNR
FDU
FESC
FESU
FFR
FFSUC
FLIN
FLMNH
FLSM
FM
FMIB
FML
FMNH
Fisheries College and Research Institute, Museum, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University [formerly Agricultural School; Madras Veterinary College], Thoothukudi [=Tuticorin],
Tamil Nadu
[formerly Fishery College], South China Normal University, College of Life Science, Guangzhou;
now in PRFRI
See PRFRI.
Florida Department of Natural Resources; Also as FSBC
Fudan University, Department of Biology, Shanghai; replacement for FU
See PRFRI.
See ZMFESU
Zoological Museum, Srmene Faculty of Marine Sciences [formerly Faculty of Fisheries],
Karadeniz Technical University, Rize
Faculty of Forestry Sciences [Facultad de Ciencias Forestales], Universidad de Chile,
Ichthyological Collection, Santiago
Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; seen for locality
references in invertebrate paleontology (as FLMNH IP); replaced by UF for fishes & herps
Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Boca del Rio, Isla Margarita
Department of Nature, Fujian Provincial Museum, Fuzhou
See ASIZB.
Fundacin (or Instituto) Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumn, Tucumn; also as CI-FML and IML
(obsolete for fishes); see PVL for fossil fishes
Field Museum of Natural History, Zoology Department, Chicago, Illinois [obsolete as CNHM,
Chicago Natural History Museum]; includes fishes from IU.
India
F&E
China
F&E
China
U.S.A.
China
China
Russia
L85
Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E
Turkey
F&E
Chile
Australia
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
Taggart et al. 2006; Portell et al. 2008 (locality
reference)
U.S.A.
Venezuela
China
China
L85
Argentina
L85
F&E Ferraris 2007
U.S.A.
L85
F&E John Clay Bruner pers. comm. 2010
F&E
F&E
FMNH P
See FMNH PF (fossil fishes) and FMNH PR (fossil amphibians and reptiles).
U.S.A.
Gottfried & Krause 1998; Gilbert 1998; John

Clay Bruner pers. comm. 2010
FMNH PF
Field Museum of Natural History, Geology Department, Paleontology Collections (fossil fishes),
Chicago, Illinois; also as FMNH P (obsolete)
U.S.A.
FMNH PR
Field Museum of Natural History, Geology Department, Paleontology Collections (fossil amphibian
U.S.A.
and reptiles), Chicago, Illinois; also as FMNH P (obsolete); includes fossil herps formerly at CUP.
FMNH UC
FMNH UR
FMRI
FNU
FOSJ
FRCL
FRI
FRIHP
FRLM
FRSKU
FSBC
FSFL
FSFRL
University of Chicago, Walker Museum, Paleontology Collection; Walker Museum incorporated

into FMNH
University of Chicago, Walker Museum, Fossil Amphibian and Reptile Collection; Walker Museum
incorporated into FMNH
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Regional Centre, Mandapam Camp, Tamil Nadu; also
as CMFRI
Nagasaki University, Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki
Fisheries and Oceans Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Region, St. John's, Newfoundland
See BMRI.
Fisheries Research Institute, Glugor, Penang
Fisheries Research Institute, Hunan Province
Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie University, Shima, Mie Prefecture
Kyoto University, Faculty of Agriculture, Fisheries Research Station; See also FAKU
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish & Wildlife Research Institute [formerly
Florida State Board of Conservation Marine Laboratory, among others], St. Petersburg, Florida;
fishes currently cataloged as FSBC F; also as FDNR (obsolete)
See FSFRL.
National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Fisheries Research Agency [formerly Far Seas
Fisheries Research Laboratory (FSFL)], Shimizu city (now Shizuoka city), Shizuoka prefecture;
also as FSFL; fishes transferred to NSMT ca. 2009
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
India
L85 L&G
F&E
Japan
Canada
Malaysia
Malaysia
China
Japan
Japan
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
L85
L85 L&G
L85
U.S.A.
Japan
Japan
F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007; Seishi Kimura pers. comm. 2010
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
F&E K. Matsuura pers. comm. in Ho & Shao 2010
FSIU
FSJF
FSKU
FSM
FSU
FTU
FU
FUE
FUMT
FURG
FWM
GAUBA
GBERL
GBW
GCM
GCRL
GCRLM
GMBL
GMNGZ
GMNH
GMU
GNHM
GNHNA
GNM
GNMG
GOE
Laboratory of Fisheries, Department of Oceanography, College of Natural Science, Inha

University
Fischsammlung Jrg Freyhof private collection, Berlin, Germany
Kitasato University, School of Fisheries Sciences, Iwate Prefecture
See UF.
Florida State University; Transferred to University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History,
Gainesville; also as UF-FSU.
Florida Technological University, Orlando, Florida
Fudan University, Fujian; obsolete herein because Fudan University is in Shanghai, not Fujian as
listed in Leviton et al. (1985); replaced by FDU
Fukada University of Education
University of Tokyo, Department of Fisheries, University Museum [formerly University Storage
Center for Research Materials (1966-1997)], Tokyo
Fundao Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Departamento de Oceanografia, Rio Grande, Rio
Grande do Sul
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth, Texas
Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze, Florida
Geologische Bundesanstalt [Geological Survey of Austria], Wien [Vienna] (paleo fish)
Government College University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Zoology,
Lahore
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, The University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs,
Mississippi; also as GCRLM; Some specimens moved to USM
See GCRL.
Grice Marine Biological Laboratory [also as Grice Marine Laboratory], Charleston, South Carolina
Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries, Natural History/Zoology, Glasgow, Scotland; attributed to
University of Glasgow, Hunterian Museum in Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010
Georgia Museum of Natural History, D.S. Scott Ichthyology Collection, Natural History Building,
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
George Mason University, Vertebrate Collection
See GNM.
Gallery of Natural History and Native Art, Medlow Bath, New South Wales
Gteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum, Gteborg; replaces NHMG (sensu Leviton et al. 1985), also
as GNHM, NMG
Grenada National Museum [formerly Museum of Georgetown], St. George's [formerly
Georgetown]
Institut und Museum fr Geologie und Palontologie, Georg-August Universitt, Gttingen; also
as GPI
South Korea
Germany
Japan
U.S.A.
F&E Gilbert 1998
U.S.A.
L85
China
L85
Taiwan
L&G
Japan
L85
Brazil
L85
U.S.A.
Australia
U.S.A.
Austria
L85
L85
L85
Pakistan
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
F&E William D. Anderson, Jr. pers. comm. 2010
U.K.
L85
F&E
F&E
Ferraris 2007
U.S.A.
F&E Williams et al. 2007
U.S.A.
Sweden
Australia
L&G
Sweden
L&G

F&E
Grenada
F&E
F&E
Germany

See GOE
Germany
GRIF
GSA
GSJ
GUMF
Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland

Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Geological Society of Japan
Guwahati University Museum of Fish
Gauhati University, Department of Zoology, Fish Biology and Fishery Science Laboratory,
Guwahati, Assam; also as F/GUZ
George Vanderbilt Foundation. Specimens now at CAS.
Fisheries Institute of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
See UG/CSBD
College of Fishery, Huazhong Agriculture Collection, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan
Hafrannsknastofnunin [Icelandic Marine Research Institute], Reykjavik
Australia
U.S.A.
Japan
India
GVF
GXIF
HA
HACW
HAF
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
U.S.A.
GPI
GUZ
F&E
L85
Gilbert 1998
Watanabe & Uyeno 1999; Ferraris 2007
F&E
India
F&E
U.S.A.
China
Guyana
China
Iceland
F&E
F&E
Noonan & Bonett 2003
F&E
F&E
HBOM
HCMR
HEL
HKFRS
HLM
HLMD
HMG
HML
HNHM
HNUV
HRA
HSU
HSUVM
HUE
HUIC
HUJ
HUMZ
HVMSH
HZM
IAA
IABHU
IADIZA
IAMC-CMR
IARM
IAVH
IB
IBA
IBAB
IBAUNC
IBH
IBMC
IBRP
IBSD
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Museum, Ft. Pierce, Florida

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Athens
Hel Marine Laboratory [now Station], Gdask University, Hel; also as HML
Hong Kong Fisheries Research Station [formerly with University of Hong Kong, Department of
Zoology (1952-1960)], Aberdeen, Hong Kong
Holophusikon, Leverian Museum (1775-1786), London, England; collection auctioned in 1806
and purchased by several museums, including NMW
U.S.A.
Greece
Poland
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Hessen
Germany
Haslar Medical Museum, Royal Naval Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire, England; Collections
transfered to BMNH
Hel Marine Station [formerly Laboratory], University of Gdask [Stacja Morska Instytutu
Oceanografii Uniwersytetu Gdaskiego], Hel; also as HEL
Hungarian Natural History Museum [=Magyar Termszettudomnyi Mzeum]; formerly part of
the Hungarian National Museum or Magyar Nemzeti Mzeum [also as Musei Nationalis
Hungarici/Muse National Hongrois (MNH)], Budapest; also as MNH, MNSB (both obsolete)
See VNUH.
Heilongtan Reservoir Administration, Shilin County, Yunnan; also as RHLCY, RHS, HRSC
Humboldt State University, Arcata, California; current for fishes, herps separate as HSUVM
Humboldt State University Vertebrate Museum, Arcata, California; current for herps, fishes
separate as HSU
Hanoi [National] University of Education, Museum of Biology, Hanoi; small collection of fishes
and herps deposited separately from VNUH
Hacettepe niversitesi [University], Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ichthyological
Collection, Ankara
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Zoological
Museum, Jerusalem; also as HUJF
Hokkaido University, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, The Hokkaido University
Museum, Hakodate, Hokkaido
Heda Shipbuilding Local Data/Bottom Feeder Museum, Heda [merged with Numazu], Shizuoka
Croatian Natural History Museum [Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej; formerly Croatian People's
Zoological Museum], Zoology Department, Zagreb; also as CPZM
Direccin Nacional del Antrtico, Instituto Antrctico Argentino, Museo, Buenos Aires
Institute for Amphibian Biology, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima; see also
ZIHU.
Instituto Argentino de Investigacin de Zonas rides, Mendoza
Istituto per lo Studio degli Ambienti Marini Costieri di Taranto, Taranto
Vivario del Museo de Ciencias Naturales e Histricas del Instituto Ruiz de Montoya, Posadas
Instituto de Investigacin de Recursos Biolgicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva,
Boyac; also as IAvH-P (fishes)
See IBSP.
See IBAUNC.
Instituto de Biologia Aplicada, Facultad de Biologa, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona
Instituto de Biologa Animal, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Medoza; also as IBA, IBA-UNC
See CNAR.
Instituto de Biologia Marina, Mar del Plata
Institute for Breeding Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo
Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Science and Technology,
Government of India, Takyelpat, Imphal, Manipur
China
F&E
F&E
http://www.asih.org/codons.pdf
L85
U.K.
F&E
F&E
Kammerer et al. 2005; Khler & Gsten 2007;
Nguyen et al. 2009
U.K.
F&E
Poland
F&E
Balazs Farkas pers. comm. 2010;
http://actazool.nhmus.hu/
Hungary
Vietnam
China
U.S.A.
Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E
L85
John Reiss pers. comm. 2010
U.S.A.
John Reiss pers. comm. 2010
Vietnam
Nguyen et al. 2009; Truong Nguyen pers.

comm. 2010
Turkey
F&E
Israel
L85
F&E
Japan
L85
F&E
Japan
F&E
Croatia
F&E
Argentina
F&E
Japan
Masayuki Sumida pers. comm. 2010
Argentina
Italy
Argentina
F&E
F&E
Cabrera & Colantonio 2001:115
Colombia
Brazil
Argentina
Spain
Argentina
Mexico
Argentina
Japan
India
http://www.shizutoucb.jp/english/town/numazu.html
F&E
L85
L85
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992
F&E
F&E
IBSP
IBTS
IBUNAM
IBUT
ICM
ICMN
ICN
ICN-MHN
ICNMHN
ICNMNH
ICP
IDSM
IEBR
IEOV
IEPA
IFAN
IFI
IFP
IFREMER
IHASW
IHB
IHCAS
IHN
IIBP
IIPB
ILLPA
ILPLA
IMA
IMARPE
IMCN
IMECBIO
IML
IMNH
INALI
INCDSB
IND
Instituto Butantan, Herpetological collection Alphonse Richard Hoge, So Paulo, So Paulo; also
as IB; destroyed by fire in 2010
See ISBB.
See CNPE-IBUNAM.
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Honshu
See IIPB.
Misspelling in de Santana & Maldonado-Ocampo (2005:224); correct as IMCN
See ICNMHN.
See ICNMHN.
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad
Nacional de Colombia, Bogot; Also as ICNMNH (obsolete), ICN-MHN and ICN
Obsolete, replaced by ICNMHN
Instituto Clodomiro Picado, University of Costa Rica, San Jos
Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustenavel, Mamiraua, Tef
Brazil
Romania
Mexico
Japan
Spain
Colombia
Colombia
Colombia

L85
L&G
F&E
F&E de Santana & Maldonado-Ocampo 2005
Londoo-Burbano et al. 2011
F&E
Colombia
Colombia
Costa Rica
Brazil
F&E Holk & Hensel 1974

F&E Castro-Aguirre et al. 2002
L&G
L85 L&G
F&E Ferraris 2007

F&E
Daza et al. 2009
de Santana & Vari 2010
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Vietnam
(VAST) [formerly National Center for Natural Science and Technology (NCST) of Vietnam], Hanoi
Instituto Espaol de Oceanografa, Vigo
Instituto de Pesquisas Cientificas e Technolgicas, Estado do Amap, Macap
Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire [formerly Institut Franais d'Afrique Noire (-1960)], Dakar
Imperial Fisheries Institute, Tokyo University of Fisheries, Tokyo [now Tokyo University of Marine
Science and Technology (MTUF)]; collection now at MTUF
Integrated Fisheries Project, Museum of Marine Resources [formerly Museum Ocean Laboratory],
Government of India, Kochi, Kerala
Institut Franais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer; fish types moved to MNHN (Paris)
and La Rochelle.
Museum of Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Academia Sinica], Wuhan,
Hubei; also as IHB, IHCAS
See IHASW.
See IHASW. Museum of Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei
Instituto de Historia Natural de Chiapas [formerly Museo de Zoologa de Tuxtla Gutirrez
(MZTG)], Tuxtla Gutirrez, Chiapas; also as MZTG (obsolete)
Instituto de Investigacin Biolgica del Paraguay, Asuncin; includes herps from Coleccin
Biolgica Arnoldo de Winkelried Bertoni
Instituto de Ciencias del Mar [formerly Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras], Departament de
Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Barcelona; also as ICM
See ILPLA.
Instituto de Limnologa "Dr. Ral A. Ringuelet", La Plata; distinct from MLP; also as ILLPA
Institute of Marine Affairs, Chaguaramas, Trinidad
Instituto del Mar del Per, Lima
Museo de Ciencias, Instituto para la Investigacin y Preservacin del Patrimonio Cultural y
Natural del Valle del Cauca, Cali; incorrectly as ICMN
Coleccin de Vertebrados, Instituto Manantln de Ecologa y Conservacin de la Biodiversidad
[formerly as Coleccin Zoolgica del Laboratorio Natural Las Joyas de la Sierra de Manantln],
Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco; also as LNLJ (apparently obsolete)
Instituto Miguel Lillo de Tucumn; obsolete for fishes, replaced by FML
Iceland Museum of Natural History, Reykjavik; See also NHMI
Instituto Nacional de Limnologa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santo Tom
Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Stiinte Biologice, Bucuresti [= Bucharest]
Laboratoria de Fauna, Division de Fauna Terrestre, Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales
Renovables y del Ambiente, Bogot
Spain
Brazil
Senegal
Kuch et al. 2005; Bain et al. 2009; Nguyen et

al. 2009; Rsler et al. 2010
F&E
F&E
L85
Japan
F&E
India
F&E
France
F&E
China
F&E Ferraris 2007
China
China
F&E
F&E
Mexico
Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992; Nieto-Montes

de Oca 2003
Paraguay
Kolenc et al. 2011:514
Spain
Argentina
Argentina
Trinidad & Tobago
Peru
L&G
Gudynas et al. 1988:7

