Catalog of Fishes Coll. Abbrev.

COLLECTION ABBREVIATIONS

The following text and information are taken directly from the Catalog of Fishes (Eschmeyer et al. 1998:16-22) with additions/corrections appearing in red (source in parentheses).

"Many abbreviations used for specimen collections in Parts I and II are standard ones usually cited in systematic papers on fishes; some are summarized in a list prepared by Leviton et al. (1985). Some have changed, such as ZIL, for Zoological Institute Leningrad, becomes ZISP, Zoological Institute St. Petersburg, with the change in name of the city, and many abbreviations have been added or modified since Leviton et al. In other cases, more than one abbreviation may be in current use for a collection. There are over 400 fish collections containing type specimens. If an abbreviation occurs in Part I or II and does not appear in the list below, then the user is directed to the original literature source. Also, some collections may appear under more than one abbreviation."

Acronym	Description	Fish Collection
ABE	Personal collection of T. Abe; some types are housed at the Tokyo fish market. Collection will be transferred.
ACAP	Aquaculture Center, Aomori, Japan.
AFAQ	Amateur Fisheries Association of Queensland, Australia. Most specimens transferred to Queensland Museum (QM), Brisbane.
AFY	Agust�n Fern�ndez-Y�pez collection. Personal collection; at least some of this collection is at SCN, Venezuela.
AHF	Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California, California, U.S.A. Types incorporated into the LACM collection.
AIM	Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.oALA University of Alabama Museum of Natural History, University, Alabama, U.S.A.
AMG	Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa.
AMNH	American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A.
AMS	Australian Museum, Sydney, N. S. W., Australia.	search
ANSP	Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.	search
ARC	Atlantic Reference Centre, New Brunswick, Canada.
ASIO	Academia Sinica Institute of Oceanology, Quingdao, China.
ASIZB	Academia Sinica Institute of Zoology, Beijing, China.
ASIZP	See ASIZT.
ASIZT	Academia Sinica Institute of Zoology, Taipei, Taiwan. Also seen as ASIZP.
ASU	Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
AUM	Auburn University Museum, Auburn, Alabama, U.S.A.
BAH	Biologische Anstalt Helgoland Marine Station, Helgoland, Germany.
BCFH	Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Honlulu, Hawaii. Much of collection transferred to BPBM.
BCPM	British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria B. C., Canada. Now RBCM = Royal British Columbia Museum.
BCUE	Department of Biology, Ch�ongju University of Education, Korea.
BKNU	Kunsan National University, Department of Biology, Korea.
BLUZ	Museo de Biologia, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela.
BMAM	Beijing Natural History Museum, Beijing, China.
BMNH	Natural History Museum, London. Formerly British Museum Natural History, London. Preferred style BMNH 1945.6.6.3-4, with periods, no colon; year cataloged. month cataloged. day cataloged. specimens.	search
BNHM	Bombay Natural History Museum, Bombay, India.
BOC	Bingham Oceanographic Collection, now Yale Peabody Museum [YPM].
BPBM	Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
BSKU	Kochi University, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kochi, Japan.
BSMP	Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippines. Evidently entire collection destroyed during World War II.
BSNH	Boston Society of Natural History. Surviving specimens now at MCZ.
BSRM	Biological Station Reference Museum at Porto Novo, Annamalai University, India.
BYU	Brigham Young University, Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Provo, Utah, U.S.A.
BZT	Biological Institute Titograd, Yugoslavia.
CAC-CDMB	Ichthyological Collection, Regional Autonomous Corporation for the Defense of the Bucaramanga Plateau (CDMB), Bucaramanga, Colombia
CAS	California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
CAS-IU	Indiana University. Now mostly at CAS and recataloged with CAS numbers.
CAS-SU	See SU [now at CAS].
CAUSC	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Centro de Agrarias, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
CBD	Collezione Ittiologica Balma-Delmastro. Collection of G.A.C Balma and G. B. Delmastro [Torino, Italy].
CBF	Colecci�n Boliviana de Fauna, Museo Nacional de Histoire Natural, Instituto de Ecolog�a, Bolivia.
CBM	Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Japan.
CBSIZA	Caspian Biological Station Institute of Zoology, Azerbijan.
CCB	Central College, Bangalore, India.
CCML	Coleccion Ictiologica del Departamento de Ciencias Marinas de la Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands.
