Museums List
Below is a list all museums and their respective acronyms used within the Australian Faunal Directory.
| Acronym | Museum name |
|---|---|
| ???? | (whereabouts unknown) |
| AAC | Andrew Atkins (pers. coll.) |
| AACC | Anhwei Agricultural College, China |
| ABCL | Australian Biological Control Laboratory, Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
| ABTC | Australian Biological Tissue Collection, South Australian Museum, Adelaide |
| ABTS | Andrew B.T. Smith (pers. coll.) |
| AC | Agriculture Canada, Ottawa |
| ADUG | Geology Dept, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| ADUZ | Zoology Dept, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| AEI | American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, USA |
| AEIC | American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, Florida |
| AEIF | American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
| AEIG | American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
| AFAQ | Amateur Fisheries Association of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| AGS | A. Giordana Soika (pers. coll.) |
| AHF | Allan Hancock Foundation, Los Angeles, USA (collections now incorporated into LACM) |
| AHMG | A. Hiller collection, Mt Glorious, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| AHQA | A. & M. Walford-Huggins collection (pers. coll.) |
| AIK | A.I. Knight (pers. coll.) |
| AIM | Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand |
| AIMS | Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville |
| AJB | A.J. Bruce (pers. coll.) |
| AJGC | A.J. Graham (pers. coll.) |
| ALA | University of Alabama, Alabama, USA |
| AM | Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| AM(MMUS) | Australian Museum (Macleay Museum Collection), Sydney, Australia |
| AMAL | A.M.A. Low (pers. coll.) |
| AMG | Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa |
| AML | A.M. Lucas (pers. coll.) |
| AMNH | American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA |
| AMNZ | Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand |
| AMPC | Adrian M. Pinder Collection (pers. coll.) |
| AMS | Australian Museum, Sydney |
| AMSA | Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| ANIC | Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| ANIC(MMUS) | Australian National Insect Collection (Macleay Museum Collection), CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| ANSP | Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| ANU | Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| ANWC | Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| AQIS | Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, Cairns |
| ARC | |
| ARK | University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA |
| ARWH | Australian Registry of Wildlife Health, Taronga Zoological Gardens |
| ASC | Alan Sundholm (pers. coll.) |
| ASCJC | A. Sibitani, Japan (pers. coll.) |
| ASCT | The Agricultural Scientific Collections Trust, Orange, NSW, Australia |
| ASCU | Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange, New South Wales, Australia, formerly referred to as DARI |
| ASIZB | Academia Sinica Institute of Zoology, Beijing, China |
| ASIZP | Academia Sinica Institute of Zoology, Taipei, Taiwan |
| ASSA | A. Sundholm, Sydney, New South Wales (pers. coll.) |
| ASSL | Academy of Sciences, St Louis, Michigan, USA |
| ASU | Arizona State University, Arizona, USA |
| AUM | Auburn University, Alabama, USA |
| AW | Alice Wells (pers. coll.) |
| AWH | A. Walford-Huggins (pers. coll.) |
| AWHC | A. & M. Walford-Huggins collection, Mt Molloy, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| AWMM | Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand |
| AZM | Australian Zoological Museum, Katoomba (pers. coll.) |
| BAC | Beijing Agricultural College, Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| BAH | Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Germany |
| BALL | E.D. Ball collection (pers. coll.) |
| BAS | British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge |
| BCI | Barnes, Illinois (pers. coll.) |
| BCIQT | Animal & Plant Quarantine laboratory, Taichung Branch Office, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taichung, Taiwan |
| BCRI | Biological and Chemical Research Institute, Rydalmere (Sydney), NSW, Australia |
| BCW | B.C. White (pers. coll.) |
| BDHU | Biological Department of Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, China |
| BELL | Bell (pers. coll.) |
| BHVC | B.H. Vardy (pers. coll.) |
| BIE | Instituto di Entomologia, Bologna, Italy |
| BIEC | British East India Company collection ***check acronym, need rest of address*** |
| BILQUEES | collection of Prof. F.M. Bilquees (pers. coll.) |
| BITU | Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan |
| BIUB | Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolia |
| BJ | Barrie Jamieson Collection (pers. coll.) |
| BLC | B. Levey collection (pers. coll.) |
| BLCW | Brian Levey collection, Cardiff, Wales |
| BLIH | Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household of Japan, Tokyo, Japan |
| BLT | Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University, Tokushima, Japan |
| BMBN | Bergen Museum, Bergen, Norway |
| BMEUC | Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA |
| BMF | Bjorn M. Fjellstad, Surfers Paradise (pers. coll.) |
| BMNH | Natural History Museum London, England (formerly British Museum of Natural History) |
| BMPC | Barry Moore, Canberra (pers. coll.) |
| BMR | Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| BMRI | see IPBM, Borneo Marine Research Institute Fish Collection, Kota Kinabalu |
| BNHM | Bombay Natural History Museum, Bombay, India |
| BNHS | Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India |
| BNM | Beijing Natural History Museum, Beijing |
| BOC | Bingham Oceanographic Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| BPBM | Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
| BPPI | Budapest: Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary |
| BROOKS | Brooks (pers. coll.) |
| BSKU | Dept of Biology, Kochi University, Kochi City, Japan |
| BSM | Berliner Staatliches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| BSMP | Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippines |
| BSSC | Bull |
| BYU | Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA |
| CA | Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, USA |
| CAK | A. Kallies (pers. coll.) |
| CALM | Western Australian Dept of Conservation and Land Management collection, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| CAM | Central Australian Museum, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia |
| CAS | California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA |
| CAS(SU) | Stanford University Collections in California Academy of Sciences, California, USA |
| CASIZ | California Academy of Sciences, Invertebrate Zoology Collection, San Francisco, California, USA |
| CASS | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Ecology, Shenyang, China |
| CAWC | Central Australian Wildlife Collection |
| CBB | R.T. Bell, University of Vermont, Burlington (pers. coll.) |
| CBGP | Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Montpellier, France |
| CBM | Working Collection M. Baehr, München |
| CBM-ZF | Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Japan |
| CBP | P. Bulirsch, Praha, Czech Republic (pers. coll.) |
| CBS | CBS (?) |
| CC | Cockerell (pers. coll.) |
| CCARV | Carvalho collection (pers. coll.) |
| CCB | Central College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| CCHENG | CHENG (pers. coll.) |
| CDW | A. Dostal, Wien (pers. coll. including the Karel Kult Collection) |
| CE | Christer Erséus personal collection (pers. coll.) |
| CELL | Collection Edmond de Laever, Liège, Belgium (pers. coll.) |
| CFD | F. Douglas (pers. coll.) |
| CFS | Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forest Research Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| CGC | Collection Gilbert L. Challet, Florida, United States (pers. coll.) |
| CGM | C.G. Miller (pers. coll.) |
| CGNZ | Chris Green Collection, Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand |
| CHA | P. Hudson (pers. coll.) Adelaide |
| CHAMID | Hamid (pers. coll.) |
| CHC | C. Herbulot Collection, Paris, France |
| CHEISS | Heiss (pers. coll.) |
| CHILL | Hill (pers. coll.) |
| CHM | Charlestown Museum, USA |
| CICIUP | Centro de Introduccion y Cria de Insectos Utiles, Lima, Peru |
| CINZ | Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand |
| CIX | Museum of Garden History, London, UK |
| CJACOBS | Jacobs (pers. coll.) |
| CJM | C.J. Muller (pers. coll.) |
| CJP | S. Jakl, Praha, Czech Republic (pers. coll.) |
| CKORM | Kormilev (pers. coll.) |
| CLAUC | Lauck (pers. coll.) |
| CLBC | C.L. Bellamy collection, Sacramento, California, USA (pers. coll.) |
| CLH | Lars Hendrich (pers. coll.) |
| CLUTZ | Lutz (pers. coll.) |
| CM | Carnegie Museum, Pennsylvania, USA |
| CMB | Martin Baehr Collection at Zoologische Staatssammlung, München (Germany) |
| CMFRI | Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Mandapam Camp, India |
| Private Collection of Michael Langer, Niederweisa, Germany | |
| CMNH | Chicago Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA |
| CMNO | The Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada |
| CMNZ | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| CMP | Machacek, P. (pers. coll.) |
| Private Collection of Martin Seitner, Dietranszell, Germany | |
| CMUT | Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| CMW | Colonial Museum, Wellington, New Zealand |
| CNC | Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada (= CNCI) |
| CNCI | Canadian National Collection Insects, Ottwa, Ontario, Canada (= CNC) |
| CNRO | Centre National de Recherches Océanographiques, Nossi-Bé, Malagasy Republic |
| COM | Colombo Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| COPPINGER | Coppinger (pers. coll.) |
| CPC | Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection, Geoscience, Canberra (formerly Bureau of Mineral Resources) |
| CPOLH | Polhemus (pers. coll.) |
| CPS | University of Puget Sound (= CPSC, CPSU) |
| CPSC | University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA (= CPS, CPSU) |
| CPSU | University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA (= CPS, CPSC) |
| CRE | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| CREIC | Reichardt (pers. coll.) |
| CREIGER | Reiger (pers. coll.) |
| CREMA | Remane (pers. coll.) |
| CRG | R. Glatz (pers. coll.) |
| CROUB | Roubal (pers. coll.) |
| CRS | CRS what is it??? |
| CSCA | California State Collection of Arthropods, California Dept. Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA |
| CSCUD | Scudder (pers. coll.) |
| CSID | CSIRO, Darwin, T. Churchil |
| CSIRO | CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| CSLAT | Slater (pers. coll.) |
| CSM | R. Sciaky, Milano (pers. coll.) |
| CSTIU | Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| CSTYS | Stys (pers. coll.) |
| CSWEET | Sweet (pers. coll.) |
| CTV | L. Toledano, Verona (pers. coll.) |
| CU | Cornell University |
| CUB | Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| CUIC | Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
| CUMZ | Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, England |
| CUMZB | Chulalongkorn University, Museum of Zoology, Bangkok, Thailand |
| CZL | Centro de Zoologia, Lisboa, Portugal |
| DALC | D.A. Lane (pers. coll.) |
| DAM | Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland |
| DASF | Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
| DE | D. Emery, personal collection |
| de Keyzer collection | |
| DEBU | University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada |
| DEIB | Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalde, Germany |
| DEIC | Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg |
| DEIE | Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalde-Finow, Germany |
| DELO | Dwight M. DeLong collection (pers. coll.) |
| DEMD | Deutsches Entomologisches Museum, Dahlem |
| DEVCI | Bet Dagan: Department of Entomology, The Volcani Center, Israel |
| DEZAP | Dipartimento di Entomologia e Zoologia Agraria, Università di Napoli Federico II, Portici, Italy |
| DFA | Department of Fisheries, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
| DFC | D.F. Crosby (pers. coll.) |
| DFQ | Department of Forestry, Queensland, Australia |