L85
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
Colombia
F&E
Ringuelet et al. 1967
F&E http://www.asih.org/codons.pdf
F&E
http://www.dbioro.eu/
Mexico
Argentina
Iceland
Argentina
Romania
Colombia
F&E
L&G
INHS
INIBP
INIDEP
INIP
INIREB
INP
INPA
INSM
Illinois Natural History Survey [descended in part from Illinois State Laboratory of Natural
History], University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Instituto Nacional de la Pesca [formerly Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Biolgico
Pesqueras], Colonia Santa Cruz Atoyac, Mexico City; also as EBMP-INP, INP.
Instituto Nacional de Investigacin y Desarrollo Pesquero, Secretara de Agricultura, Ganadera,
Pesca y Alimentos del Ministerio de Economa y Produccin, Mar del Plata
Instituto Nacional de Investigaao das Pescas e do Mar, Algs, Lisboa; also as IPIMAR
U.S.A.
L85
Mexico
F&E
Argentina
Portugal
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992; Oscar FloresVillela & Roco Rodiles-Hernndez pers. comm.
2010
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones En Recursos Biticos, Xalapa [=Jalapa], Veracruz; obsolete,

Mexico
herp collection transferred to ECOSC.
See INIBP.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amaznia, Manaus, Amazonas
Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis; current for herps and paleo
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras "Jos Benito Vives de Andris", Punta Betn,
Santa Marta
Instituto Oceanogrfico [formerly Instituto Paulista de Oceanografia], Universidade de So Paulo,
Brazil
Institute of Oceanographic & Fisheries Research, Athens
See IORAS.
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [formerly Nanhai Oceanographic
Institute], Qingdao; formerly ASIO, also as NOI
Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Instituto de Oceanologa, Habana
See IORAS.
Izu Oceanic Park Museum, Izu; also as IOPM; Collection moved to KPM-NI in 2005
Izu Oceanic Park Museum; also as IOP; Collection moved to KPM-NI in 2005
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split
See IORAS.
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Also as IOAN, IOM,
IORAN, PPSIO (all apparently obsolete for fishes except possibly IORAN)
Tokai University Institute of Oceanic Research and Development, Shimizu; Includes Okada
Collection
Instiute of Oceanographic Sciences, Godalming, England; Also as IOSDL, both newly represented
by NOCS (sensu Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010)
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, Godalming, England [Kottelat et al.
1993 may have cited as IOSBL]
Mexico
Brazil
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
F&E
Colombia
L85
F&E
U.K.
IOZCAS
See ASIZB.
China
Watanabe et al. 2002; Zhang et al. 2002; Bain

et al. 2009
IPMB
See BMRI.
Instituto Politcnico Nacional, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologcas, Mexico City; also as IPNM,
IPN-ENCB (both obsolete for fishes); also as ENCB-IPN (current for fishes)
See ENCB-IPN.
See IPN.
Fisheries Research Institute Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak
Iraq Natural History Museum, Waziriya, Baghdad
Indian River Coastal Zone Museum, Harbor Branch Foundation, Fort Pierce, Florida
Institut de Recherche en cologie Tropical, CENAREST, Libreville
See IRSNB.
Institut de Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar (1946-1957), Antananarivo [=Tananarive or
Tana]; fishes mostly transferred to MNHN (Paris)
Malaysia
INVEMAR
IO
IOAKE
IOAN
IOC
IOCAS
IOH
IOM
IOP
IOPM
IOR
IORAN
IORAS
IORD
IOS
IOSDL
IPN
IPN-ENCB
IPNM
IPPS
IRAQ
IRCZM
IRET
IRSCNB
IRSM
Michael S. Finkler pers. comm. 2011
Brazil
Greece
Russia
Brazil
F&E
L85
L85
L85
China
Cuba
Russia
Japan
Japan
Croatia
Russia
F&E
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
Russia
Borodulina 2008
Japan
L85
F&E
U.K.
L85
F&E
Mexico
Mexico
Mexico
Malaysia
Iraq
U.S.A.
Gabon
Belgium
Madagascar
F&E
L85
F&E Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992

Lyons & Mercado-Silva 2004
F&E
F&E
L85
L85
F&E
de Santana & Vari 2010
F&E
IUQ
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles [=Brussels]; Replacement for ISBN,
ISNB, ISNM; also as IRScNB
Institutul de Stiinte Biologice, Bucuresti [formerly Institutul de Biologie Traian Svulescu
(IBTS), now Institutul de Biologie Bucuresti al Academiei Romne], Bucuresti [=Bucharest]; also
as IBTS
See IRSNB.
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Institutul Speologie "Emil G. Racovita", Bucuresti [=Bucharest]; fishes presumably transferred to
ISBB.
Johann Heinrich von Thnen-Institut (vTI), Bundesforschungsinstitut fr Lndliche Rume, Wald
und Fischerei, Institut fr Seefischerei, Hamburg; collection now recataloged at ZMH
Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History [preceded Illinois Natural History Survey]; extant
material recataloged at INHS with ISLNH accession numbers cited in Sabaj et al. 1997
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
See IRSNB.
See IRSNB.
Institut Franais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) [formerly Institut
Scientifique et Technique des Pches Maritimes (1918-1984)], Nantes
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois; previously and currently used for birds (Bohlen 1978,
ORNIS) and mammals (Hoffmeister 1989, Hafner et al. 1997), but ISUC current for herps and
fishes
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana; see also ISUVC.
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; also as ISC (obsolete)
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois; current for herps and fishes (see also ISU, current for
birds and mammals only)
Indiana State University Vertebrates Collection, Terre Haute, Indiana; previously used for
mammals (Hafner et al. 1997), but ISU assigned for fishes and herps by Leviton et al. (1985)
See ZMB.
Instituto Tecnolgico Agropecuario de Hidalgo, Huejutla de Reyes, Hidalgo
Institute of Tropical Biology, Museum of Zoology, Ho Chi Minh City
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; fishes now primarily at CAS-IU, UMMZ and USNM; also
as MUI
Laboratorio de Ictiologa, Departamento de Biologa, Universidad del Quindo, Armenia
IUSHM
Istanbul niversitesi [University of Istanbul], Faculty of Science, Hydrobiology Museum, Istanbul Turkey
IRSNB
ISBB
ISBN
ISC
ISER
ISH
ISLNH
ISM
ISNB
ISNM
ISTPM
ISU
ISU
ISUA
ISUC
ISUVC
ISZZ
ITAH
ITBMZ
IU
IZA
IZAB
IZAC
IZPAN
IZUA
IZUC
IZUCS
IZUG
JFBM
JM
JNMP
JNU
Instituto di Zoologia, Universit degli Studi dell'Aquila, Aquila; Moved to Naples University,
Department of Zoology (Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010)
Institute of Zoology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku; also as ZIAZ, IZA
Instituto de Zoologa, Academia de Ciencias Repblica de Cuba, Habana
Muzeum I Instytut Zoologii (formerly Instytut Zoologiczny), Polska Akademia Nauk, Warsaw
Instituto de Zoologa Ernst F. Filian, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile (Campus
Isla Teja), Valdivia
Instituto de Zoologa, Universidad de Concepcin, Concepcin; apparently obsolete, replaced by
MZUC (Concepcin)
Collezioni Zoologiche (formerly Instituto di Zoologia), Universit di Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia
Instituto Zoologia dell'Universit di Genova, Luguria
[James Ford] Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jura-Museum Eichsttt [Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns], Willibaldsburg,
Eichsttt; also as SoS
Nrodni Museum, Natural History Museum, Praha; also as NMP
Department of Biology, Jinan University, Guangzhou
Belgium
L85
F&E
Romania
L85
F&E http://www.ibiol.ro/istoric.htm
Belgium
U.S.A.
F&E
F&E
Romania
F&E
Germany
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
Sabaj et al. 1997; Gilbert 1998
U.S.A.
Belgium
Belgium
Meredith Mahoney pers. comm. 2011

France
F&E
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Capparella pers. comm. 2011

L85
L85
F&E
Gilbert 1998
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Germany
Mexico
Vietnam
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E Ferraris 2007
Colombia
F&E Ferraris 2007
Daza et al. 2009

Nguyen et al. 2009
F&E
Italy
L85
F&E
Azerbaijan
Cuba
Poland
L85
F&E
F&E
Chile
L85
F&E Ferraris 2007
Chile
L85
Italy
Italy
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
L85
F&E
Germany
Czech Republic
China
Lavenberg & Yaez 1972

F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007
JPHM
KUHE
Jean P. Haydon Museum, Pago Pago

Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province; perhaps
change to FFRIJP (Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010)
Kagoshima University Museum, Korimoto, Kagoshima; KAUM-I (ichthyology), KAUM-II
(ichthyological images), KAUM-VE (vertebrates except fishes, including herps)
Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Kerala
Kanudi Fisheries Research Station, National Fisheries Authority, Konedobu [abandoned, salvage
at UPNG]; previously known as Department of Fishery & Marine Resources; also as KFRI
Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources, Frankfort, Kentucky
Kulturhistorisches Museum, Magdeburg; also as MM (Museum fr Naturkunde, Magdeburg)
Christian-Albrechts-Universitt zu Kiel, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultt,
Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein
Korean Institute of Freshwater Biology, Seoul; Some specimens moved to SMU.
Seoul National University [formerly Keijo Imperial University; Kyngsng University],
Preparatory Department, Seoul; Historical collections destroyed in Korean War, 1950-1953
Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan
Krakow Museum of Natural History, Krakow
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, Keswick, Cumbria, England
Amathole Museum [formerly Kaffrarian Museum], King William's Town
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Kitakyushyu, Fukuoka
Kushimoto Marine Park Center, Kushimoto-chu, Nishimuro-gun, Wakayama Prefecture, Kii
Peninsula
Kruger National Park, Skukuza, Transvaal
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Odawara, Kanagawa; also as KPM-NI
See KPM.
Kohima Science College, Kohima, Nagaland
Kochi Nishi Senior High School, Kamobe, Kochi Prefectural; Yamakawa private collection assigned
BSKU catalog numbers 50000-79999 (Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010)
University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute (formerly as Museum of Natural History, that name
now reserved for public unit of institute), Lawrence, Kansas; current for Recent fishes & herps;
KUVP current for paleo collection
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto
KUMF
Kasetsart University, Faculty of Agriculture, Museum of Fisheries, Bangkok; separate from RLIKU Thailand
KUVP
KUZ
LACM
LACMNH
See KU.
Kyoto University, Department of Zoology Museum, Kyoto
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California
See LACM.
Living Aquatic Resources Research Center, National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute,
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientiane
Living Aquatic Resources Research Institute, Vientiane
Lake Biwa Museum, Kusatsu, Shiga prefecture
See MZB.
Laboratrio de Biologia e Gentica de Peixes, Departamento de Morfologia da Universidade
Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, So Paulo; incorrectly as LPB in Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010
Laboratrio de Biodiversidade de Recursos Pesqueiros, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro;
Now in MNRJ
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Biolgico Pesqueras, Laboratorio Biolgico, Mexico City
Laboratoire de Biogographie, Universit de Montpellier
Instituto de Cincias do Mar (formerly Laboratrio de Cincias do Mar), Universidade Federal do
Cear, Fortaleza
JS
KAUM
KFRI
KFRS
KFW
KHMM
KIEL
KIFB
KIU
KIZ
KM
KMAG
KMK
KMNH
KMPC
KNP
KPM
KPM-NI
KSC
KSHS
KU
LARREC
LARRI
LBM
LBN
LBP
LBRP
LBT
LBUM
LCM
American Samoa
L&G
China
F&E
Japan
F&E H. Motomura pers. comm. 18 Sep 2010
India
F&E
Papua New Guinea
L85 L&G
F&E
U.S.A.
Germany
L85
L85
F&E
Germany
F&E
South Korea
F&E
South Korea
F&E
China
Poland
U.K.
South Africa
Japan
L85
L85

F&E
L85
L85
Japan
F&E
South Africa
Japan
Japan
India
L85
Japan
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
F&E Andy Bentley pers. comm. 2010
F&E
F&E
David et al. 2007
Japan
U.S.A.
Japan
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Nguyen et al. 2009

L85
F&E
Arratia & Schultze 1990; Gilbert 1998
Nguyen et al. 2009
L85
F&E
F&E
Laos
F&E
Laos
Japan
Indonesia
F&E
Takahashi & Nakaya 2003
F&E
Brazil
Benine et al. 2007
Brazil
F&E
Mexico
France
Brazil
Gilbert 1998
Khler & Gsten 2007
L85
LDHRN
LEMUR
LFBKU
LFL
LFRH
LGE
LHC
LHUC
LIAIP
LICPP
LIG
LIRP
LISDEBE
LIVCM
LJG
LMB
LMM
LNEP-UFF
LNHNY
LNHSM
LNK
LNLJ
LOC-DBEZ-UFR
LON
LON NCIP
LS
LSJUM
LSL
LSUHC
LSUMZ
LSUS
LTU
LU
LUGD
Natural History Department, Horniman Museum & Public Park Foundation, London
Laboratoire d'cologie Marine, Universit de La Runion, Saint-Denis, La Runion
Laboratory of Fishery Biology, Kyushu University [formerly Kyushu Imperial University],
Fukuoka, Kyushu
Larval Fish Laboratory Collection, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Warner
College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; separate from
CSU (now obsolete)
Laboratory of Fishery Research and Hydrobiology, Slovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
Bratislava
U.K.
France
F&E
Japan
F&E
U.S.A.
Darrel E. Snyder pers. comm. 2010
Slovakia
Holk & Hensel 1974

Kolenc et al. 2011:514, Francisco Kolenc pers.
comm. 2012, Diego Baldo pers. comm. 2012
Laboratorio de Gentica Evolutiva, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Posadas; see also CHUNAM Argentina
Laboratoire d'Hydrobiologie et d'Aquaculture, Facult des Sciences Agronomiques, Universit
d'Abomey Calavi, Cotonou
Laboratoire d'Hydrobiologie, UFR Biosciences, Universit de Cocody, Abidjan
Laboratory of Ichthyology, Akasaka Imperial Palace, Tokyo; obsolete, changed to BLIP in 200809 (Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010)
Laboratory of Ichthyology, The Crown Prince's Palace; changed to BLIP in 2008/2009 (Fricke &
Eschmeyer 2010)
See LJG.
Laboratrio de Ictiologia de Ribeiro Preto, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia,
Cincias e Letras, Universidade de So Paulo, So Paulo
Laboratrio de Ictiologia Sistemtica, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva (DEBE),
Universidade Federal de So Carlos, So Carlos
World Museum [previously as Merseyside County Museum], Liverpool, England
Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz, Steiermark; also as LIG
Moravsk zemsk muzeum, Brn [=Brno]
See MHNMM.
Laboratrio de Biologia do Ncton e Ecologia Pesqueira, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de
Janeiro
New York Academy of Sciences [formerly Lyceum of Natural History], New York, Yew York;
historical collections apparently lost (possibly burned in dock fire during the Civil War).
Lingnan Natural History Survey and Museum, Lingnan Museum, Lingnan, Guangzhou
Landessammlungen fr Naturkunde Karlsruhe; now Staatliche Museum fr Naturkunde Karlsruhe
(SMNK)
See IMECBIO.
Laboratrio do Oceano do Departmento de Botca, Ecologia e Zoologia da Universidade Federal
do Rio Grande do Norte; complete as LOC-DBEZ-UFRN
Lembaga Oseanologie Nasional [alternatively National Oceanological Institute], Jakarta; also as
LON NCIP
See LON.
Linnean Society of London, London, England; also as LSL
See SU.
Linnean Society of London, London, England; also as LS
La Sierra University, Riverside, California
Louisiana Museum of Natural History [formerly Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoology (1999)], Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Museum of Life Sciences, Shreveport, Louisiana
Louisiana Tech University Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Ruston
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (herps)
See LUVP.
Bnin
F&E
Cte d'Ivoire
F&E
Japan
F&E
Japan
L85
F&E
Austria
F&E
Brazil
F&E Marcel R. Cavallaro pers. comm. 2010
Brazil
U.K.
Austria
Czech Republic
Mozambique
F&E
L85
Ferraris 2007
F&E
L85
F&E
Brazil
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E Robert A. Daniels pers. comm. 2010
China
F&E
Germany
L85
Mexico
Brazil
F&E
Indonesia
F&E
Indonesia
U.K.
U.S.A.
U.K.
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
David et al. 2007
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
India
L85
L85
F&E Taggart et al. 2006