CEMBP	Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology, University of Karachi, Pakistan.
CIB	Academia Sinica, Chengdu Institute of Biology, China.
CIMAR	Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar, Valparaiso, Chile.
CIP	Centro de Investigaciones Pesqueras, Cartagena, Colombia.
CIZ	Centro de Investigaciones Zool�gicas, Chile.
CM	Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Now mostly at FMNH and CAS.
CMC	Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.
CMFRI	See FMRI.
CMK	Personal collection of Maurice Kottelat [Switzerland]. See also ZSM/CMK.
CMNFI	Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa. Same as NMC - National Museums of Canada.
CNRO	Centre National de Recherches Oceanographiques, Nossi-Be, Madagascar.
CNU	Department of Biology, College of Natural Science, Chonbuk National University, Chonju, Korea. Also seen as CNUC.
CNUC	Chonbuk National University, Chonju, Korea. Also seen as CUBK.
CRH	Centre de Recherche en Hydrobiologie, Uvira, Zaire. Also as CRHU.
CRHU	See CRH.
CRRHA	Centre R�gional de Recherches en Hydrobiologie Appliqu�e, Bujumbura, Burandi.
CRS-ZSI	Central Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur, India.
CSIRO	Commonwealth Science & Industrial Research Organization, Division of Marine Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Formerly at Cronulla, Australia, also includes specimens from Marine Lab. Sydney.
CSU	Colorado State University, Colorado Cooperative Fishery Unit, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.
CU	Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A; formerly Cornell University Vertebrate Collections.	search
CUB	Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
CUBK	Department of Biology, Chonbuk National University, Korea. Also seen as CNUC and CUB but not our CUB above.
CUP	Charles University, Division of Hydrobiology and Ichthyology, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
DBCUCH	Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Biolog�a Celular y Genetica, Santiago, Chile.
DBFFEUCS	Departamento de Biolog�a de la Faculdad de Filosof�a y Educaci�n de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
DHISUB	Department of Hydrobiology and Ichthyology, Sofia Univiversity, Bulgaria.
DHMB	Department of Harbours and Marine, Brisbane, Australia. Collection transferred to Queensland Museum (QM), Brisbane, Australia.
DISCA	Estaci�n Biol�gica de Rancho Grande, Ministerio del Ambiente y Recursos Naturales Renovables, Venezuela.
DU	Duke University Vertebrate Collection, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
DVZUT	Department of Vertebrate Zoology, University of T�ng-Hop, Hanoi, Vietnam.
DZSASP	Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, S�o Paulo, Brazil. Formerly Museu Paulista.
DZUFRGS	Departamento de Zoologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
DZUH	Departamento de Zoologia, Universidad de Havana, Cuba.
DZVU	Universidad de Uruguay, Departmento de Zoologia Vertebrados, Montevideo, Uruguay.
EBMC	Universidad de Chile, Estaci�n Biolog�a Marina de Montemar, Chile.
EBMTV	Estaci�n de Biolog�a Marina del Instituto Tecnol�gico de Veracruz, Mexico.
ECSFI	East China Sea Fisheries Institute, Shanghai, China.
EEBP	Esta�ao Experimental de Biologia e Piscicultura de Pirassununga, Brazil.
ENCB	Escuela Nacional Ciencias, Colleccion Herpetozoarios, Mexico.
EPN	Escuela Polytecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.
EUB	Laboratory of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ehime University, Japan.oFAK Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University.
FAKOU	Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi Univerisity, Kochi, Japan. Specimens now in BSKU.
FAKU	Kyoto University, Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Japan. FAKU has several catalog series, including a K, W, and A series. The collection is housed at Maizuru, Japan, not at Kyoto.
FBQ	Fisheries Branch, Departement of Primary Industries, Brisbane, Australia.
FCLR	Fundaci�n Cient�fica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela.
FCRM	Fisheries College Reference Museum, Tuticorin Tamil Nadu, India.
FDNR	Florida Department of Natural Resources, St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A.
FFSUC	Faculty of Forestry Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Ichthyological Collection, Santiago, Chile.
FML	Instituto Fundacion Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina (Leviton et al. 1985:806)
FMNH	Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.	search
FMRI	Central Marine Fisheries Marine Research Institute, Mandapam Camp, India.
FNU	Nagasaki University, Faculty of Fisheries, Nakasaki, Japan.