| DFRIS | Donghai Fisheries Research Institute, Shanghai, China |
| DGCI | D. Gianasso collection, Carmagnola, Italy (pers. coll.) |
| DJGC | David Greathead Collection, Wargrave, UK |
| DKRUSE | Private collection of D.N. Kruse (pers. coll.) |
| DM | Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand |
| DMB | Durban Museum, Durban, South Africa |
| DMNH | Delaware Museum of Natural History, Delaware, USA |
| Discovery Museum | Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
| DOFLEIN | Doflein (pers. coll.) |
| DOS | Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. |
| DPC | G. Daniels (pers. coll.) [in AM from 2013/14] |
| DPIH | Department of Primary Industry (formerly DAHT), Hobart, Australia |
| DPIM | Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia |
| DPIQ | Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| DPIQM | Department of Primary Industries, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia |
| DPIRD | Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Perth, Western Australia |
| DPSC | D.P. Sands (pers. coll.) |
| DSP | Fitzsimon's Snake Park, Durban, South Africa |
| DZMU | Department of Zoology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| DZUC | Departaments de Zoologia da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal |
| DZUFP | Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidae Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil |
| DZUK | Department of Zoology, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland |
| DZVU | Universidad de Uruguay, Uruguay |
| EADC | E.A. Dodge collection, Santa Cruz, California (pers. coll.) |
| EAMFRO | East African Marine Fisheries Organisation, Zanzibar |
| EAQA | E. Adams, Edungalba, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| EBRG | Estacion Biologia de Rancho Grande, Museo, Maracay, Venezuela |
| EC | Evans (pers. coll.) |
| ECNB | Escuela Nacional Ciencias, Mexico City, Mexico |
| ECSFI | East China Sea Fisheries Institute, Shanghai, China |
| ECTARI | Entomology Collection, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wu-feng, Taichung, Taiwan |
| EFWM | Department of Entomology, Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA |
| EI | Universidade Federal Rural, Eugen Izecksohn, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| EIHU | Entomological Institute, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
| ELCAK | Entomological Laboratory, College of Agriculture, Kyoto Imperial University, Kyoto, Japan |
| ELKU | Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan |
| ELTE | Zoosystematical and Ecological Institute, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest |
| EMAG | Ernst-Moritz Arndt Collection, Museum der Stadt Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany |
| EMEC | Essig Museum of Entomology, University of Berkeley, California, USA [=EMUC] |
| EMGRIK | Entomological Museum of the Government Research |
| EMOC | Eveline Marcus Oligochaeta Collection Caixa Postal 6994 (pers. coll.) |
| EMUC | Essig Museum, Division of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, USA [=EMEC] |
| EPAL | Entomology Collection, Punjab Agricultural University, Lyallpur, Pakistan |
| EPN | Escuela Politecnia National, Quito, Ecuador |
| ETHZ | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland |
| ETIENNE | Etienne Collection, Guadeloupe |
| EU | Ehime University, Ehime, Japan |
| EUMJ | Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan |
| EUQ | Department of Entomology, Queensland University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| EVC | Eduard Vives Collection, Barcelona |
| Ewart coll. | Ewart Collection |
| FAKU | Dept of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan |
| FCG | FCG - PLEASE CHECK WHAT MUSEUM THIS IS |
| FCNA | Forestry Commission of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| FCNI | Forestry Commission of New South Wales Insect Collection, Beecroft, New South Wales, Australia |
| FKCC | Friederich Kiefer Copepod Collection, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe, Germany |
| FLIN | Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| FLMH | Fisheries Laboratory, Mourilyan Harbour, Queensland |
| FLMNH-UF | Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA |
| FLPC | Felix Lorenz Private Collection |
| FMHU | Fisheries Museum, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan |
| FMNH | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| FRLM | Faculty of Fisheries, Mie University, Fisheries Research Laboratory, Mie-ken, Japan |
| FRSA | Fisheries Research Station, Aberdeen, Scotland |
| FSBC I | Florida Marine Reserach Institute, St. Pertersburg, Florida, USA |
| FSCA | Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainsville, Florida, USA |
| FSFRL | National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Fisheries Research Agency, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan (formerly Far Seas Fisheries Research Laboratory) |
| FSKU | Kitasato University, School of Fisheries Sciences, Iwate Prefecture, Japan |
| FSM | Florida State Museum, Gainesville, Florida, USA |
| FTIC | Forestry Tasmania Insect Collection |
| FUMT | University of Tokyo, Department of Fisheries, University Musuem, Tokyo, Japan |
| GARDINER | Stanley Gardiner (pers. coll.) |
| GAUBA | Gauba Collection, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| George Burns Collection (NMV) | |
| GCBP | G.C.B. Poore (pers. coll.) |
| GCRL | Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA |
| GD | G.R. Dyne (pers. coll.) |
| GDCB | Greg Daniels (pers. coll.) [in AM from 2013/14] |
| GEN MUS | Geneva Museum |
| GHNC | G.H. Nelson collection, U.S.A. (pers. coll.) |
| GLAHM | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, UK |
| GLB | Geneeskundig Laboratorium, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| GML | Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, Northbrook, Illinois, USA |
| GMNH | Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Switzerland |
| GNM | Gothenburg Museum of Natural History, Sweden |
| GORZCYCA | Gorzcyca Collection, Katowice, Poland |
| GPC | Gibb (pers. coll.) |
| GRIF | Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| GS | Guy Silvestre collection (pers. coll.) |
| GT | G. Theischinger (pers. coll.) |