Laurence M. Hardy pers. comm. 2010
David L. Cundall pers. comm. 2010
Kroh 2010
MBUCV
MBZH
MCLSBB
MCM
Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Geology Department, Luchnow University, Luchnow; also as

LUGD
Laboratorio de Vigo, Vigo
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Tissue Collection, Paradise, Nevada
Laboratory of Zoology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; also as DZAUT
Awash National Park
See MAC-APU.
Ministerio de Agricultura y Cra, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agricolas (INIA), Estacin
Experimental Apure, San Fernando de Apure; also as MAC
Ministerio de Agricultura y Cra, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agricolas (INIA), Estacin
Experimental Amazonas, Puerto Ayacucho
Ministerio de Agricultura y Cra, Seccin de Pesca Interior y Piscicultura, Caracas
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" [formerly Museo Nacional de
Argentina], Buenos Aires (includes paleo); MACN houses herps formerly deposited at CENAI
(closed in 1979) & CFA; also as MACN-ICT (Coleccin Nacional de Ictiologa)
Madras Museum, Madras, Tamil Nadu
See MDUG.
Museum A. Koenig (personal collection)
See UTEP.
University of Sydney, Macleay Museum, Sydney, New South Wales; also as MU, MMUS; Types
specimens of fishes at AMS.
Musum-Aquarium de Nancy, Institut de Zoologie, Universit de Nancy [formerly L'Ancienne
Universit, among others], Nancy; also as MZUVN, MZN
Museu Anchieta de Cincias Naturais, Colgio Anchieta, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Museu Bocage [alternatively Museu Nacional de Histria Natural], Universidade de Lisboa,
Lisboa; collection destroyed by fire in 1979
Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas, Galveston, Texas
Museo de Biologa de la Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Zulia
Museu de Biologia Professor Mello Leito, Coleo Zoolgica, Santa Teresa, Esprito Santo
Marine Biological Station Hurghada [formerly Marine Biological Station Al-Ghardaqa], National
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Hurghada
Museo de Biologa de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas; MBUC-V (fishes)
Museo y Bibliotheca de la Zoologia, Habana
See MCSBCN.
Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada, Azores
MCMC
See MNHNM.
LUVP
LV
LVT
LZUT
MA
MAC
MAC-APU
MAC-PAY
MACLPI
MACN
MAD
MADUG
MAK
MALB
MAMU
MAN
MAPA
MB
MBI
MBLUZ
MBML
MBSH
MCMK
MCN
MCN.USB
MCNC
MCNCH
MCNG
MCNI
MCNZ
MCP
Medical College Kolkata, Museum [formerly Medical College Calcutta; Medical College Museum,
Calcutta], Kolkata, West Bengal; also as MCMC (occupied)
Museu de Cincias Naturais, Fundao Zoobotnica [formerly Museu Riograndense de Cincias
Naturais (MRCN)], Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul; also as MCNZ (herps)
Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Simn Bolvar, Caracas
Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Los Caobos (Plaza Morelos), Caracas
Museo de Ciencias Naturales "Augusto G. Schulz", Chaco
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de UNELLEZ, Guanare, Portuguesa
Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Salta, Salta; also as
MCMI
See MCN.
Museu de Cincias e Tecnologia, Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
India
Spain
U.S.A.
Greece
Ethiopia
Venezuela
Ferraris 2007
L85
Houston et al. 2010
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
Venezuela
F&E
Venezuela
F&E
Venezuela
F&E
Argentina
L85
India
Mexico
Germany
U.S.A.
L85 L&G
Australia
L85
Azpelicueta & Cione 2011, Cabrera & Colantonio

F&E 2001:115, Kolenc et al. 2011:514; Cspedez
2003
F&E
France
F&E
F&E
Brazil
L85
F&E
Portugal
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
Venezuela
Brazil
L85
Prez & Viloria 1994
F&E Ferreira et al. 2010
Egypt
Venezuela
Cuba
Spain
Portugal
F&E
L85
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/sear
ch/goto/page/0/index/0/id/33771?search=mcm
c
Mexico
India
Brazil
Venezuela
Venezuela
Argentina
Venezuela
F&E
L85
F&E
Lundberg & Aguilera 2003
L85
L85
Argentina
F&E
F&E
F&E
Brazil
Brazil

L85
F&E
MCSBCN
MCSN
MCSNC
MCSNH
Spain
Italy
Italy
U.S.A.
MHNBX
MHNC
MHNC
Museos del Collegi La Salle Bonanova de Ciencias Naturales, Barcelona; also as MCLSBB
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Trieste
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola, Carmagnola
See MNHSC.
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona [incorrectly associated with MGAB, Romania in Fricke &
Eschmeyer 2010]
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; also as MCZH
See MCZ.
Museo Civico di Zoologia, Comune di Roma, Roma; also as MZGZ
Museo Regional do Dundo, Chitato, Luanda-Norte
Museo Alfredo Dugs, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato; contains many herp types of
Dugs; also as MADUG
Museum Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
Museum of Evolution [Muzeum Ewolucji], Paleobiological Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warszawa
Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela Politcnica Nacional, Quito
Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropolgicas, Paran, Entre Ros
Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales "Florentino Ameghino", Santa F; also as MFA-ZV
See MFA.
Adelhausermuseum fr Naturkunde und Vlkerkunde, Freiburg, Baden-Wrttemberg
Marine Fisheries Laboratory, Department of Fisheries [formerly Siam Department of Fisheries,
Thailand Bureau of Fisheries], Bangkok
Museo Felipe Poey, Habana
Malawi Fisheries Research Unit, Ministry of Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs; Also as
MFU.
Museo Friulano di Storia naturale, Udine
Museum Gissen, Gissen, Hessen
Musee Guimet; See MHNL.
Muzeul de Istorie Naturala 'Grigore Antipa', Bucuresti [=Bucharest]; Also as NHMB, MCVR,
MHNGA, MINB
Museum Godeffroy (1861-1885), Hamburg; Collections sold to various museums, e.g. ZMH,
BMNH, SMNS
Muse Guimet d'Histoire naturelle de Lyon; obsolete, replaced by MHNL
Matuyama Girl's High School, Matuyama City
Museo Herpetologica de Chiriqu, David, Chiriqu
Naturhistorische Museum Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz
See MHNUNC.
Musum d'Histoire naturelle, Bale; deleted in Leviton & Gibbs 1988 (duplicate for NMBA,
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel)
Musum dhistoire naturelle, Bordeaux
Museo de Historia Naturale de Cochabamba
Muse d'histoire naturelle, La Chaux-de-Fonds; also as MHNLCDF (possibly obsolete)
MHNCI
Museu de Histria Natural Capo da Imbuia, Curitiba, Paran
Brazil
MHNF
MHNG
Muse d'Histoire Naturelle, Universite de Fribourg, Fribourg

Musum d'histoire naturelle, Genve; also as MNG (obsolete)
Museu de Histria Natural e Jardim Botnico, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais
See MUSM.
Muse National d'Histoire Naturelle, Collections zoologiques; also as MNHNLU
Switzerland
Switzerland
MCVR
MCZ
MCZH
MCZR
MD
MDUG
MDZAU
MEPAN
MEPN
MER
MFA
MFA-ZV
MFB
MFLB
MFP
MFRU
MFSN
MG
MG
MGAB
MGH
MGHNL
MGHSJ
MHCH
MHMZ
MHN-UNC
MHNB
MHNI
MHNJP
MHNL
F&E
F&E
Italy
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Italy
Angola
L85
India
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007
Flores-Villela et al. 2010; Oscar Flores-Villela
pers. comm. 2010
F&E
Mexico
L85
Poland
F&E
Ecuador
Argentina
Argentina
Argentina
Germany
F&E Ferraris 2007

F&E
F&E Maneyro et al. 2008
Thailand
F&E
Cuba
L85
L85
Malawi
F&E
Italy
Germany
France
L85
F&E
Romania
L85
F&E
Germany
F&E
France
Japan
Panama
Germany
Colombia
F&E
F&E
Switzerland
France
Bolivia
Switzerland
Khler et al. 2007

F&E
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Ferraris 2007
L85
F&E
L85
Brazil
Peru
Luxembourg
Ferreira et al. 2010 (as MHNCL, presumably a

misspelling)
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
Ferraris 2007
MHUA
Muse d'Histoire Naturelle [formerly Muse Guimet d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon], Lyon; also as
MGHNL (obsolete), MG
Muse d'histoire naturelle, La Chaux-de-Fonds; also as MHNC (presumably more current)
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, La Rochelle
Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Fundacin La Salle de Ciencias Naturales [formerly Museo de
Ciencias Naturales], Caracas; replacement for SCN; also as MNHLS
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural [formerly Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo],
Montevideo; suggested replacement for MNHN to distinguish from Musum national d'Histoire
naturelle, Paris
Museu de Historia Natural Maputo [formerly Loureno Marques Museum; Museu lvaro de
Castro], Maputo; also as LMM
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Neuchtel, Neuchtel [MHNN may have been alternatively
applied to Musum de Historia Naturelle de Nantes by Kottelat et al. 1993]
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice, La Zoothque, Vertbrs Marins, Nice
Museu de Histria Natural, Prefeitura Municipal de Pirassununga, Pirassununga, So Paulo
Musum d'Histoire Naturelle, Saint-Denis; also as MHN RUN
Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de Cauca, Popayn; also as UCP (Leviton et al.
1988)
Departamento de Ictiologa, Museo de Historia Natural, Departamento de Biologa, Facultad de
Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot; also as MHN-UNC
Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso, Valparaiso
See MNHP.
Sternberg Museum of Natural History [formerly Museum of the High Plains], Fort Hays State
University, Hays, Kansas (fishes & herps)
Museo de Herpetologa de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medelln
MHUL
Museo Herpetolgico de la Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Nicaragua-Len, Len
MHNL
MHNLCDF
MHNLR
MHNLS
MHNM
MHNMM
MHNN
MHNNICE
MHNP
MHNRUN
MHNUC
MHNUNC
MHNV
MHP
MHP
MHV
MIKU
MIMB
MINB
ML
MLBM
MLEP
MLP
MLP DB
MLS
MLS
MLSU
MLU
MLZ
Muse National de Burkina Faso, Mnistre de la Culture, des Arts et du Tourisme [formerly Muse
de Haute Volta (Upper Volta)], Ouagadougou
Marine Biological Institute, Kyoto University; Specimens now at FAKU.
Museum of A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, Vladivostok [=Vladyvostok]; current for fishes & herps
See MGAB.
Prirodoslovni muzej Slovenije (Slovenian Museum of Natural History), Ljubljana; also as MLSU
See BYU.
Naturkundemuseum Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen; also as NML (fishes)
Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires [also cited as Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata
(CHMLPA); founded as Museo Antropolgico y Arqueolgico de Buenos Aires based on collections
donated by Francisco Pascasio Moreno]; current for Recent fishes (distinct from ILPLA) & fossils
(Coleccin Paleontologa), amphibians (MLP A.), reptiles (MLP R. for catalog numbers >= 5000),
lizards & snakes (MLP S. & MLP JW., respectively, for catalog numbers <5000); Diego Baldo
personal collection (herps) formerly housed at Museo de La Plata as MLP DB (D. Baldo pers.
comm. 2012)
Diego Baldo Personal Collection (herps); formerly housed at Museo de La Plata as MLP DB (now
closed); DB collection currently at LGE, Posadas
Museo de Historia Natural [formerly del Instituto] de La Salle, Bogot
Marine Laboratory Sydney. Now at CSIRO.
St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) State University, Zoological Museum, St. Petersburg
Martin-Luther-Universitt Halle-Wittenberg, Institut fr Zoologie und Zoologische Sammlung
Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Biology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California;
also as OC
France
Switzerland
France
F&E
L85
Venezuela
Uruguay
F&E Ferraris 2007

L85
Mozambique
Switzerland
F&E Ferraris 2007
F&E Cabrera & Colantonio 2001:115, Ferraris 2007

F&E
L85 L&G
F&E
France
Brazil
France
F&E
F&E
F&E
Colombia
F&E
Colombia
Chile
Czech Republic
F&E
L85
U.S.A.
Taggart et al. 2006
Colombia
Daza et al. 2009

Sunyer et al. 2010; David B. Wake pers. comm.
2010
Nicaragua
Burkina Faso
L85
F&E Ferraris 2007
Japan
F&E Ferraris 2007
Russia
F&E Vladimir E. Kharin pers. comm. 2010
Romania
Slovenia
U.S.A.
Germany
Argentina
F&E
L85
L85
Ursenbacher et al. 2006

Houston et al. 2010
F&E
Argentina
Colombia
Australia
Russia
Germany
U.S.A.
Ferraris 2007, Ferraro & Williams 2006, Bogan &

Agnolin 2009, Diego Baldo pers. comm. 2012
Francisco Kolenc pers. comm. 2012

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Villa-Navarro et al. 2006

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http://departments.oxy.edu/mlz/
MM
MM
MMB
MMB
MMF
MMG
MMGPE
MMK
MMM
MMNH
MMNHN
MMNHS
MMNS
MMSU
MMTT
MMUS
MN
MNA
MNCN
MNCR
MNH
MNHLS
MNHN
MNHN
MNHN-ZA
MNHNC
MNHNCH
MNHNLU
MNHNM
MNHNP
MNHNP
MNHNSD
MNHP
MNHSC
MNHV
MNHW
MNKM
MNKP
MNRJ
MNRT
Museum fr Naturkunde, Magdeburg; also as KHMM (Kulturhistorisches Museum, Magdeburg)

Museo del Mar, Bogot
Muse de la Mer, Biarritz
The Moravian Museum [alternatively Moravsk Zemsk Muzeum or Mhrische Landesmuseum;
formerly Mhrisches Museum], Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Brno
Estao de Biologia Marinha do Funchal, Funchal Cmara Municipal [formerly Museu Municipal do
Funchal], Funchal
Casa Museo Payn, Parque Nacional Natural Goergona, Isla de Gorgona; Also as MMGPE
See MMG.
McGregor Museum, Kimberley, Cape Province
Museo Marino de Margarita, Margarita
Musum d'histoire naturelle, Marseille
Nanjing Museum, Chinese Academy of Sciences [formerly Metropolitan Museum of Natural
History Nanjing, Academia Sinica], Nanjing
Macedonian Museum of Natural History, Skopje
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science [formerly Fannye A. Cook Memorial Museum], Jackson,
Mississippi; some Cook fish specimens at FMNH, USNM, AMNH
See ZMMU
Muze-ye Melli-ye Tarikh-i Tabi'i, Tehran
See MAMU.
See MNRJ.
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
Museo Nacional, San Jose
See HNHM.
See MHNLS.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural [formerly Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo],
Montevideo; remains in use although Fricke & Eschmeyer (2010) suggested replacement
abbreviation MHNM to distinguish from Musum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.
Musum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris; also as MNHN-ZA (osteological specimens of fishes,
amphibians & reptiles); MNHN also currently used for Museo Nacional de Historia Natural,
Montevideo, Uruguay
See MNHN.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Zoologa, Santiago; Also as MNHNCH.
See MNHNC.
Muse National d'Histoire Naturelle, Collections zoologiques; also as MHNL
Museo de Historia Natural y Cultura Ambiental [formerly Museo Nacional de Historia Natural,
UNAM; alternatively Museo de Historia Natural de la Ciudad de Mxico], Chapultepec, Mexico
City; also as MCMC (entomology only)
See MNHN.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, Asuncin
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo
Nrodn muzeum [National Museum], Prague; also as MHP, NMP6V (both herps)
Museum of Natural History and Science, Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal [formerly
Museum, Cincinnati Society of Natural History], Cincinnati, Ohio; also as MCSNH
The Natural History Museum, Varna
See UW.
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Sammlungen Natur und Umwelt, Mannheim, Baden-Wrttemburg
Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro; also as MN, UFRJ
Ministry of Natural Resources, Toronto
Germany
Colombia
France
Khler & Gsten 2007