FOSJ	Fisheries and Oceans Biological Station, St. John�s, Newfoundland, Canada.
FRCL	Fisheries Research Centre, Likas, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
FRIHP	Fisheries Research Institute of Hunan Province, China.
FRLM	Faculty of Fisheries, Mie University, Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie-ken, Japan.
FRSKU	Kyoto University, Fisheries Research Station, Japan. Same as FAKU.
FSFRL	Far Seas Fisheries Research Laboratory, Shimizu, Japan. Most types now at FAKU.
FSU	Florida State Univeristy. Transferred to Florida State Museum, see UF-FSU.
FUMT	University of Tokyo, Department of Fisheries, University Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
GCM	Government College, Department of Zoology, Lahore, Pakistan.
GCRL	Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, U.S.A.
GMBL	College of Charleston, Grice Marine Biological Laboratory, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.
GMNGZ	Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries, Natural History/Zoology, Glasgow, Scotland.
GNHNA	Gallery of Natural History and Native Art, Medlow Bath, New South Wales, Australia.
GNM	See NMG.
GVF	George Vanderbilt Foundation. Specimens now at CAS.
HACW	Department of Fishery, Huazhong Agriculture Collection, Wuhan, China.
HKFRS	Hong Kong Fisheries Research Station, Aberdeen, Hong Kong.
HSU	Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, U.S.A.	search
HUJ	Hebrew University, Department of Zoology, Jerusalem, Israel.
HUMZ	Hokkaido University, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido, Japan.
HZM	Museum of Natural History (Hrvatski Zooloski Muzej), Zagreb, Croatia.
IAA	Instituto Antarctico Argentinao, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
IADIZA	Instituto Argentino de Investigación de Zonas Aridas, Mendoza, Argentina (Fernández & Vari 2002:739)
IAVHP	Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Bogotá, Colombia.
IBAUNC	Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Instituto de Biologia Animal, Medoza, Argentina.
IBH	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Biolog�a, Mexico.
IBRP	Institute for Breeding Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan.
IBTS	Institutul de Biologie, Tr. Savulescu, Bucharest, Romania.
IBUNAM	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Departmento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Mexico, DF, Mexico. Apparently the same as UNAM and IBH.
ICM	Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
ICNMHN	Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot�, Colombia. Also seen as ICNMNH.
IFAN	Institut Fondamental d�Afrique Noire, Dakar, Senegal.
IFI	Imperial Fisheries Institute, Tokyo University of Fisheries. Matsubara�s collection that was transferred to FAKU in 1947, although some specimens were lost, FAKU catalog numbers = Matsubara numbers.
IHASW	Institute Hydrobiology Academy Sinica, Wuhan, China.
IIPB	Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras de Barcelone, Spain.
ILPLA	Museo de La Plata, Instituto de Limnologia, La Plata, Argentina.
IMARPE	Instituto del Mar del Peru, Lima, Peru.
INALI	Instituto Limnologia, Santo Tom�, Argentina.
INHS	Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaigne, Illinois, U.S.A.	search
INIBP	Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Biol�gico Pesqueras, Mexico.
INIP	Instituto Nacional de Investiga�ao das Pescas, Alges, Portugal.
INPA	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.	search
INVEMAR	Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Punta de Betin, Santa Marta, Colombia.
IO	Instituto Oceanogr�fico da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Formerly Instituto Paulista de Oceanografia.
IOAN	See IOM.
IOH	Academia de Ciencias, Instituto de Oceanologia, Habana, Cuba.
IOM	Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
IOPM	Izu Oceanic Park Museum, Izu, Japan.
IORD	Takai University, Institute of Oceanic Research and Development, Shimuzu, Japan.
IOS	Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Surrey, England.
IPN	Instituto Politecnico, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biolog�cas de Mexico, Mexico.
IRSM	Institut Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar.
IRSNB	Institut Royal des Sciences Natureles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium.
ISBB	Institutul de Stiinte Biologice, Bucuresti, Romania.
ISC	Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.
ISER	Institutul Speologie Emil G. Racovita, Bucurest, Romania.
ISH	Universitat Hamburg, Institut f�r Seefischerei, Hamburg, Germany. Citation of catalog numbers perferred by ISH is to use a complete year, i.e. ISF 130/71 becomes 130-1971.