| GTCM | Gordon Technical College Museum |
| GUM | Glasgow University Museum (Hunter Museum), Glassgow, Scotland |
| GWAQ | G. Wood collection, Atherton, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| GWC | G. Williams collection, Taree, New South Wales, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| GZM | Giessener Zoologisches Museum, Germany |
| HAHC | H.A. Howden collection, Ottawa, Canada (pers. coll.) |
| HAUPT | Haupt Collection, Jena, Germany (pers. coll.) |
| HCRDI | Horticultural Crop Research and Development Institute, Paradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| HDWA | H. Demarz collection, Woodridge, Western Australia, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| HEISS | Ernst Heiss peronal collection (pers. coll.) |
| HESC | Hawai Entomological Society Collection, Honolulu |
| HHB | H.H. Bollam (pers. coll.) |
| HKS | H.K. Schminke (pers. coll.) |
| HLMD | Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany |
| HMN | Hancock Museum, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
| HMNT | Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
| HNC | Haus der Natur Cismar, Germany |
| HNHM | Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary |
| HOCB | Serge Hrabe Oligochaete Collection, Brno, Czech Republic (pers. coll.) |
| HPUSC | Hancock Parasitology Collection, University of Southern California |
| HSPA | H.S.P.A. Experiment Station, Honolulu |
| HUGG | Personal collection of Lars Huggert, Lund, Sweden |
| HUJ | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| HUMZ | Hokkaido University, Laboratory of Marine Zoology, Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido, Japan |
| HWML | Harold W. Manter Laboratory, University of Nebraska, USA |
| HZM | Zoologisches Museum of Hamburg, Germany |
| Hasenpusch Coll. | |
| J. Hasenpusch, personal collection | |
| IARI | Indian Agricultural Research Institute. New Delhi |
| ICM | Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Paseo Nacional, Barcelona, Spain |
| ICN | Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia |
| IDRB | Instituut voor Dierkunde, Rijksuniversiteit, Ghent, Belgium |
| IEA | Instituto di Entomologia Agraria, Portici, Italy |
| IEB | Institute of Entomology, Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China |
| IFAN | Instituto Fondamental d'Afrique Noir, Dakar, Senegal |
| IFRI | Indian Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| IGAC | I. G. Andrew collection, Palmerston North, New Zealand |
| IGM | I.G. Morhaus (pers. coll.) |
| IGNS | Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, nr Wellington, New Zealand |
| IIPB | Institut de Ciéncies del mar, Barcelona, Spain |
| IM | Indian Museum, Calcutta, India |
| IMLA | Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina |
| IMRJ | South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| IMS | Institute of Marine Sciences (formerly East African Marine Fisheries Organization), Zanzibar |
| IMT | Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| IMTJ | Institute for Malacology, Tokyo, Japan |
| IMTU | Institute of Medicine, Community Medicine Department, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| INHS | Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, Illinois, USA |
| INM | Irish National Museum, Dublin, Ireland |
| INPA | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas de Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil |
| IOAN | Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
| IOBC | National Institute of Oceanography, Cochin, India |
| IOC | Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| IOCAS | Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| ION | Institut Océanographique de Nhatrang, Nhatrang, Vietnam |
| IOQ | Institute of Oceanology, Academia Sinica, Qingdao, China |
| IORAS | Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| IPBM | Borneo Marine Research Institute Fish Collection, Kota Kinabalu |
| IPCAS | Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Science, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic |
| IPEF | Institut für Pflanzenschutzforschung, Eberswalde-Finow, Germany |
| IPK | Institut für Pflanzenschutzforschung, Berlin, Germany |
| IPN | Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico |
| IPSAA | Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Firenze. |
| IRSM | Institut Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar, Madagascar |
| IRSNB | Institut Royal des Sciences Naturalles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium |
| ISBC | Institute of Soil Biology, Czech Academy of Science, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic |
| ISBJR | Institute of Soil Biology, J. Rusek Collection (pers. coll.) |
| ISH | Institut für Seefischerei, Hamburg, Germany |
| ISNB | Museum de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique |
| ISTPM | Institute Scientifique et Technique des Pêches Maritimes, Nantes, France |
| ISVB | Inst. Sanidad Vegetal Buenos Aires |
| ITOCOL | Ito collection, Entomological Laboratory, University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan |
| IUM | Department of Biology, Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan |
| IZAC | Academia de Ciences, La Habana, Habana, Cuba |
| IZASS | l'Institut Zoologique de l'Académie de Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| IZBT | L'Institut de Zoologie et Botanique de Tartu, Estonia |
| IZCR | Istituto di Zoologia "Giuseppe Reverberi" dell'Università, Palermo, Italy |
| IZUC | Universidad de Conceptión, Conceptión, Chile |
| IZUCS | Università di Cagliari, Inst. Zool., Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy |
| IZW | Institut Zoologii, Warsaw, Poland |
| JCC | James C. Cokendolpher collection, Lubbock, Texas (pers. coll.) |
| JCUT | James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
| JD | John Dean (pers. coll.) |
| JDC | J. d'Apice (pers. coll.) |
| JEC | J.E. Collin, Raylands', Newmarket, England (pers. coll.) |
| JFBM | James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| JFDC | J.F. Donaldson (pers. coll.) |
| JFRKC | J.F.R. Kerr (pers. coll.) |
| JGAA | J. Gardner, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| JH | Jiri Hava, Praha, Czech Republic (pers. coll.) |