F&E
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Czech Republic
Madeira
Colombia
Colombia
South Africa
Venezuela
France
F&E
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
L85
China
F&E
Macedonia
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
Russia
Iran
Australia
Brazil
U.S.A.
Spain
Costa Rica
Hungary
Venezuela
L85 L&G
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
L85
L85
F&E
Gilbert 1998
Uruguay
France
F&E
F&E
F&E Kolenc et al. 2011
L85
F&E
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
Mexico
L85
F&E
France
Paraguay
Dominican Republic
Czech Republic
L85
L85
L85
France
Chile
Chile
Luxembourg
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/313/fannyecook-pioneer-conservationist
Ivan Ineich pers. comm. 2010; Salvador Bailon

pers. comm. 2010
Salvador Bailon pers. comm. 2010

F&E Ferraris 2007
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E
Bulgaria
U.S.A.
Germany
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
F&E
F&E
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http://www.sma.df.gob.mx/mhn/index.php?op=
07habiaunavez

F&E Ferraris 2007
F&E
MNS
MNSB
MNUL
MOFUNG
MOFURG
MOM
MOSU
MOVI
MPBAR
MPEF-PV
MPEG
MPM
MPUJ
MPUW
MQU
MRAC
MRCN
MRSN
MRSNT
MSB
MSINR
MSLH
MSM
MSNC
MSNG
MSNGD
MSNM
MSNP
MSNT
MSNTO
MSNV
MSNVE
MSNVR
MSP
MSTFM
MSU
MSUB
MSUI
See SMNS.
See HNHM.
Museum fr Natur und Umwelt, Lbecker Museen, Hansestadt Lbeck, Schleswig-Holstein
See MOFURG.
Museu Oceanogrfico "Professor Elizer de Carvalho Rios", Fundaao Univerdidade Federal do Rio
Grande, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul; also as MOFUNG
Muse Oceanographique de Monaco
Morehead State University, College of Science and Technology, Department of Biological &
Enviornmental Sciences, Morehead Research Fish Collection, Morehead, Kentucky
Museu Oceanogrfico Univali, Peixes, Universidade do Vale do Itaja, [formerly Museu
Oceanogrfico do Vale do Itaja (-2008), Itaja, Santa Catarina
Museo Paleontolgico de la Asociacin Palentolgica Bariloche, San Carlos de Bariloche, Ro
Negro
Museo Paleontolgico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut
Museu Paraense "Emilio Goeldi", Zoologia, Belm, Par
Milwaukee Public Museum, Vertebrate Zoology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museo de Pontifica Universidad de Javeriana [alternatively Museo Javeriano de Historia Natural
Lorenzo Uribe, S.J.], Bogot; also as MUJ
Muzeum Przyrodnicze, Uniwesytet Wroclawski [University of Wrocaw, formerly University of
Breslau], Wroclaw, Lower Silesia; also as UWZM (obsolete, occupied by University of Wisconsin
Zoological Museum).
Macquarie University, Department of Biological Sciences, North Ryde, New South Wales
Muse Royal de l'Afrique Centrale [Koninklijk Museum voor Midden Afrika], Tervuren
See MCN.
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali [alternatively Museum of Turin], Zoologia, Torino (herps);
also as MRSNT (fishes)
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali [alternatively Museum of Turin], Zoologia, Torino (fishes);
also as MRSN (herps)
Museum of Southwestern Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque; also as UNM (obsolete, but remains in use for herp specimen tags)
Museum, Sichuan Provincial Natural Resources Research Institute, Chengdu, Sichuan
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Biology, Simon F. S. Li Marine Science
Laboratory, Hong Kong
Marine Science Museum, Tokai University, Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture; see also TUMF
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola, Carmagnola; also as MCSNC
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova
Collection of Marchese Giacomo Doria; now in MSNG
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milano
Museo di Storia Naturale di Universit di Pavia, Pavia, Lombardia
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste, Trieste
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Torino, Torino
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, Venezia; obsolete, replaced by MSNVE
Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia [formerly Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia],
Venezia; MSNVE formally replaced MSNV in 2008
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Sezione di Zoologia, Verona
Madras Snake Park, Madras, Tamil Nadu
Middle School of the Third Factory Machinery, Yunnan
Mississippi State University, Mississippi
Montana State University, Biology Department, Bozeman, Montana
Iowa State University, University Museums, Ames, Iowa; for Scorpaena nuttingi Evermann &
Seale (whereabouts unknown)
Germany
Hungary
Germany
Brazil
F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007
F&E
F&E
Brazil
Monaco
F&E
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E
Brazil
F&E
Argentina
Argentina
Brazil
U.S.A.

L85
L85
Colombia
F&E
F&E
Poland
Australia
Belgium
Brazil

L85
L85
F&E
Ferraris 2007
Italy
Italy
U.S.A.
F&E
L85
China
Gilbert 1998; Alexandra M. Snyder pers. comm.

2010
F&E Ferraris 2007
China
L85
F&E
Japan
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
Italy
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
L85
L85
L85
L85
F&E Nicola Novarini pers. comm. 2012
Italy
Italy
India
China
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Nicola Novarini pers. comm. 2012

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MSUM
MU
MUDB
MUFM
Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan; also as MSU (obsolete)
Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,
Museum of Natural History, Alwarkurichi, Tamil Nadu; also as SPKCES
University of Memphis [formerly Memphis State University], Museum of Zoology, Memphis,
Tennessee
See MRAC.
See TINRO.
See MTKD.
Mnchner Tierpark Hellabrunn A.G., Mnchen, Bayern; Old collection destroyed in 1944
Museum fr Tierkunde, Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen [Staatliche Naturhistorische
Sammlungen], Dresden; also as MTD
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Museum of Fishery Sciences [formerly
Museum of Tokyo University of Fisheries], Tokyo; also as IFI
See MAMU.
Memorial University, Department of Biology, St. John's, Newfoundland
See MUMF.
MUFS
Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki Japan
MUHNES
MUI
MUJ
Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvador, San Salvador

See IU.
See MPUJ.
Manipur University Museum of Fish, Chanchipur, Manipur; also as MUFM (obsolete for fishes),
MUMF-Per 95 (W. Vishwanath personal collection)
Sabah Museum [formerly North Borneo Museum], Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; also as SBM, SMEC
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima; also as MHNJP
(Museo de Historia Natural "Javier Prado"; obsolete), UNMSM.
See ZUMT.
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, Venezia; also as MSNV
Museo de Vertebrados, Universidad de Panam, Panama City; also as UP (presumably obsolete
or never adopted)
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley [part of Berkeley Natural
History Museums consortium (BNHM)], California; current for herps, fish collection consists only
of 64 specimens donated from Milton Hildebrand, University of California, Davis (UCD); museum
separate from UCMP (paleo).
See MWNH (herps) and SMW.
Museum Wiesbaden, Naturhistorische Landessammlung, Wiesbaden; also as NSMW, SMW
Midwestern State University, Department of Biology Collection, Wichita Falls, Texas
Museo Zoolgico de la Universidad de Ciencias y Artes del Estado de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutirrez,
Chiapas
Bidang Zoologi, Pusat Penelitian Biologi, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI) [formerly
Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense], Bogor; also as LBN
Museu Zoolgico da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra
Museo de Zoologa "Alfonso L. Herrera" de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional
Autnoma de Mxico, Mexico City
Museo di Zoologia del Giardino Zoologico, Rome; See MCZR.
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki
Museum of Zoology, Mayai Lambi College, Manipur
See MAN.
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Navarra [Museum of Zoology of the University
of Navarra], Pamplona; current for fishes & herps
MSUMNH
MSUMZ
MT
MT
MTD
MTH
MTKD
MTUF
MUMF
MUS
MUSM
MUT
MVEN
MVUP
MVZ
MW
MWNH
MWSU
MZ-ICACH
MZB
MZC
MZFC
MZGZ
MZH
MZMLC
MZN
MZNA
U.S.A.
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F&E Taggart et al. 2006; Ferraris 2007
India
U.S.A.
F&E
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Belgium
Russia
Germany
Germany

F&E
F&E
Germany
L85
F&E Khler & Gsten 2007; Nguyen et al. 2009
Japan
L85
F&E
Australia
Canada
India
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
El Salvador
U.S.A.
Colombia
F&E
Daza et al. 2009
India
F&E Darshan et al. 2011
Malaysia
F&E Tan 2006
Peru
F&E
Japan
Italy
F&E
http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org
Panama
U.S.A.
Khler et al. 2007
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Germany
Germany
U.S.A.
Khler & Gsten 2007

L&G
Khler et al. 2007
Indonesia
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Portugal
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F&E Ferraris 2007

2009
Mexico
Spain
Nguyen et al. 2009; Carol Spencer pers. comm

2010
F&E
Mexico
Italy
Finland
India
France
F&E
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F&E
F&E
F&E
Salinas & Ario 2000; Rafael Miranda pers.
comm. 2010
MZP
MZP
MZPA
MZS
MZSP
MZTG
MZUA
MZUABCS
MZUB
MZUC
MZUC
MZUEL
MZUF
MZUFBA
MZUL
MZULG
MZUP
MZUS
MZUSP
MZUT
MZUTH
MZUV
MZUVN
MZYU
NARA
NBM
NCIP
NCIV
NCMR
NCSM
NEMS
NEW
NGI
NHM
NHM
NHM
NHMB
NHMG
NHMGZAR
NHMI
NHMR
NHMT
Museu e Laboratrio Zoolgico, Instituto de Zoologia e Estao de Zoologia Martima do Dr.

Augusto Nobre [Museu de Zoologia Augusto Nobre, Museu de Histria Natural], Universidade de
Porto, Porto
See MZUSP.
Museo di Zoologia, Universit di Palermo [Museo Zoologia Pietro Doderlein], Palermo; also as
MZUP
See MZUS.
See MZUSP.
See IHN.
Zoological Museum, University of Athens, Athens
See UABCS.
Museo di Zoologia dell'Universit di Bologna, Bologna
Museo de Zoologa, Universidad Nacional de Crdoba, Crdoba
Museo de Zoologa de la Universidad de Concepcin, Concepcin; replacement for IZUC
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Paran; current for fishes
Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia "La Specola", Firenze [=Florence]
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador; also as UFBA
See ZMUL.
Universit de Lige, L'Aquarium "Dubuisson" et le Muse de Zoologie, Lige
Museo di Zoologia, Universit di Palermo [Museo Zoologia Pietro Doderlein], Palermo; also as
MZPA.
Muse Zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg, Universit de Strasbourg [includes formerly
independent Universit Louis-Pasteur], Strasbourg; also as MZS
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de So Paulo, So Paulo; also as MZSP, MSP (both obsolete)
Museo di Zoologia, Universit di Torino, Torino [=Turin]; herps now in MSNM
Museum of Zoology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki; also as ZMUT (abbreviation occupied)
Museo de Zoologa, Facultad de Biologa, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz
See MAN.
Museum of Zoology, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yunnan University [formerly
Private University of the Eastern Land (1922-1934)], Kunming, Yunnan; also as YU
National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency, Colombo
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Oseanologi, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI),
Jakarta, Java; also as Lembaga Oseanologi Nasional (Leviton et al. 1985); also as NCIV
See NCIP.
Hellenic [formerly National] Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Inland Waters, Anavyssos
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences [formerly North Carolina State Museum], Raleigh,
North Carolina
Northeastern Missouri State University, Department of Zoology, Kirksville, Missouri
University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales
See NIGLAS.
Natural History Museum (1975-), Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University,
Swayambhu, Kathmandu; used in herpetology, see also ZICT (ichthyology, possibly obsolete)
See NMBE.
See BMNH.
See MGAB.
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet; obsolete, replaced by GNM
Natural History Museum, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning
Natural History Museum and Institute, Port Louis
Museum of Natural History, Institute of Natural History, Reykjavik; also as IMNH
National Science Museum of Thailand, Bangkok
Portugal
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Brazil
F&E
Italy
France
Brazil
Mexico
Greece
Mexico
Italy
Argentina
Chile
Brazil
Italy
Brazil
Sweden
Belgium
F&E Cabrera & Colantonio 2001:115
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
L85
Italy
L85
France
L85
Brazil
Italy
Greece
Mexico
France
L85
L85
China
Maneyro et al. 2008

Randall & Melndez 1987; Correa et al. 2008
F&E Garcia et al. 2010
F&E Ferraris 2007
F&E A. Carvalho-Filho pers. comm. 28 Sep 2010
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E Jay Savage pers. comm. 2010
F&E
F&E
F&E
Sri Lanka
Canada
L85 L&G
F&E
Indonesia
L85
Indonesia
Greece
F&E
F&E
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
Australia
China
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
Nepal
Switzerland
U.K.
Romania
Sweden
China
Mauritius
Iceland
Thailand
Kuch et al. 2005; TU_today_2008.pdf

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F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
Nguyen et al. 2009
NHMUK
NHMW
See BMNH.
See NMW.
U.K.
Austria
NHRM
Not adopted; NRM in current use for fishes & herps.
Sweden
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NHRS
NICA
NIFI
NIG
NIGL
See NRM.
National Institute of Coastal Aquaculture, Songkhla
National Inland Fisheries Institute, Fish Taxonomy Division, Bangkok
See NIGLAS.
See NIGLAS.
Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [formerly Academia
Sinica, Geographic Institute of China (1940-1953)], Nanjing; also as NIG, NIGL, NGI
National Institute for Polar Research, Tokyo
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch
National Kweiyang Medical College, Division of Biology, Kweiyang, Kweichow
University of Louisiana at Monroe [formerly Northeast Louisiana University], Museum of Natural
History [formerly Zoology], Monroe, Louisiana; also as NLM
Naturkundemuseum Bamberg, Bamberg, Bayern
See SNMBR (Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig) and NMBA (Naturhistorisches
Museum Basel)
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel; also as NMB
Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Bern
National Museum, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
See QVMS.
Canadian Museum of Nature [formerly National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums
of Canada], Ottawa; same as CMNFI
NOAA [National Marine] Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center [formerly
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Honolulu (BCFH)], Honolulu, Hawaii; Much of BCFH collection
transferred to BPBM
Naturhistorisches Museum zu Hamburg; replaced by ZMH, Zoological Museum Hamburg
National Museum of Ireland, Natural History Division, Dublin
National Museums of Kenya, Directorate of Research and Collections, Zoology Department,
Nairobi
Naturkundemuseum Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen; also as MLEP (herps)
National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Pingtung; also as TMF, NMMBP, NMMB P
See NMMB.
North Manchurian Museum, Harbin, Manchuria
See NTOU.
National Museum of Nambia [formerly Staatsmuseum Windhoek], Natural History, Department of
Lower Vertebrates, Windhoek
National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi; replacement for NMNH (sensu Leviton et al.
1985)
National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi; replaced by NMND (Leviton & Gibbs 1988)
National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia; also as NZMS (sensu
Leviton et al. 1985)
National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa [formerly Colonial Museum, Dominion Museum,
National Museum of New Zealand], Wellington; also as NMNZ P. (fishes)
Natal Museum (alternative name available in isiZulu language), Pietermaritzburg, Natal; also as
NMSA
See EKZNW.
Sweden
Thailand
Thailand
China
China
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NIGLAS
NIPR
NIU
NIWA
NKMC
NLU
NMB
NMB
NMBA
NMBE
NMBO
NMBZ
NMC
NMFSH
NMH
NMI
NMK
NML
NMMB
NMMBP
NMMH
NMMST
NMN
NMND
NMNH
NMNHS
NMNS
NMNZ
NMP
NMP/NPB
U.S.A.