ISTPM	Institut Scientifique et Technique des Peches Maritimes, Nantes, France.
ISU	Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.A.
IU	Indiana University. Now mostly at California Academy of Sciences (CAS).
IZA	Universita di l�Aguila, Instituto di Zoologia, Aquila, Italy.
IZAC	Academia de Ciencias, Instituto de Zoologia, Habana, Cuba.
IZPAN	Zoological Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
IZUA	Universidad Austral de Chile, Instituto de Zoologia, Valdivia, Chile.
IZUCS	Universita di Cagliari, Instituto de Zoologia, Sardinia, Italy.
JNU	Department of Biology, Ji Nan University, China.
KFRS	Kanudi Fisheries Research Station, Konedobu, Papua New Guinea.
KHMM	Kultur Historisches Museum, Magdeburg, Germany.
KIFB	Korean Institute of Freshwater Biology, Seoul, Korea.
KIZ	Kunming Institute of Zoology, Yannan, China.
KMMA	Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, Tervuren. Same as MRAC.oKPM-NI Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Kanagawa, Japan.
KSHS	Kochi Senior High School, Kochi-shi, Japan. Private collection of Yamakawa; specimens have BSKU catalog numbers 50000-79999.
KU	University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.
KUMF	Kasetsart University Museum of Fisheries, Bangkok, Thailand.
LACM	Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
LBN	Lembaga Biologi Nasional, Bogor, Indonesia.
LFBKU	Laboratory of Fishery Biology, Kyushu University, Japan.
LIAIP	Laboratory of Ichthyology, Akasaka Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan.
LICPP	The Crown Prince�s Palace, Laboratory of Ichthyology, Tokyo, Japan
LON	Lembaga Oseanologie Nasional, Djakarta [National Institute of Oceanology], Indonesia.
LS	Linnean Society of London, Piccadilly, London, England.
LSUMZ	Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.
MAC-APU	Ministerio de Agricultura y Cr�a, Estaci�n Experimental Apure, San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela.
MAC-PAY	Ministerio de Agricultura y Cr�a, Estaci�n Experimental Amazonas, Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela.
MACLPI	Ministerio de Agricultura y Cr�a, Secci�n de Pesca Interior y Piscicultura, Venezuela.
MACN	Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Bernardino Rivadavia, Capital Federal, Argentina.
MAMU	University of Sydney, Macleay Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Types are at AMS.
MAPA	Museu Anchieta Porto Alegra, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
MB	Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocage, Lisboa, Portugal.
MBLUZ	Museo de Biología de la Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela (Perez & Viloria 1994)
MBUCV	Universidad Central de Venezuela, Museo de Biologia, Caracas, Venezuela.
MCLSBB	Museo Colegio La Salle Bonanova de Barcelona, Spain.
MCN	Fundacacao Zoobotanica do Rio Grande do Sul, Museu de Ciencias Naturales, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
MCNC	Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Caracas, Venezuela.
MCNG	Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Portuguesa, Venezuela.
MCP	Pontif�cia Universidade Cat�ica do Rio Grande do Sul, Museu de Ci�ncias, Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
MCSNC	Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Carmagnola, Italy.
MCZ	Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.	search
MD	Museo do Dundo, Dundo, Angola.
MDZAU	Museum Deptartment of Zoology, Andhra Univ., India.
MEPAN	Museum of Evolution, Polish Academy of Sciences.
MEPN	Museo Escuela Polit�cnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador. Also as Museo de Biolog�a de la Escuela.
MFA	Museo "Florentino Ameghino", Santa F�, Argentina.
MFLB	Marine Fisheries Laboratory, Bangkok, Thailand.
MFRU	Malawi Fisheries Research Unit, Lake Malawi, Africa. Also seen as MFU.
MG	See MGHNL.
MGAB	Muzeul de Istorie Naturala �Grigore Antipa�, Bucharest, Romania.
MGHNL	Mus�e Guimet d�Histoire Naturelle de Lyon, Lyon, France.
MGHSJ	Matuyama Girl�s High School, Matuyama City, Japan.
MHN-UNC	Departamento de Ictiolog�a del Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot�, Colombia.
MHNG	Museum d�Histoire Naturelle, Geneve, Switzerland.
MHNGA	See MGAB.
MHNI	Museu Hist. Naturales Universidade Federal Minas Gerais, Brazil.