| JHC | J. Hasenpuch collection, Innisfail, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| JHQA | J. Harslett, Amiens, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) [in QM/QMB from Jan/Feb 2014] |
| JI | J. Illies (pers. coll.) |
| JK | J. Kojima (pers. coll.) |
| Private Collection of Jiri Kolibác, Brno, Czech Republic | |
| JLC | John Landy (pers. coll.) |
| JMC | J. Macqueen (pers. coll.) |
| JMPC | J. Muona (pers. coll.) |
| JMQA | J. Macqueen, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| JOGC | James O'Grady Collection (pers. coll.) |
| JOLIVET | P. Jolivet (pers. coll.) |
| Private Collection of Jakub Rolcík, Praha, Czech Republic | |
| JRPC | J. Rusek, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (pers. coll.) |
| JSBC | J.S. Bartlett private collection |
| JSCB | J. Sedlacek collection (pers. coll.) |
| JSPC | J. Sedlacek (pers. coll.) |
| JSQA | J. Sedlacek collection, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| JTNA | J. Turner collection, Hill End, New South Wales, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| KAS | Spencers personal collection (pers. coll.) |
| KAUM | Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima, Japan |
| KBIN | Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Brussels, Belgium |
| KC | Kult Collection |
| KCJ | S. Kanda Collection, Asano Senior High School, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan |
| KFRS | Kanudi Fisheries Research Station, Papua New Guinea |
| KIU | Science Department, Kyoto Imperial University, Japan |
| KIUJ | Kyusu University, Fukuoka, Japan |
| KIZ | Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming |
| KKUA | Khon Kaen University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Entomology, Khon Kaen, Thailand |
| KLD | K.L. Dunn (pers. coll.) |
| KM | Muzeum Przyrodnicze przy Zakladzie Zoologii Systematycznej, Krakøw, Poland |
| KMK | Kaffarian Museum, King William's Town, South Africa |
| KMV | Kaiserlich Museum, Vienna, Austria |
| KNHM | Kitakyushu Natural History Museum, Japan |
| KONE | Central Reference Collection, Dept of Primary Industries, Konedobu, Papua New Guinea |
| KPM | Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Yokohama, Japan |
| KPMNH | Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan |
| KREFFT | Krefft (pers. coll.) |
| KU | University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
| KUEL | Entomology Laboratory of Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan |
| KUMF | Kasetsart University Museum of Fisheries, Bangkok, Thailand |
| KUNHM | Kansas University Natural History Museum |
| KZGA | Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Z. Komiya, personal collection | |
| LACM | Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| LACM-AHF | Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Allan Hancock Foundation Collection |
| LAM | L.A. Mound (pers. coll.) |
| LCFM | Musée La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
| LDC | L. Deharveng Collection, Toulouse, France |
| LDPC | L. Deharveng, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (pers. coll.) |
| LEMC | Lyman Entomological Museum, Macdonald College, Canada |
| LEW | Laboratorium voor Entomologie, Wageningen, Netherlands |
| LFM | Merseyside County Museums (formerly Liverpool Free Museum), Liverpool, England |
| LIHUBA | Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| LIPI | Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia |
| LIVCM | Liverpool County Museum, Liverpool, England |
| LM | State Museum of Natural History, Leyden, The Netherlands |
| LNK | Landessammlungen für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| LNPV | Laboratoire National de la Protection des Végétaux, station d’entomologie, Montpellier, France |
| LRP | Lawrence R. Penner Parasitology Collection, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA |
| LS | Linnaean Society, London, England |
| LSTM | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK |
| Linnean Society of London | The Linnean Society of London |
| LSUMZ | Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology, Baton Rouge, Missouri, USA |
| LSUS | Louisiana State Museum, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA |
| LTC | L. Toledano (pers. coll.) |
| LUC | Limburgs Universitair Centrum |
| LUNZ | Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand |
| LWP coll. | L. Popple Collection |
| LZFD | Laboratoire Zoologique, Faculté des Sciences, Dijon, France |
| M.W. | Melbourne Ward (pers. coll.) |
| MACL | Macleay Museum at the Sydney University |
| MACN | Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| MAD | Madras Museum, Madras, India |
| MAGD | Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin, Australia |
| MAGNT | Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin |
| MAN | Muséum-Aquarium de Nancy, Nancy, France |
| MATOCQ | Matocq Collection, Paris, France |
| MATS | Shonen Matsumura collection (pers. coll.) |
| MB | Museu Bocage, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal |
| MBCTU | Marine Biological Center, Tokai University, Shimizu, Japan |
| MBISN | Museum of the Biological Institute SO AN SSSR, Novosibirsk, Russia |
| MBL | Museu Nacional de História Natural, Universidade Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal |
| MBNH | Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History |
| MBPC | Marty Beals Private Collection |
| MBSAG | Mar. Biol. Sta. Al Ghardaqa |
| MBUCV | Universidad Central, Caracas, Venezuela |
| MBZH | Museo y Biblioteca de la Zoologia, La Habana, Cuba |
| MC | G. Merino collection (lost) (pers. coll.) |
| MCCI | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Carmagnola, Italy |
| MCG | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 'Giacomo Doria', Genoa, Italy (=MSNG) |
| MCM(CMFRI) | Reference Collection, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Mandapam Camp, India |
| MCNBA | Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| MCNC | Museo de Ciences Naturales, Caracas, Venezuela |
| MCSN | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan |
| MCZ | Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| MD | Museu do Dundo, Luanda, Angola |
| MDB | M. De Baar (pers. coll.) [in QM/QMB from Jan/Feb 2014] |