Nguyen et al. 2009; Sven Kullander pers.
comm. 2010
Imamura 2011
F&E Ferraris 2007
F&E
F&E
China
Japan
U.S.A.
New Zealand
China
F&E
F&E
L&G
L85
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
Germany
Germany
F&E
Switzerland
Switzerland
South Africa
Zimbabwe
L85
L85
L85
Canada
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
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F&E http://www.onefish.org
Germany
Ireland
L85
F&E
F&E
Kenya
L85
F&E
Germany
Taiwan
Taiwan
China
Taiwan
F&E Ferraris 2007; Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
Namibia
F&E
India
L&G
India
L85 L&G
Bulgaria
F&E
F&E
Taiwan
Nguyen et al. 2009
New Zealand
L85
F&E
South Africa
L85
F&E
South Africa
F&E
NMP6V
NMS
NMSA
NMSA
NMSL
NMSU
NMSZ
NMV
NMW
NMWZ
NMZB
NMZB-QVMS
NMZB-UM
NMZL
NOAS
NOCS
NOI
NPIB
NPM
NRCT
NRIBAS
NRM
NRM-PZ
NRMS
NRS/ZSI
NSMC
NSMT
NSMW
NSRL
NSYSU
NSYU
NTM
NTNUB
See MNHP.
National Museum of Singapore; collections now at ZRC
Naturmuseum de Stadt Augsburg, Bayern
See NMP.
National Museum of Sri Lanka, Colombo; also as CMS
New Mexico State University, University Park, New Mexico
National Museums of Scotland [formerly Royal Scottish Museum (-1985)], Edinburgh, Scotland
Museum Victoria [formerly National Museum of Victoria], Melbourne, Victoria; fishes include
catalog numbers preceded by letter "A" (e.g., A2345) as well as R series & straight numerical
system
Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien [=Vienna]
National Museum of Wales, Department of Zoology, Cardiff, Wales
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe [previously National Museum], Bulawayo
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Queen Victoria Memorial Museum collections centralized
to NMZB, Bulawayo
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Umtali Museum (UMZ) collections centralized to NMZB,
Bulawayo
National Museum of Zambia, Livingstone
New Orleans Academy of Science, New Orleans, Louisiana
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, University of Southampton and Natural
Environment Research Council, England [formerly Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS)]
See IOCAS.
Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai
Ncleo em Ecologia e Desenvolvimento Scio-Ambiental de Maca (NUPEM), Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
National Research Council of Thailand, Bangkok
National Research Institute of Biology [formerly Biological Laboratory, Museum], Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet [Swedish Museum of Natural History], Department of Vertebrate
Zoology, Stockholm; current for Recent fishes & herps (NHRM sensu Leviton et al. 1985 not
adopted, NRMS obsolete); alternative abbreviations used for entomology (NHRS) and
invertebrates (SMNH); see also NRM-PZ (paleo fishes & herps)
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet [Swedish Museum of Natural History], Department of Palaeozoology,
Stockholm; collection codes include NRM-PZ C. (Cyclostomata), NRM-PZ P. (Pisces), NRM-PZ B.
(Batrachia), NRM-PZ R. (Reptilia); see also NRM (Recent fishes & herps)
See NRM.
See ZSI/NRS.
Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia
National Museum of Nature and Science [previously as National Science Museum; includes
specimens of former Ueno Museum perhaps referred to as Tokyo Zoological Museum (TZM) in
Leviton et al. (1985) and fishes from National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries
(FSFL/FSFRL)], Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
See MWNH (herps) and SMW.
Natural Science Research Laboratory, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; tissue
collection only; TTU used for specimen collections
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Institute of Marine Biology, Kaohsiung; See also NSYU
National Sun Yat-Sen University, College of Science, Department of Biological Science,
Kaohsiung; See also NSYSU
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory [formerly Northern Territory Museum of Arts
& Sciences], Darwin
National Taiwan Normal University
Czech Republic
Singapore
Germany
South Africa
Sri Lanka
U.S.A.
U.K.
Khler & Gsten 2007

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F&E
F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007
L85
F&E Ferraris 2007
Australia
L85
Austria
U.K.
Zimbabwe
L85
L85
L85 L&G
F&E
Zimbabwe
L&G
Zimbabwe
Zambia
U.S.A.
L&G
L85
L85
U.K.
China
China
F&E
F&E
L85
Brazil
F&E
Thailand
David et al. 2007
China
F&E
Sweden
L&G
F&E
Sweden
Khler & Gsten 2007; Sven Kullander pers.

comm. 2010
Sven Kullander pers. comm. 2010
Sweden
India
Canada
F&E
F&E
L85
Japan
L85
F&E Gleadall 2003; Ho & Shao 2010
Germany
U.S.A.
Salcedo et al. 2011:508
Taiwan
L&G
Taiwan
F&E
F&E
Australia
L85
Taiwan
L85
F&E
NTOU
NTUM
NUFES
NUH
NUMZ
NUOL
NUP
NUPEC
NUPELIA
NUSMBS
NWAFC
NYSM
NYZS
NZCS
NZMS
NZOI
OAM
OC
OCM
ODU
OHG
OIM
OKMNH
OKU
OLL
OM
OMNH
OMNH
ONUZM
OPM
ORI
ORIT
ORSTOM
National Taiwan Ocean University, College of Life Sciences, Institute of Marine Biology, Keelung;
see also TOU-AE and NMMST (questionably same collection)
National Taiwan University, Institute of Zoology, Taipei
Nagasaki University Fisheries Experimental Station, Nagasaki
See VNUH.
Nankai University, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of
Environmental Science, Museum of Zoology, Tianjin
National University of Laos (NUOL), Faculty of Science, Zoological Collection, Vientiane
Coleo Ictiolgica do Ncleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqicultura, Universidade
Estadual de Maring, Paran; see also NUPELIA
Ncleo de Pesquisa e Estudo em Chondrichthyes, Universidade Catlica do Santos, Santos
Ncleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqicultura, Universidade Estadual de Maring,
Maring, Paran; also as NUP
Niigata University, Faculty of Science, Sado Marine Biological Station, Niigata
Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington; split into Northwest
Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) and Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC)
New York State Museum [formerly New York State Geological and Natural History Survey
(18361870); also as "State Collection" in early references to specimens collected during 18361840 surveys and now lost], Albany, New York
Taiwan
Taiwan
Japan
Vietnam
F&E
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L85
F&E
Nguyen et al. 2009
China
F&E
Laos
Nguyen et al. 2010
Brazil
F&E
Brazil
F&E
Brazil
Japan
F&E
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.

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New York Zoological Society [renamed Wildlife Conservation Society in 1993; based at the Bronx
U.S.A.
Zoo], New York, New York; some fishes from historical collection now at AMNH, CAS and USNM.
National Zoological Collection of Suriname, Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Paramaribo;
includes collections formerly at SMP (obsolete)
National Museum of Natural History [formerly National Zoological Museum], Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, Sofia; see also NMNHS [more current]
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute [currently National Institute of Water & Atmospheric
Research (NIWA)], Wellington; fishes possibly sent to NMNZ
See OSUS.
Occidental College, Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Los Angeles, California; also as MLZ
Oberlin College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Old Dominion University, Department of Biology, Norfolk, Virginia
Personal collection of Orlando H. Garrido, Habana
Oceanographic [Institute] Museum, Institute of Oceanogaphy [=Vien Hai Duong Hoc], Vietnam
Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Cau Da, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa
See OMNH.
Osaka Kyoiku University, Department of Arts and Sciences, Division of Natural Sciences, Osaka
Obersterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Obersterreich
Otago Museum, Dunedin
University of Oklahoma, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History [formerly Stovall
Museum], Norman, Oklahoma; currently used for cataloging fishes & herps (also as OMNH-N);
previously proposed abbreviation UOMZ (Leviton et al. 1985) not adopted; alternative
abbreviation OKMNH proposed by Leviton & Gibbs (1988) cited in publications for fishes
Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka
Odessa National University, Zoological Museum, Odessa
Okinawa Prefectual Museum & Art Museum, Naha, Okinawa
Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban
University of Tokyo, Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. Most fish types now at ZUMT.
Institut de Recherche pour le Dveloppement [formerly Office de la Recherche scientifique et
Technique d'Outre-mer]; multiple collections (e.g., Nouma, New Caledonia; Dakar, Senegal;
Trinidad, Bolivia); some collections moved to MNHN
Suriname
Bulgaria
http://nzcs.uvs.edu/About2.htm
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New Zealand
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Cuba
F&E
L85
F&E
L85
F&E
Vietnam
U.S.A.
Japan
Austria
New Zealand
F&E
L&G
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
Janalee P. Caldwell & E. Marsh-Matthews, pers.
comm. 2010; Cashner et al. 2010
U.S.A.
Japan
Ukraine
Japan
South Africa
Japan
France
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L85
L85

F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
OS
OSCMNH
OSM
OSU
OSUM
OSUMNH
OSUMZ
OSUO
OSUS
OUM
OUVC
OWU
PEM
PHGM
PINRO
PMBC
PMF
PMR
PNGM
PNKB
PNM
PPSIO
PRFRI
PSU
PSUA
PSUaa
PU
PUM
PVL
QAMS
QM
QMB
QP
QPM
QSMI
QVM
QVMS
QVMT
RAM
Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corvallis, Oregon; current for
U.S.A.
fishes, includes all specimens formerly at OSUO; also as OSU (obsolete); see OSUMNH for herps.
See OSUMNH.
Ohio State University, Museum of Biological Diversity, Museum of Zoology, Columbus, Ohio; also
as OSUM (obsolete)
See OS (fishes) & OSUMNH (herps).
See OSM.
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; current for herps; also as OSU & OSCMNH (both
obsolete); see OS for fishes
See OSUS.
Oregon State University, School of Oceanography, Corvallis, Oregon; obsolete, all fishes
transferred to OS main collection.
Oklahoma State University, Department of Zoology, Stillwater, Oklahoma; also as OAM, OSUMZ
(both obsolete)
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Ohio University, Vertebrate Collection, Athens, Ohio
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
Port Elizabeth Museum, Bayworld, Port Elizabeth
Penlee House Gallery and Museum [formerly Penzance Museum, Penzance Natural History and
Antiquarian Society], Penzance, England
[Knipovich] Polar Research Institute for Sea Fisheries and Oceanography, Murmansk
Phuket Marine Biological Centre, Phuket
See ZZSZ
Prirodoslovni muzej [alternatively Rijeka Museum of Natura History], Rijeka
National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby
Science Research Centre collection, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Bo Trach, Quang Binh
National Museum of the Philippines [formerly Philippine National Museum], Manila, Luzon; also
as PNMI
See IORAS.
Pearl River Fishery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences [formerly Fishery
Experimental Station Canton (FESC), Fish College South China Normal University (FCSCNU)],
Guangzhou, Guangdong
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University at Altoona, Altoona, Pennsylvania; also as PSUaa
See PSUA.
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Universita di Pisa, Pisa
Coleccin de Paleontologa de Vertebrados del Instituto Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumn,
Tucumn; current for fossils; see FML for Recent fishes
Qujing Aquatic Management Station, Qujing, Yunnan; also as YQAMS
Queensland Museum, Centre for Biodiversity, Brisbane, Queensland; also as QMB
See QM.
National Parks and Wildlife Division, Queensland
Ministre du Tourisme de la Chasse et de la Pche, Montreal, Quebec
Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok
See QVMT
Queen Victoria Memorial Museum, Harare [formerly Salisbury]; deleted in Leviton & Gibbs 1988
(collections centralized in NMZB-QVMS, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe)
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta
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U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Stevan J. Arnold pers. comm. 2010

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F&E Gilbert 1998
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
F&E
F&E
U.S.A.
Stevan J. Arnold pers. comm. 2010
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
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F&E Brian Sidlauskas pers. comm. 2010
U.S.A.
L85
F&E Gilbert 1998
U.K.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
South Africa
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L85
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F&E
U.K.
Russia
Thailand
Croatia
Croatia
Papua New Guinea
Vietnam
Philippines
F&E
L&G
L85 L&G
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
David et al. 2007
Russia
F&E
China
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Italy
L85
F&E
Nguyen et al. 2009
David et al. 2007
L85
L85
F&E
Bogan & Agnolin 2009; Azpelicueta & Cione
2011
Argentina
China
Australia
Australia
Australia
Canada
Thailand
Australia
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
L85
David et al. 2007
F&E
Zimbabwe
L85 L&G
Australia
Canada
L85
F&E
Mark Steinhilber pers. comm. 2010
RBCM
RC
RCSE
RCSL
RFI
RGUMF
RHLCY
RHS
Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria; current, replacement for BCPM

Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Surgeon's Hall Museums, Edinburgh, Scotland
Royal College of Surgeons, Hunterian Museum, London, England
Robert F. Inger personal collection; herps deposited at NHMT
Rajiv Gandhi University Museum of Fishes, Rono Hills, Itanagar
See HRA.
See HRA.
Research Institute for Aquaculture no. 1 [alternatively as Research Institute for Aquaculture at
Hanoi], Dinh Bang, Tu Son, Bac Ninh; also as ARI, RIAH
Canada
U.S.A.
U.K.
U.K.
Thailand
India
China
China
RIA2
Research Institute for Aquaculture no. 2, Ho Chi Minh City [formerly Saigon]
Vietnam
RIA3
Research Institute for Aquaculture no. 3, Nha Trang, Khnh Ha

Research Institute for Aquaculture at Hanoi [alternatively Research Institute of Aquaculture no.
1]; also as RIA no. 1, RIA1; Contains types of Nguyen & Doan 1969
Research Institute of Freshwater Fisheries, Liaoning
Research Laboratory of Ichthyology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok; curated by Prachya
Musikasinthorn; separate from KUMF
Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montral, Quebec
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research; also as RMB; Collection moved to the National Museum
of Singapore in 1986
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis [merger of NaturalisNationaal Natuurhistorisch
Museum (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie), Zoological Museum Amsterdam
(ZMA), and branches of National Herbarium of the Netherlands], Leiden; ZMA collections
ultimately to be transferred from Amsterdam to Leiden; fishes cataloged as RMNH.PISC.
Royal Naval Hospital Gillingham, Medical Museum, Chatham, London, England; Collection
whereabouts unknown, probably donated in part to BMNH.
Royal Ontario Museum, Department of Natural History, Toronto, Ontario
Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rhodes University and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, J.L.B. Smith Institute of
Ichthyology, Grahamstown; renamed SAIAB.
Royal United Service Museum, Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London, England;
Collection whereabouts unknown, probably donated in part to BMNH
Vietnam
Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E Darshan et al. 2011
F&E
F&E
http://www.ria1.org/fibozopa/uni/home/index.p
hp?disp_id=7&lang=en&id_partners=3
http://www.ria1.org/fibozopa/uni/home/index.p
hp?disp_id=7&lang=en&id_partners=4
http://www.ria3.org.vn/
Vietnam
F&E
China
F&E
Thailand
F&E Havird & Page 2010
SABS
St. Andrews Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. Andrews, New Brunswick
Canada
SACON
SADC/GEF
SAHIMEL
Slim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Southern African Development Community, Global Environment Facility, Gaborone
See SSOFM.
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, [formerly Rhodes University, J.L.B. Smith
Institute of Ichthyology (RUSI)], Grahamstown
South African Museum, Cape Town
South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia
Sultan Alam Shah Museum [formerly Selangor State Museum (1887-1974), SSMKL], Shah Alam,
Selangor
Southern Arkansas University, College of Science and Technology, Department of Biology,
Magnolia, Arkansas
Sichuan Agricultural University, Life and Physical Science College, Chengdu, Sichuan
See MUS.
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California
Personal collection of F. Kk, Eirdir Su rnleri Fakultesi, T.C. Sleyman Demirel niversitesi,
Isparta
India
Botswana
Japan
http://www2.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sabs/SABSSBSA/SABS_Contact-eng.html
F&E Manimekalan & Das 1998
F&E
F&E
South Africa
F&E
RIA1
RIAH
RIFFL
RLIKU
RM
RMBR
RMNH
RNHG
ROM
RSM
RUSI
RUSM
SAIAB
SAM
SAMA
SASM
SAU
SAUS
SBM
SBMNH
SCFK-SDU
F&E Gavin Hanke pers. comm. 2010

L85
F&E
F&E
Vietnam
Canada
David M. Green pers. comm. 2011
Singapore
Netherlands
F&E
L85
U.K.
F&E
F&E
Canada
U.K.
L85
L85
F&E
South Africa
L85
F&E
U.K.
South Africa
Australia
Khler & Gsten 2007; Nguyen et al. 2009; Jan