MHNJP	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Museu de Historia Natural �Javier Prado�, Lima, Peru. MUSM sometimes used but not equal to MUSM below.
MHNLR	Museum d�Histoire Naturelle, La Rochelle, France.	search fish types
MHNLS	Museo de Historia Natural de La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela.
MHNM	Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
MHV	Musee de Haute Volta, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta.
MIKU	Marine Biological Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. Specimens now at FAKU.
MLP	Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
MLS	Marine Laboratory Sydney. Now at CSIRO.
MM	Museo del Mar, Bogot�, Colombia.
MMB	Moravsk� Muzeum, Brno, Czech Republic.
MMF	Museu Municipal do Funchal, Funchal, Madeira.
MMG	Museo Marino de la Isla de Gorgona, Colombia. Also seen as MMGPe.
MMNHS	Macedonian Museum of Natural History, Skopje, former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia.
MMNS	Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A.
MMSU	See ZMMU.
MMTT	Muze-ye Melli-ye Tarikh-i Tabi�i, Tehran, Iran.
MMUS	See MAMU.
MNCN	Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
MNHN	Mus�um National d�Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Several cataloging systems including numbers only, an A. series and B. series and later a system of year plus lot, MNHN 1899-456 [sometimes as 99-456].	search fishes
MNHNC	Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile. Also as MNHNCH.
MNHNCH	Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Also seen as NMHNC.
MNHNM	Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Mexico City, Mexico.
MNHNSD	Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
MNRJ	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.	search
MNSB	Museum of Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
MNZ	Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. Formerly NMNZ, continue to use NMNZ on bottle lots.
MOFUNG	Museu Oceanogr. Fundacao Univerdidade Rio Grande, Brazil.
MOM	Mus�e Oceanographique Monaco, Monaco.	search types
MPEG	Museu Paraenese �Emilio Goeldi�, Para, Brazil.
MRAC	Mus�e Royal de l�Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium.
MRCN	Museu Rio-Grandense de Ci�ncias Naturais, Brazil.
MSINR	Museum Sichuan Institute of Natural Resources, China.
MSLH	Chinese University of Hong Kong, Marine Sciences Laboratory, Hong Kong.
MSM	Marine Science Museum, Tokai Univ., Shimizu City, Japan.
MSNC	Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Carmagnola, Italy. Also seen as MCSNC.
MSNG	Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova �Giacomo Doria�, Genova, Italy.
MSNM	Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano, Italy.
MSNV	Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Venezia, Italy.
MSNVR	Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona, Italy.
MSUM	Michigan State University, University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.
MT	Museum Tinro, Vladyvostok, Russia -- now probably the private collection of Dolganov.
MTD	Museum f�r Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany. [Staatliches Museum f�r Tierkunde].
MTKD	Staatliches Museum f�r Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany. See MTD.
MTUF	Univeristy Museum, Tokyo University of Fisheries, Tokyo, Japan.
MUMF	Department of Life Sciences, Manipur University Museum of Fishes, Canchipur, Manipur, India.
MUSM	Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
MVZ	University of California at Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Most of collection now at CAS.
MZB	Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor, Java, Indonesia.
MZH	Zoolgical Museum Helsinki, Finland.
MZN	Mus�e Zoologie, Nancy, France.
MZUABCS	Museo de Zoolog�a de la Universidad Aut�mica de Baja California Sur, Mexico.
MZUF	Universita di Firenze, Museo Zoologico de la Specola, Firenze, Italy.
MZUS	Universite de Strasbourg, Mus�e de Zoologie, Strasbourg, France.
MZUSP	Universidade de Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
MZUT	Universita di Torino, Museo Zoologico, Torino, Italy.
MZUTH	Museum of Zoology, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
MZYU	Museum of Zoology, Yunnan University, China.
NARA	National Aquatic Resources Agency, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
NCIP	Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Oseanologi, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia.
NGI	Nanjing Geographical Institute, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China. Also as NIGL and NIG.
NHMG	Naturhistoriska Museum G�teborg, Sweden. Also sometimes as GNM and NMG in literature.
NHMR	Natural History Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
NHRM	See NRM.
NIFI	National Inland Fisheries Institute, Fish Taxonomy Division, Bangkok, Thailand.
NIG	Nanjing Geographical Institute, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China. Also as NIGL and NGI.
NIGL	Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Academia Sinica.