| MDFR | Museum de Douai, France |
| MDFRC | Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre |
| MDPI | Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Mareeba |
| MDUG | Universidad Guanajuato, Museo Alfredo Duges, Mexico |
| MEAES | Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Maine, USA |
| MEGPM | Meguro Parasitology Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| MELG | Geology Dept, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| MELU | University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| MFLB | Marine Fisheries Laboratory, Department of Fisheries, Bangkok, Thailand |
| MFNB | Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| MFP | Museo Felipe Poey, La Habana, Habana, Cuba |
| MGAB | Museu 'Gross Antipa', Bucharest, Romania |
| MGF | Museum George Frey, Tutzing, Germany |
| MGH | Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg (now in ZMH), Germany |
| MGWA | M. Golding collection, Berverley, Western Australia, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| MHC | M. Hanlon collection, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| MHN | Museum de História Natural, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil |
| MHNB | Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (Naturhistorisches Museum), Basel, Switzerland |
| MHNBX | Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Bordeaux |
| MHND | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| MHNG | Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland |
| MHNLS | Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela |
| MHNM | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| MHNT | Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Troyes (France) |
| MHNV | Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso, Chile |
| MHNVL | Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de la Ville de Lille, Lille, France |
| MHSA | M. Hanlon, Sydney, New South Wales (pers. coll.) |
| MIZL | Musée de l'Institut de Zoologie, Liège, Belgium |
| MJC | Michael Jefferies Collection (pers. coll.) |
| MJG | Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (Abteilung für Zoologie), Austria |
| MJPP | Museum Jardin des Plantes, Paris |
| MK | Kiev Museum, Russia |
| ML | Prirodosloveni Muzej Slovenije, Yugo. |
| MLFD | Molslaboratoriet, Femmoller, Denmark |
| MLM | Melinda Moir pers. coll. |
| MLP | Museo de La Plata, Argentina |
| MLPC | Max Liebke (pers. coll.) |
| MLS | Museo de la Instituto de la Salle, Bogotá, Colombia |
| MLSF | Museo 'La Specola', Florence, Italy |
| MLU | Martin Luther Universität, Wissenschaftsbereich Zoologie, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
| MLUH | Martin Luther Universität, Wissenschaftsbereich Zoologie, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
| MM | Universität Magdeburg, Germany |
| MMB | Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic |
| MMBC | Moravske Muzeum [Moravian Museum], Brno, Czech Republic |
| MMBL | Manazuru Marine Biological Laboratory, Japan |
| MMBS | Mukaishima Marine Biological Station, Japan |
| MMF | Museu Municipal do Funschal, Madeira, Brazil |
| MMH | Municipal Museum, Halberstadt, Germany |
| MMK | McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa |
| MMMZ | Mutare Museum, Mutare, Zimbabwe |
| MMTT | Muzo-ye-Melli-ye Tarikh-e Tabii, Tehran, Iran |
| MMUE | Museum of Manchester University, Manchester, England |
| MMUS | Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| MN | Universidade de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| MNB | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin |
| MNCN | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain |
| MNCR | Museo Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica |
| MNH | Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Budapest, Hungary |
| MNHD | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| MNHL | Muséum l'Histoire Naturalle, Lyon, France |
| MNHN | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile |
| MNHNJP | Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru |
| MNHNM | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Mexico City, Mexico |
| MNHNN | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nice, France |
| MNHNP | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France |
| MNHNSD | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo |
| MNHP | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France |
| MNHPA | Museum of Natural History and Pathological Anatomy, Fort Pitt, Chatham, London, England |
| MNINGA | Muzeul National de Istorie Naturala “Grigore Antipa,” Bucharest |
| MNM | Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary |
| MNPV | Laboratoire National de la Protection des Végétaux, station d’entomologie, Montpellier, Franc |
| MNRJ | Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| MNUB | Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin |
| MNZ | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile |
| MOM | Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco |
| MONZ | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongaewa (formerly National Museum of New Zealand), Wellington, New Zealand |
| MPC | M. Peterson collection, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| MPEG | Museu Paraense 'Emiliano Goeldi', Belém, Brazil |
| MPL | Musée de Port Louis, Mauritius Institute, Port Louis, Mauritius |
| MPM | Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
| MPWA | M. Powell collection, Melville, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| MQU | Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| MRAC | Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. |
| MRCS | Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, London |
| MRGS | Museu do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| MRHN | Museu Rio-Grandense de Ciências Naturais, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| MRSN | Museo Regionale Scienze Naturali, Torino, Italy |
| MRST | Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy |
| MS | Musée de Zoologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, France |
| MSB | Museum Sophia, Bulgaria |
| MSCC | MS Caterino Collection (pers. coll.) |
| MSCJ | M. Satô (pers. coll.) |