Mol & Ronald de Ruiter pers. comm. 2010
F&E
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
Malaysia
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E
China
Malaysia
U.S.A.
F&E
F&E Ng et al. 2000; Ferraris 2007; Ng & Lim 2008
Turkey
L85
F&E
SCI-CLT
SCMRI
SCMRRI
SCN
SCNU
SCSFRI
SCUM
SDSNH
SDSU
SEKPB
SFC
SFRS
SFSU
SFU
SHML
SIBAC
SIO
SIU
SIUC
SIUE
SJSU
SLU
SM
SMAG
SMBL
SMBU
SMEC
SMF
SMK
SMLVO
SMMP
SMNH
SMNH
SMNH
SMNK
SMNS
SMP
SMS
See SCI.
South Carolina Marine Resources Research Institute, Charleston, South Carolina; replaced by
SCMRRI (Leviton & Gibbs 1988)
South Carolina Marine Resources Research Institute, Charleston, South Carolina; replacement
for SCMRI (sensu Leviton et al. 1985)
Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales "La Salle", Museo de Historia Natural "La Salle"; replaced by
MHNLS
See DBSCNU.
South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Science, Guangzhau;
Same institution as DBSCNU, but separate collection
Sichuan University Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan
San Diego Society of Natural History, San Diego Natural History Museum, Balboa Park, San
Diego, California
San Diego State University Museum of Biodiversity, San Diego, California; also as UC in regional
papers
Sevastopol Experimental Design Bureau for Underwater Investigation, Sevastopol
Laboratory of Fishes, Shanghai Fisheries University [formerly College], Shanghai; also as SFU
Sea Fisheries Research Station, Haifa
San Francisco State University, Vertebrate Museum, San Francisco, California
See SFC.
Sandy Hook Marine Laboratory [destroyed by fire in 1985; rebuilt as James J. Howard Marine
Sciences Laboratory], National Marine Fisheries Service, Highlands, New Jersey
Southwest Institute of Biology, Chengtu
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Vertebrate Collection, La Jolla, California
See SIUC
Southern Illinois University, Department of Zoology, Carbondale, Illinois
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois; obsolete for fishes, specimens transferred to
INHS and SIUC
San Jose State University, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, San Jose, California
Southeastern Louisiana University, Museum of Biology, Hammond, Louisiana
See SMK.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill, Southland
Kyoto University, Seto Marine Biology Laboratory, Wakayama Prefecture; fishes transferred to
FAKU, some lost.
Strecker Museum [moved to Mayborn Museum Complex], Baylor University, Waco, Texas;
replacement for BU (Baylor University)
Sabah Museum, Elasmobranch Collection, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; See also MUS
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum [alternatively Senckenberg Research
Institute and Natural History Museum], Frankfurt
Sarawak Museum, Kuching; also as SM.
Tokai University Subtropical Marine Laboratory, Iriomoto Island, Okinawa
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota (paleo)
Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, Regina, Saskatchewan
See SNHM.
See NRM.
Staatliches Museum fr Naturkunde, Karlsruhe [Karlsruher Naturkundemuseum], Karlsruhe;
formerly LNK, Landessammlungen fr Naturkunde Karlsruhe
Staatliches Museum fr Naturkunde, Stuttgart; also as MNS
Surinaams Museum, Paramaribo; obsolete, transferred to NZCS.
Swakopmund Museum, Swakopmund
India
F&E
U.S.A.
L85 L&G
U.S.A.
L&G
Venezuela
L85
F&E
China
F&E Ferraris 2007
China
F&E
China
Bain et al. 2009
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
L85
Ukraine
China
Israel
U.S.A.
China
F&E
L&G
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
China
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
L85
L85
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Malaysia
New Zealand
L85
L85
Japan
L85
U.S.A.
L85
L85 L&G
http://sh.nefsc.noaa.gov/labhist.htm
F&E
F&E
F&E
Brooks Burr pers. comm. 2010
F&E
F&E
Malaysia
F&E
Gilbert 1998
F&E
Germany
L85
Malaysia
Japan
U.S.A.
Canada
China
Sweden
L85
L85

Gilbert 1998
L85
David et al. 2007
F&E
Germany
Germany
Suriname
Namibia
L85
L85
L85
http://www.smnk.de/SMNK/02-0-ForschungI.html
F&E Jay Savage pers. comm. 2010
SMU
SMW
SMWN
SMWU
SNC
SNCBSH
SNHM
SNHMB
SNHMK
SNM
SNMB
SNMBR
SNMNH
SNU
SNUIZ
SoS
SPKCES
SPNRI
SRI
SRS/ZSI
SRSU
SSCN
SSM
SSMKL
SSOFM
SSU
STL
STRI
STUM
SU
SUB
SUF
SUM
SWFC
SWUF
SYSU
SZN
Sangmyung University [formerly Sangmyung Women's University], College of Natural Sciences,

Life Science, Seoul; also as SMWU, EWNHM.
Staatliches Museum, Wiesbaden (changed to Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlung, Museum
Wiesbaden in Leviton & Gibbs 1988); currently Museum Wiesbaden, Naturhistorische
Landessammlung, Wiesbaden; also as MWNH and NSMW (both herps)
State Museum, Windhoek
See SMU.
Sichuan Normal University [formerly College], Chengdu, Sichuan
State of North Carolina Biological Station, Highlands, North Carolina
Shanghai Natural History Museum, Huangpu, Shanghai; also as SMNH
Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum [formerly Herzogliches Naturhistorisches Museum (18571918)], Braunschweig; formerly NMB, also as SNMBR, SNMB (latter abbreviation occupied)
Sudan Natural History Museum, Khartoum
See SNMB.
Slovak National Museum [Slovensk nrodn mzeum], Natural Science Museum, Bratislava;
also as SNHM, SNM (SNM-RY for fishes).
Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum [formerly Herzogliches Naturhistorisches Museum (18571918)], Braunschweig; formerly NMB, also as SNHMB, SNMB (latter abbreviation occupied)
National Museum [alternatively as Saudi Arabian National Museum], Department of Natural
History, Riyadh
Seoul National University, Korea Bio-MAX Institute, Seoul; also as KIU
Shaanxi Normal University, College of Life Sciences, Department of Zoology, Xi'an, Shaangxi
See JM.
See MSUMNH
Sichuan Provincial Natural Resources Research Institute, Chengdu, Sichuan
Serengeti Research Institute, Seronera
See ZSI/SRS.
Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas
Museum of the Biological Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing
Savannah Science Museum, Savannah, Georgia
Selangor State Museum, Kuala Lumpur; Collection destroyed in 1945, but some Duncker
specimens survived in BMNH (Alfred 1963:165); See also SASM.
Shimane Nature Museum of Mt. Sanbe [formerly Sanbe Shizenkan Open Field Museum],
Shimane; also as SAHIMEL
Sacramento State University, Department of Biological Science, Museum of Natural History,
Sacramento, California; designation as SSU acknowledged via museum website (2010)
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancn
Santo Tomas University, Museum, Manila
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; also as LSJUM; Fishes transferred to CAS (CAS-SU)
with 100,000 added to each SU catalog numbers for computerization
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn, Institut fr Zoologie, Sammlung der Universitt,
Bonn
Incorporated Administractive Agency National Fisheries University [formerly Shimonoseki
University of Fisheries (1963-1994) among others], Shimonoseki
Stellenbosch University, John R. Ellerman Museum of Zoology [Resource Centre], Cape Town
Southwest Forestry University [formerly College], Kunming; also as SWUF
See SWFC
Sun Yat-sen University Museum [formerly Chung-Shan University Museum], Chung-shan,
Guandong
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
South Korea
F&E
Germany
L85 L&G
Namibia
South Korea
China
U.S.A.
China
L85
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
Germany
L&G
Sudan
Slovakia
Slovakia
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E Ferraris 2007; Holk & Hensel 1974
Germany
F&E
Saudi Arabia
F&E
South Korea
China
Germany
India
China
Tanzania
India
U.S.A.
China
U.S.A.
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007
L85
F&E
L85
F&E
L85
Malaysia
F&E
Japan
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
Panama
Philippines
L85
L85
http://www.csus.edu/bios/#Vertebratemuseum
Williams et al. 2007
U.S.A.
F&E
F&E
Germany
L85
F&E
Japan
L85
F&E
South Africa
China
China
L85
F&E
F&E
China
Italy
F&E
L85
TABL
TAFIRI
TAIC
TAMAR
TAU
TCWC
TDHSP
TFDA
TFMC
TFRI
THUP
TIFC
TINRO
TISTR
TIU
TKPM
TM
TMBS
TMBU
TMF
TMFE
TMH
TMP
TMP
TNHC
TNHM
TNZ
TOU-AE
TSMHN
TTU
TU
TUFIL
Tropical Atlantic Biological Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, Virginia Key, Miami,
Florida; fishes transferred to UF, some to USNM, ANSP
Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute [formerly East African Freshwater Fisheries Research
Organization (EAFFRO)], Mwanza Center, Mwanza
Texas A&M University, John E. Conner Museum, Kingsville, Texas
Projeto Tamar, So Joo da Mata, Bahia (fishes)
Tel Aviv University, National Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv; also as UTAI
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Truong Dai Hoc Su Pham, University of Pedagogy, Zoological Collection, Ho Chi Minh City
Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority, Hobart, Tasmania
Museo de la Naturaleza y del Hombre, Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Canary Islands
Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute [descended in part from Freshwater Aquaculture Experiment
Station, Hsiaoli and Marine Aquaculture Experiment Station, Taiwan], Chilung; also as FRIP
Tunghai University, Science College, Department of Life Science, Systematics and Evolutionary
Biology Laboratory [formerly Department of Zoology], Taichung
Tasmanian Inland Fisheries Commission, Hobart, Tasmania
Marine Museum of Pacific Fisheries Research Center [previously as Pacific Ocean Research
Institute for Sea Fisheries and Oceanography], Vladivostok [=Vladyvostok]; current for fishes &
herps; for fishes also as TINRO-tsentr P (current) and MT (obsolete).
Thailand Institute for Scientific and Technological Research, Ministry of Science and Technology,
Bangkok
Tokyo Imperial University, Science College Museum, Tokyo
Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Tokushima
See TMP (Transvaal Museum)
Tatsuo Tanaka Memorial Biological Laboratory, Ako, Miyake-jima, Izu Islands; lab closed,
collection transferred to NSMT
Tilkamanjhi Bhagalpur University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Museum,
Bhagalpur, Bihar
See NMMB.
Elasmobranchii Collection, Department of Fisheries, School [=Faculty/College] of Marine Science
and Technology, Tokai University, Shimizu City; see also TUMF.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta (paleo fishes and herps)
Transvaal Museum of Natural History, Northern Flagship Institution, Pretoria, Transvaal; fish
types at AMG; also as TM
Texas Natural History Collections, Texas Natural Science Center, Texas Memorial Museum,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; University of Texas at Austin sometimes incorrectly
associated with abbreviation UTA, University of Texas at Arlington (e.g., Schleip & O'Shea 2010)
University of Texas, Austin, Texas; deleted in Leviton & Gibbs 1988 (non-existent collection, refer
to TNHC)
Tianjin Natural History Museum [formerly Muse Hoang-ho Pai-ho], Tianjin
National Taiwan Ocean University, Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Agriculture; also
as NTOU
Teylers Strichtina Museum, Haarlem
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; herps now at TNHC; see also NSRL (tissue
collection only)
Tulane University Museum of Natural History [formerly F. Edward Hebert Riverside Research
Laboratories (fishes)], Belle Chasse, Louisiana
Tokyo University of Marine Sciences and Technology, Ichthyological Laboratory [formerly Imperial
Fisheries Institute (IFI), Tokyo University of Fisheries], Tokyo
U.S.A.
F&E
Tanzania
F&E
U.S.A.
Brazil
Israel
U.S.A.
Vietnam
Australia
L85
Carvalho-Filho et al. 2010
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
Spain
F&E
Taiwan
L85
F&E
Taiwan
L85
F&E
Australia
L85
Russia
L&G
Thailand
F&E
Cheblukov et al. 2007; Ivankova 2007; Vladimir

E. Kharin pers. comm. 2010
F&E
Japan
Japan
South Africa
L85
Japan
L85
F&E
Ferraris 2007
F&E
India
F&E
Taiwan
F&E
Japan
F&E
Australia
Canada
L85
F&E
South Africa
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
F&E Schleip & O'Shea 2010
U.S.A.
L85 L&G
Michael Newbrey pers. comm. 2010
China
F&E
Taiwan
F&E
Netherlands
L85
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
L85 L&G
F&E
Japan
L85
F&E
Taggart et al. 2006
TUMF
TZM
UAA
UAB
UABC
UABCS
UACI
UAG
UAG
UAHC
UAIC
UAIC
UAJ
UALVP
UAM
UAMNH
UAMZ
UANL
UAZ
UAZM
UBC
UBD
UBI
UBJTL
UBL
UBMZ
UC
UCB
UCBL
UCC
UCD
UCDZ
UCFP
Department of Fisheries, School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University, Shimizu
City; see also TMFE, MSM
Tokyo Zoological Museum, Tokyo; obsolete, according to Gleadall (2003:375) TZM may refer to
former Ueno Museum, specimens from which are now at NSMT.
Universidad Autnoma de Aguascalientes, Museo de Zoologa, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
Universidad Autnoma de Barcelona, Facultad de Biocincies, Departamento de Biologa,
Zoologa, Bellaterra, Barcelona
Japan
Japan
Tominaga & Kubota 1972

L85
Gleadall 2003
Mexico
Spain

L85
F&E
Castro-Aguirre et al. 2002; Garca-Ramrez et
al. 2007
Mexico
Universidad Autnoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California; also as CI-UABC (for fishes)
Universidad Autnoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur; also as MZUABCS
Mexico
(fishes)
Universite Nationale de Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan; replacement for UAIC (sensu Leviton et al. 1985) Cte d'Ivoire
Centre Universite de Antilles-Guyane, Laboratoire de Biologie et Physiologie Animales,
Guadaloupe
See COHERP-UAG.
University of Alabama Herpetological Collection, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Universite Nationale de Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan; obsolete, replaced by UACI (Leviton & Gibbs
1988)
University of Alabama Ichthyological Collection, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; replacement for ALA
(sensu Leviton et al. 1985)
University of Alaska at Juneau
University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Alberta, Department of
Biological Sciences, Edmonton, Alberta; see also UAMZ for modern fishes & herps
University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, Alaska
See AL.
University of Alberta, Museum of Zoology, Edmonton, Alberta; see also UALVP for paleo
collections
Universidad Autnoma de Nuevo Len, Facultad de Ciencias Biolgicas, Departamento de
Zoologa de Vertebrados, San Nicols de los Garza [also as Monterrey], Nuevo Len; also as FCB
(obsolete)
University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, Arizona; also as
UA
bo Akademi University, Zoological Museum, Turku
University of British Columbia, Cowan Vertebrate Museum [part of Beaty Biodiversity Museum],
Vancouver, British Columbia
Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Brunei Darussalam
University of Basrah, Marine Science Center, Basrah
Universidad de Bogot Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Seccional Bogot, Bogot
Universit du Bnin, Lome
Universitat [Universidad] de Barcelona, Facultad de Biologa, Museo de Zoologa, Barcelona
University of Chicago, Walker Museum; obsolete, Walker Museum incorporated into FMNH; see
FMNH UC and FMNH UR.
University of California, Department of Zoology, Berkeley, California; fishes (teaching collection)
transferred to CAS.
Universit Claude Bernard Lyon 1, IFR 41 Bio Environnement et Sant, Lyon
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
University of California, College of Biological Sciences, Davis, California
University of Calcutta, Faculty of Science, Department of Zology, Fish Laboratory, Kolkata
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Philosophy [alternatively Cambridge Philosophical Institute],
Cambridge, England
French West Indies
L&G
L85
Mexico
U.S.A.
Cte d'Ivoire

Leslie Rissler pers. comm. 2010
L85 L&G
U.S.A.
L&G
U.S.A.
L&G
F&E
Canada
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
F&E
Canada
L85
F&E
Mexico
L85
F&E Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992; Gilbert 1998
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
Finland
Canada
Brunei
Iraq
Colombia
Togo
Spain
F&E
L85
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
France
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
India
U.K.