NIWA	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch, New Zealand.
NKMC	National Kweiyang Medical College, Division of Biology, Kweichow, China.
NLU	Northeast Lousiana University, Museum of Zoology, Monroe, Louisiana, U.S.A.
NMBA	Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
NMBE	Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
NMC	National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
NMFSH	National Marine Fisheries Service, Honolulu, Hawaii. Also as BCFH, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Honolulu; much of collection at BPBM].
NMG	Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Goteborg, Sweden. Also seen as NHMG.
NMI	National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
NMK	National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya.
NMMH	North Manchurian Museum, Harbin, Manchuria, China.
NMNH	National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi, India.
NMNZ	National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand. Since 1992: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
NMP	Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa.
NMS	National Museum, Singapore.
NMSL	National Museum, Sir Marcus Fernando Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Also seen as CMS.
NMSZ	National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland [after 1985, formerly Royal Scottish Museum].
NMV	National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Style is A2345 with no period after the A; also an R series and straight number system.
NMW	Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (Vienna), Austria.
NOI	Nanhai Oceanographic Institute, Nanhai, China.
NPIB	Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Xining, Qinghai, China.
NRIBAS	National Research Institute of Biology, Academia Sinica, Nanking, China.
NRM	Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden.	search
NRMS	See NRM.
NRS	Northern Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India [also as ZSI/NRS].
NSMT	National Science Museum, Department of Zoology, Tokyo, Japan. Preferred style is NSMT-P 12345.
NSYU	National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Also as NSYSU.
NTM	Northern Territory Museum of Arts & Sciences, Darwin, Northern Terr., Australia
NTUM	National Taiwan University, Department of Zoology, Taipei, Taiwan
NUSMBS	Niigata University, Sado Marine Biological Station, Niigata, Japan.
NYSM	New York State Museum, Albany, New York, U.S.A.
NYZS	New York Zoological Society, New York, U.S.A. Some specimens at CAS.
NZOI	New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington, New Zealand.
OM	Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand.
OMNH	Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka, Japan.
OPM	Okinawa Prefectual Museum, Naha, Okinawa, Japan.
ORI	Ocean Research Institute, Durban, South Africa.
ORIT	University of Tokyo, Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. Most types now at ZUMT.
ORSTOM	Office de la Recherche scientifique et Technique Outre-mer. Several collections, such as at Noum�a, New Caledonia; Dakar, Senegal; Trinidad, Bolivia.
OS	Oregon State University, Museum of Natural History, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. Also seen as OSU.
OSM	Ohio State University Museum, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
OSU	See OS.
OSUO	Oregon State University, School of Oceanography, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. Most specimens transferred to OS main collection.
OSUS	Oklahoma State University, Department of Zoology, Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
OUM	Oxford University Museum, Oxford, England.
PEM	Port Elizabeth Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
PMBC	Phuket Marine Biological Centre, Phuket, Thailand.
PNGM	National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
PNM	Philippine National Museum, Manila, Luzon, Philippines.
PPSIO	P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia. Same as IOM.
PSU	Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
PU	Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
QM	Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Sometimes seen as QMB.oQVM Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Several numbering systems, preferred style 1972:5:44 not 72/5/44.
QVMS	Queen Victoria Museum, Salisbury, Zimbabwe.
RBCM	Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada. Formerly BCPM.
RIFFL	Research Institute of Freshwater Fisheries, Liaoning, China.
RMNH	Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Netherlands. Two systems initially, with overlapping numbers, dry collection preceded by a "D".
ROM	Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
RUSI	South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB); formerly J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa.
SACON	Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Tamil Nadu, India.
SAIAB	See RUSI.
SAM	South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.
SAMA	South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
SAU	Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas, U.S.A.
SBM	Sabah Museum, Sabah, East Malaysia (Ng, Martin-Smith & Ng 2000)
SCN	Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales �La Salle�, Museo de Historia Natural �La Salle�, Caracas, Venezuela.
SCSFRI	South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Guangzhau, China.
SDSU	San Diego State University, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
SFC	Laboratory of Fishes, Shanghai Fisheries University, China [also as Shanghai Fish. College].
SFRS	Sea Fisheries Research Station, Haifa, Israel.
SIO	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.	search
SIUC	Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), University Museum, Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.
SM	Sarawak Museum, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Also seen as SMK.