| MSCM | Massachusetts State Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA |
| MSMC | M.S. Moulds (pers. coll.) |
| MSNF | Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze - Sezione di Zoologia ('La Specola') |
| MSNG | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 'Giacomo Doria', Genova, Italy (=MCG) |
| MSNM | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Italy |
| MSNT | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Torino, Italy |
| MSNV | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona |
| MSNVE | Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
| MSUM | Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
| MSUMZ | Memphis State University, Tennessee, USA |
| MSUP | Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia |
| MT | Taiwan Museum, Taipai, Taiwan |
| MTKD | Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany |
| MTQ | Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
| MTUF | Museum of the Tokyo University of Fisheries |
| MUC | Muller collection, Jena, Germany (pers. coll.) |
| MUFS | Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan |
| MUL | Museum Ludovicae Ulricae |
| MULU | Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden |
| MURD | Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| MV | Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (see NMV) |
| MVMA | Museum of Victoria, Abbotsford, Australia |
| MVZ | Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA |
| MW | Museum Wasmann, Valkenburg, The Netherlands |
| MWNH | Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| MZ | Museo de Zoologica de la Universidad de Narrava, Spain |
| MZB | Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor, Indonesia |
| MZBL | Museo de Zoologica, Barcelona, Spain |
| MZGZ | Museum Zoologia del Giardino Zoologico, Rome, Italy |
| MZH | Finnish Museum of Natural History (Museum of Zoology Helsinki), Helsinki, Finland (= ZMHH, UZMH) |
| MZIKIU | Museumof the Zoological Institute, Kyoto Imperial University, Japan. |
| MZTG | Museum Zoologia, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico |
| MZUB | Museo di Zoologia dell'Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy |
| MZUF | Museo Zoologico, Università, Firenze, Italy |
| MZUM | Musium Zoologi, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| MZUN | Museum of Zoology, University of Napoli, Italy |
| MZUP | Museo Zoologia, Università Padua, Padova, Italy |
| MZUS | Musée de Zoologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, France |
| MZUSP | Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
| MZUT | Museo e Instituto di Zoologia Sistematica dell'Università di Torino, Turin, Italy |
| MZV | Zoological Museum Varsovite, Russia |
| MZVC | Museo de Zoología, Universidad de Concepción, Uruguay |
| Murdoch Uni. Coll. | Murdoch University Collection |
| NAMMA | Natura Artis Magistra Museum, Amsterdam |
| NAP | Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica (formerly National Academy of Peiping), Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| NAPC | Navas (pers. coll.) |
| NBQ | N.B. Quick (pers. coll.) |
| NCHU | National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan |
| NCIP | National Collection of Insects, Pretoria, South Africa |
| NCIPJ | Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Oseanologi, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia |
| NEW | University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| NEZ | Museum, Zoology Department, University of New England, Armadale, New South Wales, Australia |
| NHM | Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland |
| NHM-UK | Natural History Museum, London UK |
| NHMA | Naturhistorisk Museum Aarhus, Denmark |
| NHMB | Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland |
| NHMG | Naturhistoriska Museet, Göteborg, Sweden |
| NHMIC | Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba |
| NHML | Natural History Museum, London |
| NHMR | Natural History Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| NHMUK | Natural History Museum, Karachi University, Pakistan |
| NHMV | Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria (= NHMW, VNHM, ZMV) |
| NHMW | Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria (= Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria) (= NHMV, VNHM, ZMV) |
| NHRM | Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (= NHRS, NRMS, NRS) |
| NHRN | Natuurhistorisch Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| NHRS | Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (= NHRM, NRMS, NRS) |
| NIO | National Institute of Oceanography, USA |
| NIOJ | National Institute of Oceanology, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| NIWA | National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, New Zealand |
| NJU | Nanjing University, Nanjing, China |
| NKMU | Nankai University Museum, Tianjin, People's Republic of China |
| NLU | University of Louisiana at Monroe, Department of Biology, Museum of Natural History, Division of Zoology, Monroe, Louisiana, USA |
| NM | National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya |
| NMBO | National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| NMC | National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
| NMGC | National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales |
| NMI | National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
| NMINH | National Museum of Ireland, Dublin |
| NMK | National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya |
| NMKE | National Museums of Kenya |
| NML | Natur-Museum, Luzern |
| NML (LINP) | Linsenmaier, W., private collection, in Natur-Museum, Luzern, Switzerland |
| NMMBP | National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung, Taiwan |
| NMNH | National Museum of Natural History, Washington |
| NMNZ | National Museum of New Zealand (formerly DMNZ), Wellington, New Zealand |
| NMP | Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
| NMPC | National Museum Prague (Národni muzeum v Praze), Prague, Czech Republic |
| NMPH | National Museum of the Philippines, Manilla |
| NMS | National Museum, Singapore |
| NMSL | National Museum of Sri Lanka, Colombo |
| NMSR | Naturhistorisches Museum im Thüringer Landesmuseum Heidecksburg zu Rudolstadt, Rudolstadt, Germany |