L85
Carol Spencer pers. comm. 2010

F&E
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
UF-FSU
UFAC
University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

[formerly Biology], Los Angeles, California; much of fish collection now at LACM
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado
University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley [part of Berkeley Natural History
Museums consortium (BNHM)], California; museum separate from MVZ.
Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad del Cauca, Popayn; also as MHNUC
Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Biologa, Museo de Zoologia, Departemento de Biologa,
San Jose
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Universidad de Oriente, Cumana, Estado Sucre
Universidad de Oriente, Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas, Nucleo de Nueva Esparta, Isla
Margarita
University of Dar Es Salaam, Dar Es Salaam
Laboratrio de Ictiologia, Departamento de Cincias Biolgicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira
de Santana, Feira de Santana
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Museu de Histria Natural, Maputo
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcntara Gomes, Vila
Isabel, Rio de Janeiro; Pz.UERJ used for Paleozoological Collection
University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History [formerly Florida State Museum (FSM)],
Gainesville, Florida; also as FLMNH (obsolete for fishes & herps)
See FSU.
Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco (paleo)
UFBA
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador; also as MZUFBA
Brazil
UFC
Laboratrio de Cincias do Mar, Centro de Cincias, Universidade Federal do Cear, Fortaleza

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Instituto de Cincias Biolgicas, Departamento de
Zoologia, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Laboratrio de Cincias do Mar, Recife
Universidade Federal do Par, Belm, Par
Departamento de Sistemtica e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraba, Joo Pessoa, Paraba
Universidade Federal do Piau, Teresina, Piau
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden-Wrttemburg
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia; current, replacement for
DZUFRGS (obsolete).
See MNRJ.
Centro de Cincias Biolgicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande
do Norte
Universidade Federal de Rondnia, Porto Velho, Rondnia; current for fishes (as UFRO-I)
See UG/CSBD
University of Guyana, Center for the Study of Biological Diversity, Georgetown; also as HA or
CSBD no. HA (herps), UG
University of Ghana, Accra, Legon
University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens, Georgia; also as UG
(obsolete) and GMNH
University of Guam [Unibetsedat Guahan], College of Natural and Aplied Sciences, Western
Pacific Tropical Research Center [formerly Marine Laboratory], Mangilao; also as UTIO
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; fish types transferred to BPBM and some to USNM
University of Ibadan [alternatively Nigerias Premier University], Faculty of Science, Zoological
Institute, Ibadan; also as ZM/UI
University of Idaho, Museum of Natural History, Moscow, Idaho
Brazil
UCLA
UCM
UCMP
UCP
UCR
UCS
UDO
UDONECI
UDSM
UEFS
UEMM
UERJ
UF
UFJF
UFP
UFPA
UFPB
UFPI
UFR
UFRGS
UFRJ
UFRN
UFRO
UG
UG/CSBD
UGA
UGAMNH
UGM
UH
UI
UIM
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
Carol Spencer pers. comm 2010
Colombia
L85
Costa Rica
L85
U.S.A.
Venezuela
L85
L85
Venezuela
L85
Tanzania
L85
Brazil
F&E
F&E
F&E
Mozambique
L85
Brazil
L85
F&E Figueiredo 2009
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
Brazil
L85
F&E
Lundberg et al. 2009
Carvalho-Filho et al. 2010; A. Carvalho-Filho
F&E
pers. comm. 28 Sep 2010
F&E
Brazil
F&E
Brazil
Brazil
Brazil
Brazil
Germany
L85
Brazil
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E Luiz Malabarba pers. comm. 2010
Brazil
F&E
Brazil
F&E
Brazil
Guyana
F&E
Luiz J. de Queiroz pers. comm. 2010
Guyana
Ferraris 2007
Ghana
L85
U.S.A.
L85
F&E Gilbert 1998; Taggart et al. 2006
Guam
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E
Nigeria
L85
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
UIMNH
UIS
UJZM
UKEN
UKS
UL
ULAB
ULAM
ULIZ
ULL
ULM
UMA
UMB
UMBC
UMIM
UMKC
UMKL
UMM
UMML
UMMP
UMMZ
UMNH
UMO
UMOC
UMP
UMRC
UMS
UMSNH
UMSS
UMVP
UMZ
UMZC
UN
UNAH
UNAL
UNAM
UNAM-CNPE
UNAP
UNC
University of Illinois Museum of Natural History, Urbana, Illinois; many collections (e.g.,
herpetology, ichthyology) curated at INHS
Universidad Industrial de Santander, Departamento de Santander; UIS-T (fishes)
University of Jordan, Zoological Museum, Amman
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
University of Khartoum, Natural History Museum, Khartoum
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky; obsolete, fishes transferred to SIUC, herps also
transferred to other institution
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogot
Universidad de Los Andes, Mrida
Universitt Leipzig, Institut fr Zoologie, Zoologische Lehrsammlung, Leipzig, Sachsen
University of Louisiana at Lafayette [formerly University of Southwestern Louisiana], Louisiana;
previously as USL (obsolete)
Univesity of Lucknow Museums, Lucknow, Utar Pradesh
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
berseemuseum [formerly Gesellschaft Museum (1783-1896); Stdtisches Museum fr Natur-,
Vlker- und Handelskunde (1896-1951)], Bremen
University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture, Lilongwe
Univeristy of Miami, College of Arts and Sciences, Division of Biology, Ichthyological Museum,
Coral Gables, Florida; no longer exists, specimens mostly to USNM, UMML (UMML now mostly at
UF)
University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
University of Montana, Zoology Department, Missoula, Montana
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science [formerly Marine
Laboratory], Miami, Florida
University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Ann Arbor, Michigan (paleo)
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; replaces UU (sensu
Leviton et al. 1985)
University of Maine, Department of Zoology, Orono, Maine
University of Missouri, Museum of Zoology, Columbia, Missouri; also as UMoMZ (obsolete)
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
University of Miami Reference Collection, Biology Department, Coral Gables, Florida
University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi
See CPUM.
Universidad Mayor de San Simn, Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnologia, Centro de Biodiversidad,
Zoologa, Laboratorio de Ictiologa, Cochabamba
U.S.A.
L85
Colombia
Jordan
U.S.A.
Sudan
L85
L85
L85
U.S.A.
L85
Colombia
Colombia
Germany
L85
L85
F&E Castellanos-Morales 2008
Brooks Burr pers. comm. 2010
F&E
U.S.A.
James Albert pers. comm. 2010
India
U.S.A.
L85
Germany
L85
Kammerer et al. 2005

F&E
Malawi
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E
U.S.A.
Malaysia
U.S.A.
L85
L85
L85
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
Gilbert 1998; Ferraris 2007
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Australia
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Mexico
L&G
L85
L85
L85
L85
L85
Bolivia
F&E
University of Minnesota, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (paleo) U.S.A.
Umtali Museum; deleted in Leviton & Gibbs 1988 (renamed Mutare Museum, zoological
collections removed to NMZB-UM, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe)
University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England; also as ZMC
University of Nebraska, Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln; replaced by UNSM (Leviton & Gibbs
1988)
Universidad Nacional Autnoma, Departamento de Biologa, Ciudad Universitaria, Tegucigalpa
See AL
See CNPE-IBUNAM (fishes), CNAR (herps).
See CNPE-IBUNAM.
Universidad Nacional de la Amazona Peruana, Iquitos
University of North Carolina, Institute of Marine Sciences, Morehead City, North Carolina
Zimbabwe
F&E Gilbert 1998
Gilbert 1998
L85 L&G
U.K.
U.S.A.
L85 L&G
Honduras
U.S.A.
Mexico
Mexico
Peru
U.S.A.
L85
L85
L85
F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007
Lyons & Mercado-Silva 2004
Sousa & Rapp Py-Daniel
UNCC
UNCW
UND
UNEFM
UNIMAS
UNIR
UNM
UNMF
UNMSM
UNNEC
UNO
UNO
UNOAL
UNOVC
UNR
UNS
UNSM
UNT
UO
UOIO
UOMNH
UOMZ
UP
UPL
UPMSI
UPNG
UPR
UPRM
UPRRP
UR
URB
URIZ
URM
URM-P
USA
USAC
USBCF
University of North Carolina, Zoological Museum, UNCC Station, Charlotte, North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Willmington, Department of Biological Sciences, Wilmington,
North Carolina
University of Natal, Durban
Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda, Coro, Falcn (includes paleo)
University of Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak
See UFRO.
See MSB.
Ubon Rajathanee [=Ubonrajathanee, Ubonratchathani] University Natural History Museum,
Department of Fisheries, Warinchamrap, Ubon Ratchathani
See MUSM.
Coleccin Herpetolgica de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska
See UNOVC.
University of Northern Alabama, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, Florence,
Alabama
University of New Orleans vertebrate collection, Department of Biological Sciences, New Orleans,
Lousiania; also as UNO (obsolete)
University of Nevada, College of Science, Department of Biology, Museum of Biology, Reno,
Nevada; collection transferred to CAS; also as UNMB
University of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln; replaces UN (sensu Leviton et al. 1985)
Universidade Federal [formerly Nacional] do Tocantins, Porto Nacional, Tocantins; also as UFT
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (paleo)
Universidad de Oriente, Instituto Oceanographico, Cumana
University of Oregon, Museum of Natural History, Eugene, Oregon
See OMNH.
See MVUP.
University of the Punjab, Faculty of Science, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Department of Zology, Lahore
Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines in Diliman, Diliman
University of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby; includes material salvaged from KFRS,
Kanudi Fisheries Research Station (G. Allen pers. comm. 2008 in Fricke & Eschmeyer 2010)
University of Puerto Rico, Department of Marine Sciences, Mayagez; also as UPRM
University of Puerto Rico, Department of Marine Sciences, Mayagez; also as UPR
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
University of Richmond, Department of Biology, Richmond, Virginia; obsolete for fishes,
specimens transferred to VIMS in 1993 & NCSM
University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Biology and Marine
Science [formerly Ryukyu University, Department of Zoology], Nishihara, Okinawa; also as URM,
URM-P (fishes)
University of Rhode Island, Department of Zoology, Kingston, Rhode Island
University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa; See URB.
See URB.
University of South Alabama, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences,
Mobile, Alabama
Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela de Biologa, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Ciudad
de Guatemala
United States Bureau of Commercial Fisheries [also as USBF; functions transferred to NOAA],
Biolgical Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; original collection with this abbreviation mostly
now at USNM.
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
L85
South Africa
Venezuela
Malaysia
Brazil
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
F&E
Luiz J. de Queiroz pers. comm. 2010
Alexandra M. Snyder pers. comm. 2010
Thailand
Peru
Argentina
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Chaiwut Grudpan pers. comm. 2010

Cspedez 2003
L85
F&E Gilbert 1998
U.S.A.
F&E Michael Doosey, pers. comm. 2010
U.S.A.
F&E Gilbert 1998
U.S.A.
Vietnam
U.S.A.
Brazil
U.S.A.
Venezuela
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Panama
L85
F&E Gilbert 1998

Nguyen et al. 2009
L&G
F&E
Gilbert 1998
L85
L85
L85 L&G
L85
Pakistan
F&E
F&E
Philippines
F&E
Papua New Guinea
L85 L&G
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
L85
L85
U.S.A.
L85
Japan
L85
U.S.A.
Japan
Japan
L85
L85
U.S.A.
L85
F&E

F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
Guatemala
U.S.A.
David B. Wake pers. comm. 2010

F&E
USBF
USC
USDZ
USF
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Singapore
U.S.A.
UU
UUZM
UV
See USBCF.
University of South Carolina, Baruch Coastal Research Institute, Columbia, South Carolina
University of Singapore, Department of Zoology, Singapore
University of South Florida, Department of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, Florida
United States Bureau of Fisheries [formerly United States Fish Commission], predecessor of
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); Original collection using this abbreviation mostly now
at USNM
See ULL.
University of Southern Mississippi, Museum of Ichthyology, Department of Biological Sciences,
Hatiesburg, Mississippi; also as USMS
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution [formerly United States National
Museum], Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Washington D.C.
University of the South Pacific, Institute of Applied Sciences [formerly Institute of Marine
Resources], Suva
University of the South Pacific, Faculty of Science and Technology, School of Biological, Chemical
and Environmental Sciences, Division of Biology, Suva
University of Tennessee, Department of Zoology, Knoxville, Tennessee; current for fishes &
herps; fish collection formally renamed the David A. Etnier Ichthyological Collection
University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Biology, Texas; Leviton et al. (1985) indicated
"Merriam Museum", relevant subsequent references not found; UTA incorrectly associated with
University of Texas at Austin in Schleip & O'Shea (2010).
See TNHC.
See TAU.
University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Biological Sciences and Centennial Museum,
Laboratory for Environmental Biology [formerly Museum of Arid Land Biology (MALB), Texas
Western College], El Paso, Texas
University of Tulsa, Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental
Policy, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Eberhard-Karls-Universitt Tbingen, Fakultt fr Biologie, Zoologisches Institut, Tbingen,
Baden-Wrttemberg
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; replaced by UMNH (Leviton & Gibbs 1988)
Uppsala University, Zoological Museum; See ZMUU.
Universidad del Valle, Departamento de Biologa, Facultad de Ciencias, Cali; also as CIRUV
UVEBT
Coleccin Ictiolgica, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz
Mexico
UVG
Universidad del Valle, Ciudad de Guatemala

University of Washington, College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences [formerly College of Fisheries],
Seattle, Washington; also as MNHW, UWF
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
See UW.
Richter Museum of Natural History, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin
University of Wyoming, Zoology Museum, Laramie, Wyoming; also as UW (paleo)
University of Wisconsin, Zoology Department, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Museum of Natural History, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum, Madison, Wisconsin
See MPUW.
Unidad de Zoologa Aplicada, Departamento de Ecologa, Consejera de Agricultura y Ganaderia,
Comunidad Autnoma de Madrid, Madrid
See ZMUC.
Guatemala
L85
U.S.A.
L85
USFC
USL
USM
USNM
USP
USPS
UT
UTA
UTA
UTAI
UTEP
UTU
UTZI
UW
UWBM
UWF
UWF
UWGB
UWL
UWM
UWSP
UWZM
UWZM
UZA
UZMK
F&E Gilbert 1998

L85
L85
L85
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
F&E Gilbert 1998

L85
U.S.A.
Michael Doosey, pers. comm. 2010

L&G
U.S.A.
L85
F&E
Fiji
L85
F&E
Fiji
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
L85
U.S.A.
Israel
U.S.A.
F&E

F&E
L85
F&E Art Harris pers. comm. 2010
U.S.A.
F&E
Germany
F&E
U.S.A.
Sweden
Colombia
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
Poland
Bruce Bauer & Sandy Echternacht pers. comm.

2010
L85 L&G
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007
Adam D. Leach pers. comm. 2010
L85
F&E
D.J. Meinhardt, pers. comm. 2006
Gilbert 1998
L85
L85
L85
L85
F&E
Spain
F&E
Denmark
F&E
V/A/ERS
VBCM
VIMS
VIMS-CBL
VIMS-UR
VM
VMM
VMMB
VNIROA
VNMN
VNUH
VSM
VUNH
VUW
WAM
WCUUM
WGRS
WGRS/ZSI
WHOI
WHT
WIAP
WLMH
WLUB
WML
WMSA
WOLL
WPU-PPC
WUM
WUM
WURC
WVBS
XFCFC
YCM
YPM
YQAMS
YU
YUGNIRO
ZDEU
ZDKU
See ERS/ZSI.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Catedra de Vertebrados, Departamento de Zoologa y
Antropologa, Faculdad de Cincias Biolgicas, Madrid
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia; includes fishes formerly cataloged
at CBL (as VIMS-CBL), UR (as VIMS-UR), and Virginia Commonwealth University.
VIMS fish specimens received from Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL)
VIMS fish specimens received from University of Richmond, Virginia (UR) in 1993
Vitenskapsmuseet [Museum of Natural History and Archaeology], University of Trondheim,
Trondheim; also as VSM
Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum [formerly Vanderbilt Marine Museum], Centerport, New York;
most type specimens now at AMNH
Victoria Memorial Museum Building, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa; now part of CMNFI
Kaspiiskogo basseinovogo filiala, VNIRO, Astrakhan
Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Hanoi
Vietnam National University, University of Natural Science, Faculty of Biology, Zoological
Museum, Hanoi; also as CRES, NUH, VUNH
NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet [formerly Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS)],
Norwegian University of Science and Technology [formerly University of Trondheim], Trondheim
See VNUH.
Victoria University, Wellington; deleted in Leviton & Gibbs 1988 (no cataloged collections,
reference material deposited in NMNZ, National Museum of New Zealand)
Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia
West China Union University, Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan
See ZSI/WGFRS.
See ZSI/WGFRS.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Collection transferred to
MCZ.
Wildlife Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka, Colombo
Wistar Institute [formerly Wistar Institute of Anatomy], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Borneo
fishes extant at ANSP
West Lake Museum, Hangzhou, Chekiang
Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Biology, Waterloo, Ontario
World Museum Liverpool [formerly Liverpool Museum], Clore Natural History Centre, Liverpool,
England
Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales
Western Philippines University, Puerto Princesa City Campus, Biological Collection, Puerto
Princesa City
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Cape Province
Wesleyan University, Museum, Middletown, Connecticut
Walailak University, Faculty of Science, Tha Sala District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province
West Virginia Biological Survey, Huntington, West Virginia
Jimei University, Fisheries College [formerly Xiamen Fisheries College], Xiamen, Fujian
Yokosuka City Museum, Yokosuka, Kanagawa
Yale University, Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut; also as BOC
See QAMS.
Yunnan University, Kunming; also as MZYU.
Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Kerch
Zoology Department [also as Sistematik Zooloji Kursusu], Ege Universitesi, Izmir
Kharkiv University, Kharkiv [=Kharkov]
India
F&E
Spain
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
F&E Eric Hilton & Chip Cotton pers. comm. 2010
U.S.A.
U.S.A.