SMBL	Kyoto University, Seto Marine Biology Laboratory, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Specimens transferred to FAKU, some lost.
SMF	Natur-Museum und Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
SMK	Sarawak Museum, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. See SM.
SMNS	Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg, Germany.
SMWU	Sang Miung Women�s University, Seoul, South Korea.
SNHM	Sudan Natural History Museum, Sudan.
SNMB	Slovak National Museum, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
SNMBR	Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum in Braunschweig, Germany. Also earlier seen as NMB and SNMB.
SNMNH	Saudi Arabian National Museum of Natural History, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
SPNRI	Sichuan Province, Natrual Resources Institute, China.
SRS/ZSI	Southern Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India, Madras, India.
SSCN	Musum of the Biological Laboratory, Scientific Society of China, Nanking, China.
SU	Stanford University. Specimens at CAS.
SUB	Universitat Bonn, Sammlung der Universitat, Bonn, Germany.
SUF	Shimonoseki University of Fisheries, Shimonoseki, Japan.
TAU	Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
TCWC	Texas A&M University, Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.
TFMC	Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands.
TFRI	Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute, Chilung, Taiwan.
THUP	Tunghai University, Department of Zoology, Taichung, Taiwan.
TISTR	Thailand Institute for Scientific and Technological Research, Bangkok, Thailand.
TIU	Tokyo Imperial University, Science College Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Now ZMUT.
TMBS	Tatsuo Tanaka Memorial Biological Laboratory, Miyake-jima, Izu Islands, Japan.
TMFE	Elasmobranchii Collection of the Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University.
TMH	Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
TMP	Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Types at AMG.
TNHC	Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collection, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.	search
TU	Tulane University, Department of Zoology, New Orleans, Louisiana; Tulane University, Riverside Research Laboratories, Belle Chasse, Louisiana.	search
TUFIL	Tokyo University of Fisheries, Ichthyological Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan. Formerly IFI; now FAKU.
UAB	Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Departamento de Biolog�a, Barcelona, Spain.
UABCE	Universidad de Autonoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico.
UAIC	Universite Nationale de Cote d�Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
UAM	University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.
UAMZ	University of Alberta Museum of Zoology, Alberta, Canada.
UANL	Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
UAZ	University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
UBC	University of British Columbia, Cowan Vertebrate Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
UBJTL	Universidad Bogot� Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia.
UCD	University of California, Davis, California, U.S.A.
UCLA	University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Biology, Los Angeles, California. Much of collection now at LACM.
UCR	Universidad de Costa Rica, Museo de Zoologia, Depto. de Biologia, San Jose, Costa Rica.
UDONECI	Universidad de Oriente, Centro de Invest. Cient. del Nucleo de Nueva Esparta, Isla Margarita, Venezuela.
UF	University of Florida, Florida State Museum, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.
UF-FSU	See FSU.
UFPB	Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Jaoa Pessoa, Brazil.
UFRGS	Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Zoologia, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
UFRJ	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
UGAMNH	University of Georgia, Museum of Natural History, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.
UGM	University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam.
UH	University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Types transferred to BPBM and some to USNM.
UI	University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
UMB	�bersee-Museums, Bremen, Germany.
UMIM	Univeristy of Miami Ichthyological Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A. No longer in existence, specimens mostly to USNM and UMML.
UMML	University of Miami Marine Laboratory, Miami, Florida. Most of collection transferred to UF.
UMMZ	University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
UMOC	University of Missouri, Museum of Zoology, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.
UMUTZ	Department of Zoology, University Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. This abbreviation sometimes used; same as ZMUT.
UNAM	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Departmento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Mexico, DF, Mexico. Same as IBUNAM.
UNEFM	Universidad Experimental Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela.
UNOAL	University of Northern Alabama, Tuscalusa, Alabama, U.S.A.
UNOVC	University of New Orleans, Department of Biological Sciences, New Orleans, Lousiania, U.S.A.
UNR	University of Nevada, Museum of Biology, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.
UOMZ	University of Oklahoma, Stovall Museum of Zoology, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
URB	Ryukyu University Department of Zoology, Nakagusuku, Okinawa, Japan.
URM	University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan.
USA	University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A.
USBCF	U. S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Original collection with this abbreviation mostly now at USNM.
USFC	U. S. Fish Commission. Original collection using this abbreviation mostly now at USNM.