Norway
U.S.A.
L85
Canada
Russia
Vietnam
F&E
F&E
F&E
Nguyen et al. 2009
Vietnam
Norway
David et al. 2007; Truong Nguyen pers. comm.

L85
F&E
New Zealand
L85 L&G
F&E
Australia
China
India
India
L85
L85
F&E
U.S.A.
L85
Vietnam
Nguyen et al. 2009
F&E
F&E
F&E
Sri Lanka
F&E
U.S.A.
F&E
China
Canada
F&E
L85
U.K.
U.S.A.
Australia
F&E
F&E
L85
Philippines
South Africa
U.S.A.
Thailand
U.S.A.
China
Japan
U.S.A.
China
China
Ukraine
Turkey
Ukraine
F&E
L85
F&E
F&E
L85
L85
L85
L85
L85
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
ZIS
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum [formerly Forschungsinstitut und Museum] Alexander Koenig,

Bonn
Zoological Institute, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia [formerly
Armenian Academy of Sciences], Erevan
Zoological Institute, Academia Sinica, Shanghai
See ZIN.
See IZAB.
Zoological Institution Committee, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan
University, Kathmandu; possibly obsolete, see also NHM
See CUP.
See CUP.
Zoologisches Institut, Dresden Technical University, Dresden
Hiroshima University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biological Sciences [formerly Zoological
Institute], Hiroshima; see also IABHU (amphibians)
Zoological Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev; also as ZMUAS, IZANU
See BSKU.
See ZIN.
See ZMH.
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg [formerly Leningrad];
replacement for ZIL (obsolete); also as ZIAS, ZISP
Universitt des Saarlandes, Saarbrcken
ZISP
See ZIN.
Russia
ZIT
ZIUG
ZIUS
ZIUU
ZIUW
ZIUZ
ZLSYU
ZM/UI
Zoological Institute, Grusinian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi

Zoologisches Museum der Georg-August Universitt Gttingen, Gttingen, Niedersachen
Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm
See ZMUU.
Zoologisches Institut, Universitt Wien, Wien
Zoological Institute, Sveuilite u Zagrebu [University of Zagreb], Zagrebu
Zoological Laboratory, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
See UI
Zologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam [alternatively Zoological Museum Amsterdam],
Amsterdam; collections now officially part of Naturalis Museum (RMNH) and ultimately to be
transferred to Leiden
Zoological Museum, Faculty of Science, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andra Pradesh
Museum fr Naturkunde [formerly Zoologischen Museum], Leibniz-Institut fr Evolutions- und
Biodiversittsforschung an der Humboldt-Universitt, Berlin; ZMB current for fishes and herps;
also as ISZZ, ZMHU
Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen Museum, Naturhistorie, Zoologiske, Entomologiske samlinger;
assigned to Vertebrate Section
Department of Biology, Zunyi Medical College, Zhuhai, Guizhou
Zoology Museum, Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala; collection code ZMCC F for fishes
Zoological Museum of Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok [=Vladyvostok]; current for
fishes & herps
Zoologial Museum, Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing; obsolete, now
ASIZB
Zoological Museum Hamburg [Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum; formerly
Zoologisches Institut und Museum], Universitt Hamburg, Hamburg; also as NMH, ZIM
See ZMB.
Zoological Museum, The Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk
Muse de Zoologie [now Muse Cantonal de Zoologie], Lausanne
Georgia
Germany
Sweden
Sweden
Austria
Croatia
China
Nigeria
L85
Netherlands
L85
ZFMK
ZIA
ZIAS
ZIAS
ZIAZ
ZICT
ZICU
ZICUP
ZIDTU
ZIHU
ZIK
ZIKU
ZIL
ZIM
ZIN
ZMA
ZMAU
ZMB
ZMBN
ZMC
ZMCC
ZMFESU
ZMFMIB
ZMH
ZMHU
ZMISU
ZML
Germany
L85
Armenia
L85
China
Russia
Azerbaijan
L85
F&E
Ursula Bott & Wolfgang Bhme, pers. comm.

2010
F&E
F&E
Nepal
F&E Shrestha 1980
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Germany
F&E
L85
Japan
L85
F&E
Ukraine
Japan
Russia
Germany
L85
F&E
F&E
Holk & Hensel 1974
L85 L&G
F&E
Russia
Germany
L&G
F&E

L85
L85
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
F&E Mark-Oliver Rdel, pers. comm. 2010

China
India
F&E
Vincent & Thomas 2011
Cheblukov et al. 2007; Kharin 2005; Vladimir E.
Kharin pers. comm. 2010
Russia
China
Germany
Russia
Switzerland
Jay Savage pers. comm. 2010; Jan Mol pers.

comm. 2010
F&E
Norway
Germany
Ferraris 2007; David et al. 2007; Nguyen et al.

2009
L85
India
Germany
F&E Ferraris 2007
L85
F&E Ferraris 2007

L85
F&E Khler & Gsten 2007; Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E
F&E
ZML
ZMMGU
ZMMSU
ZSI/NRS
See ZMUL.
See ZMMU.
See ZMMU.
Zoological Museum of M.V. Lomonosov State [Mocsow] University [formerly Cabinet of Natural
History, Imperial Moscow University (1791-1930)]; also as MMSU, ZMMGU, ZMMGY, ZMMSU (all
obsolete)
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
S. Janashia State Museum of Georgia, Zoological Section, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi
Zoologiceskogo Muzei (Museum of Zoology), Tomsk State University, Tomsk
See ZMUU.
Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, College of Life Science, Xiamen University [formerly
University of Amoy], Xiamen, Fujian
See ZIK.
Universitetet Bergen, Bergen Museum, Naturhistorie, Zoologiske, Vertebratsamlinger
Kbenhavns Universitet, Zoologisk Museum [Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen],
Vertebrater, Fiskesamlingen, Copenhagen; current for fishes & herps; also seen as UZMK
(obsolete)
Zoologisches Museum der Universitt Heidelburg, Heidelburg, Baden-Wrttemburg
Zoology Museum, University of Hanoi; obsolete, merged into Vietnam National University, Hanoi
(VNUH), in 1993
University of Istanbul, Hydrobiology Museum [old name]; See IUSHM.
Zoologiska museet, Lunds universitet, Lund; also as ZML, MZUL
Musum [Muse] de Zoologie, Facult des Sciences, Departement Biologie des Organismes,
Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles [=Brussels]
Zoologisk Museum, Universitetets i Oslo, Oslo
See ZUMT.
Zoologiska Museet, Uppsala Universitet [Uppsala University Zoological Museum], Uppsala; also
as UUZM, ZIUU, ZMU
See ZMZ.
Zoological Museum, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yangon University [formerly University of
Rangoon], Kamayut Township, Yangon
Zoologisches Museum der Universitt Zrich, Zrich; replacement for ZMUZ (obsolete)
Zanzibar Museum [Nyumba ya Kumbukumbu], Zanzibar
Crdoba Zoo, Crdoba
Zoological Reference Collection, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, National
University of Singapore; also as ZRCS, NUS, USDZ
See ZRC.
See CIB.
Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata [formerly Calcutta]; also as ZSI FF (fishes)
Zoological Survey of India, Arunachal Pradish Field Station, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradish; also
APFS/ZSI
See ZSI/WGFRS.
Zoological Survey of India, Eastern Regional Station, Shillong, Meghalaya; also as ERS/ZSI,
V/A/ERS, ZSI-ERS
Zoological Survey of India, Northern Regional Station, Dehradun, Uttarakhand; also as NRS/ZSI
ZSI/SRS
Zoological Survey of India, Southern Regional Station, Chennai; also as SRS/ZSI, ZSI-SRS, ZSIC India
F&E Ferraris 2007; Pramod et al. 2010
ZSI/WGFR
See ZSI/WGFRS.
India
Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghats Field Research Station, Calicut, Kerala; also as WGRS,
India
WGRS/ZSI, ZSI/WGFR
Zoological Survey of India, Western Ghats Regional Station, Calicut, Kerala
India
F&E
ZMMU
ZMNH
ZMT
ZMTU
ZMU
ZMUA
ZMUAS
ZMUB
ZMUC
ZMUH
ZMUH
ZMUI
ZMUL
ZMULB
ZMUO
ZMUT
ZMUU
ZMUZ
ZMYU
ZMZ
ZMZ
ZOOC
ZRC
ZRCS
ZS
ZSI
ZSI/APFS
ZSI/CLT
ZSI/ERS
ZSI/WGFRS
ZSI/WGRS
Sweden
Russia
Russia
L&G
Russia
China
Georgia
Russia
Sweden
F&E
F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007; Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E
F&E
F&E
F&E
L85
China
F&E
Ukraine
Norway
L85
F&E
F&E
Denmark
L85
F&E
Germany
Vietnam
Turkey
Sweden
Nguyen et al. 2009; Hans Viborg Kristensen

pers. comm. 2011
Akihito & Meguro 1976

F&E
F&E Ferraris 2007
L85
Belgium
F&E
Norway
Japan
L85
F&E Ferraris 2007

F&E Ferraris 2007
Sweden
L85
F&E Ferraris 2007
Switzerland
L85 L&G
Myanmar
Switzerland
Tanzania
Argentina
F&E
L&G

F&E
Singapore
F&E Ng & Kim 2008
Singapore
China
India
F&E
India
L85 L&G
Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E Tamang et al. 2008; Nguyen et al. 2009
F&E
India
Radhakrishnan et al. 2007
India
David et al. 2007
India
F&E Thomson & Page 2006; Ferraris 2007
K.V. Gururaja et al. 2007

Vincent & Thomas 2011
ZSIC
See ZSI/SRS.
Zoological Society of London, London, England; Collection whereabouts unknown, probably
donated in part to BMNH
Zoologische Staatssammlung Mnchen [alternatively as Bavarian State Collection of Zoology;
previously as Zoologisches Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates], Mnchen
Zoologische Museum Staatssammlung, Mnchen [specimens eventually to be transferred to
Indonesian institution].
Zoological Museum, Zoological Survey Department, Government of Pakistan [alternatively as
Zoological Survey of Pakistan], Karachi
Zoologische Sammlung der Universitt Tbingen, Tbingen, Baden-Wrttemburg
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas "Ado Jos Cardoso", Campinas, So
Paulo
Universidad Federal do Esprito Santo, Centro de Cincias Humanas e Naturais, Departamento de
Cincias Biolgicas, Vitria, Espritu Santo
Coleo Zoolgica de Referncia da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande,
Mato Grosso do Sul
Departamento de Zoolgia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de
Janeiro
Department of Zoology, The University Museum [formerly University Storage Center for Research
Materials (19661997)], University of Tokyo [formerly Tokyo Imperial University (TIU)]; includes
material formerly in the Fisheries Bureau of the Imperial Department of Agriculture and
Commerce], Tokyo; Also as ZMUT, MUT, ZIUT, TIU, UMUT, UMUTZ
Coleccin de Zoologa Vertebrados de la Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Repblica [not
Universidad de Montevideo], Montevideo; also as ZVC-P (fishes), ZVC-B (amphibians) & ZVC-R
(reptiles); replaces DZVU (obsolete)
India
ZVCB
See ZVC.
Uruguay
ZVCP
ZVCR
ZVUNRC
ZX
See ZVC.
See ZVC.
Coleccin Herpetolgica de Zoologa Vertebrados, Universidad Nacional de Ro Cuarto, Crdoba
Zhuhai City Fisheries Science Research Institute, Guandong
Zoologijski zavod, Bioloki odsjek, Prirodoslovno-matematiki fakultet, Sveuilita u Zagrebu
[University of Zagreb], Zagreb; also as PMF
Uruguay
Uruguay
Argentina
China
ZSL
ZSM
ZSM/LIPI
ZSP
ZST
ZUEC
ZUFES
ZUFMS-PIS
ZUFRJ
ZUMT
ZVC
ZZSZ
Ferraris 2007
U.K.
Germany
F&E
L85
Germany
Pakistan

F&E
L85
F&E
L85
F&E
Germany
Brazil
Brazil
F&E
Brazil
Marcel Rodrigo Cavallaro pers. comm. 2011
Brazil
Japan
Uruguay
Croatia
L85
F&E Gleadall 2003
F&E
Ral Maneyro & Francisco Kolenc pers. comm.

2012
Maneyro et al. 2008:189; Ral Maneyro pers.
comm. 2012
Cspedez 2003
Ferraris 2007
F&E
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Arratia, G., & H.-P. Schultze
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2009
Bain, R.H., B.L. Stuart, T.Q. Nguyen, J. Che & D.-Q.

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Borodulina, O.D.
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Standard Symbolic Codes for Institutional Resource Collections in Herpetology and Ichthyology

Version 3.0 Compiled by Mark H. Sabaj Prez, 23 February 2012

ZEFOD: information system to botanical and zoological

L85 L&G F&E

Addis Ababa University, Department of Biology

F&E Vanegas-Ros et al. 2011

F&E Tom Trnski and Brian Gill pers. comm. 2010

F&E Ned Gilmore pers. comm. 2010

SOURCE FOR ABBREVIATION

F&E Gilbert 1998; J. Armbruster pers. comm. 2010

F&E Ferraris 2007

Carol Spencer pers. comm. 2010

Bingham Oceanographic Collection, now Yale Peabody Museum (YPM).

Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E Ferraris 2007

Arratia & Schultze 1990

F&E Gilbert 2009

F&E Echelle & Echelle 1978

F&E Houston et al. 2010

F&E Khler & Gsten 2007

Eric Hilton & Chip Cotton pers. comm. 2010

Ral Maneyro pers. comm. 2012

Gudynas et al. 1988:7, Ral Maneyro &

Center of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Karachi

Coleccin Herpetolgica de la Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Posadas; see also LGE

Coleo Herpetolgica da Universidade de Braslia, Braslia

Coleo Ictiolgica, Departmento de Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal do

Coleccin de Ictiologa del Instituto de Biologa de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medelln

Coleo Ictiolgica, Departmento de Ecologia e Recursos Naturalis, Universidade Federal do

Ferreira et al. 2010

Roa-Fuentes et al. 2010

van der Heiden & Plascencia Gonzlez 2005

F&E Nguyen et al. 2009

F&E Ruiz-Campos & Castro-Aguirre 2002

Azpelicueta & Cione 2011

Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992

Oscar Flores-Villela pers. comm. 2010

John Clay Bruner pers. comm. 2010

Hctor Espinosa Prez pers. comm. 2010

Nunes & Piorski 2009

Jay Savage pers. comm. 2010

Coleccin Herpetolgica, Universidad Autnoma de Guadalajara (UAG), Guadalajara, Jalisco; also

Stephen P. Rogers & Amy Henrici pers. comm.

Azpelicueta & Rubilar 1998; Ferraris 2007

Donald Taphorn & Douglas Rodrguez Olarte

F&E Domnguez-Domnguez et al. 2009

F&E Darrel E. Snyder pers. comm. 2010

Wake & Donnelly 2010

Holk & Hensel 1974

John Clay Bruner pers. comm. 2010

Nguyen et al. 2009

Jay Savage pers. comm. 2010

Correa et al. 2008

Direccin General de Fauna Silvestre Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecologa, Coyoacn,

Oscar Flores-Villela pers. comm. 2010

Ral Maneyro pers. comm. 2012

Dong Hai Fishery Research Institute, Dong Hai, Bac Lieu

Estacin de Biologa Marina, Instituto Tecnolgico de Veracruz (ITV).

F&E Ferraris 2007

F&E Luiz Malabarba pers. comm. 2010

Watanabe et al. 2002; Ferraris 2007; Truong

Cabrera & Colantonio 2001:115; Ral Maneyro

Flores-Villela & Hernndez 1992; Daza et al.