USNM	National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Formerly United States National Museum; USNM acronym continues.	search
USP	University of the South Pacific, Institute of Marine Resources, Suva, Fiji.
UT	University of Tennessee, Department of Zoology, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
UTEP	University of Texas at El Paso, Laboratory for Environmental Biology, El Paso, Texas, U.S.A.
UUZM	Uppsala University, Zoological Museum, Uppsala, Sweden.
UW	University of Washington, College of Fisheries, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
UZA	Universidad Zoolog�a Aplicada, Departamento de Ecolog�a, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
VBCM	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Catedra de Vertebrados, Faculdad de Biologicas, Madrid, Spain.
VIMS	Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia, U.S.A.	search
VMM	Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Centerport, New York, U.S.A. Most type specimens are now housed at the AMNH.
VSM	Det Kgl. Norske Videnskabers Selskab Museet, Trondheim, Norway.
VUW	Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
WAM	Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
WHOI	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Collection transferred to MCZ.
WIAP	Wistar Institute of Anatomy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Now at ANSP.
WLMH	West Lake Musuem, Hangchow, Chekiang, China.
XFCFC	Xiamen Fisheries College, Fujian, China.
YCM	Yokosuka City Museum, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
YPM	Yale University, Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
YU	Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
ZFMK	Zoologisches Forschunginstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany.
ZIAN	Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Leningrad. Same as ZISP.
ZICUP	Zoological Institute Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
ZIHU	Hiroshima University, Zoological Institute, Hiroshima, Japan.
ZIK	Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Insitute, Kiev, Ukraine.
ZIKU	Zoological Institute, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan.
ZIL	Now ZISP.
ZIN	Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia [preferred acronym]. Also seen as ZIL and ZISP.
ZISP	See ZIN.
ZIUT	Zoological Institute of the University of Tokyo. Same as ZUMT.
ZLSYU	Zoological Laboratory, Sun Yatsen University, China.
ZMA	Universiteit van Amsterdam, Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Usually cited with a period representing a comma, as ZAM 110,456, which we have deleted.
ZMAU	Zoological Museum Andhra University, India.
ZMB	Universitat Humboldt, Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany.
ZMC	Deptment of Biology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China.
ZMFMIB	Zoological Museum Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Tsing Hua University, Peiping, China.
ZMH	Universitat Hamburg, Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Hamburg, Germany.	search
ZMMGU	Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Also seen as ZMMU.
ZMMGY	See ZMMU.
ZMMSU	See ZMMU.
ZMMU	Zoological Museum, Moscow University, Russia. Sometimes seen in literature as MMSU, ZMMSU, ZMMGY, ZMMGU.
ZMT	Georgian State Museum, Zoological Section, Tbilisi, (Asiatic) Georgia.
ZMUA	Zoological Museum, University of Amoy, China.
ZMUAS	Zoological Museum, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
ZMUB	Universitetet i Bergen, Zoologisk Museum, Bergen, Norway.
ZMUC	Kobenhavns Universitet Zoologisk Museum (Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen), Copenhagen, Denmark.
ZMUH	Zoological Museum, University of Hanoi, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
ZMUI	Zoological Museum, University of Istanbul, Turkey.
ZMUL	Universitetets Lund, Zoologiska Museet, Lund, Sweden.
ZMUO	Universitetets I Oslo, Zoologisk Museum, Oslo, Norway.
ZMUT	University of Tokyo, Department of Zoology, University Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Same as ZUMT.
ZMUU	Uppsala Universitet, Zoologiska Museet, Uppsala, Sweden.
ZRC	Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
ZSI	Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
ZSM	Zoologische Museum Staatssammlung, M�nchen, Germany.
ZSM/CMK	Zoologische Museum Staatssammlung, M�nchen/Collection of Maurice Kottelat.
ZSM/LIPI	Zoologische Museum Staatssammlung, M�nchen/specimens eventually to be transferred to Indonesian institution.
ZSP	Zoological Survey of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan.
ZUEC	Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Departmento do Zoologia, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
ZUFES	Universidad Federal do Esp�rito Santo, Brazil.
ZUMT	Department of Zoology, University Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Also seen as ZMUT.
ZVC	Depto. de Zoologia Vertebrados de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay.
ZZSZ	Zoology Department, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb (Zoologijski Zavod, Priodoslovno-matematicki fakultet, Sveucilista u Zagrebu), Zagreb, Croatia.