| NMSU | New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA |
| NMSZ | National Museum of Natural History, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| NMV | Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (official acronym for Museum Victoria; see also MV) |
| NMW | Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien, Austria |
| NMWZ | National Museum of Wales, Swansea, Wales |
| NNLH | Naturkundeabteilung des Niedersächsischen Landesmuseums |
| NOAS | New Orleans Academy of Science, Louisiana, USA |
| NPC | National Pusa Collection, New Dehli, India |
| NRIFSF | National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, Fisheries Research Agency, Shizuoka |
| NRMS | Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (= NHRS, NHRM, NRS) |
| NRS | Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (= NHRS, NHRM, NRMS) |
| NSIMB | Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polarund Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany |
| NSMT | National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (formerly National Science Museum (Natural History), Tokyo, Japan) |
| NSMT-MoR | Showa Memorial Institute, in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (formerly National Science Museum (Natural History), Tokyo, Japan) |
| NSMW | Naturwissenschftlich Sammlung Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| NSWA | New South Wales Department of Agriculture, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| NTDPIF | Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia |
| NTEIRC | Northern Territory Economic Insect Reference Collection, Darwin, Australia |
| NTM | Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia |
| NTOU | National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan |
| NTQIC | Northern Territory Quarantine Insect Collection |
| NTU | National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan |
| NTUM | National Taiwan University, Department of Zoology, Taipei, Taiwan |
| NUS | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| NWAFU | Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China |
| NYSM | New York State Museum, Albany, New York, USA |
| NZAC | New Zealand Arthropod Coll. Landcare Research (formerly N.Z. Arthropod Coll. DSIR), Mt Albert, Auckland, New Zealand |
| NZFRI | New Zealand Forest Research Institute, Rotarua, New Zealand |
| NZGS | New Zealand Geological Survey, Wellington, New Zealand |
| NZOI | New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington, New Zealand |
| OCMT | Odawara Carcinological Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| OCSA | Veterinary Research Institute, Onderstepoort, South Africa |
| OKC | Okada Collection (pers. coll.) |
| OLML | Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria |
| OMNH | Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka, Japan |
| OMNZ | Otago Museum, Otago, New Zealand |
| OOB | Laboratoire Arago, Banyuls-sur-Mer. |
| ORI | Ocean Research Institute, Durban, South Africa |
| ORSTOM | ORSTOM |
| ORTMANN | Ortmann (pers. coll.) |
| OSM | Ohio State University, Columbus, USA |
| OSUC | Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA |
| OSUO | Oregon State University, Faculty of Science, School of Oceanography, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. (Most specimens transferred to OS main collection). |
| OSUS | Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA |
| OUC | Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China |
| OUM | Hope Department Entomology, Oxford University, Oxford, England |
| OUMNH | Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK |
| OUMNH | Don't use this one |
| OUVC | Ohio University, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| OWU | Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio, USA |
| P.J.F.D | P.J.F. Davie (pers. coll.) |
| PAN | Museum of the Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland |
| PANZ | Plant Protection Centre, Auckland, New Zealand |
| PASSM | Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Massachusetts, USA |
| PBPI | Bureau of Plant Industries, Manila, Philippines |
| PCB | Broadhead (pers. coll.) |
| PCBP | B.P. Moore, Canberra (pers. coll.) |
| PCCJL | C.J. Louwrens, Hilversum, Holland (pers. coll.) |
| PCCW | C.H.S. Watts (pers. coll.) |
| PCDD | D.A. Duckhouse (pers. coll.) |
| PCE | Enderlein (pers. coll.) |
| PCGMD | G.M. Dunnet (pers. coll.) |
| PCGT | Günther Theischinger (pers. coll.) |
| PCK | Kolbe (pers. coll.) |
| PCNEW | New (pers. coll.) |
| PCP | Pearman (pers. coll.) |
| PCPZ | P. Zwick (pers. coll.) |
| PCRM | R. Mouchamps (pers. coll.) |
| PCRT | R. Traub (pers. coll.) |
| PCS | Sélys-Longchamps (pers. coll.) |
| PCSLS | S.L. Straneo (pers. coll.) |
| PCVK | V. Kessner (pers. coll.) |
| PCW | Winthem (pers. coll.) |
| PCWU | Wunderlich (pers. coll.) |
| PDPI | Papua New Guinea Department of Primary Industries, Boroka (formerly Konedobu), Papua New Guinea |
| PEM | Port Elizabeth Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
| PERC | Purdue Entomological Research Collection, USA |
| PHTMS | School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Sydney |
| PIP | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| PIZW | Polska Akademnìa Nauk Instytut Zoologìczny, Warsaw |
| PKHH | Private Collection of Kai Heller, Heikendorf, Germany |
| PLNZ | Plant Protection Centre, Lincoln, New Zealand |
| PMAM | Beijing Natural History Museum, Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| PMBC | Phuket Marine Biological Centre Reference Collection, Phuket, Thailand |
| PMGC | P.M. Giachino (pers. coll.) |
| PMH | Paul Hutchinson, Personal Collection |
| PMJ | Phyletisches Museum, Jena, Germany |
| PML | Portobello Marine Laboratory of the University of Otago, New Zealand |
| PMQ | Public Museum, Quebec, Canada |
| PMS | Slovenian Museum of Natural History (Prirodosloveni Muzej Slovenije), Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| PMV | Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| PNGDPI | Department of Primary Industries, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
| PNGM | National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
| PPC | M. Powell (pers. coll.) |
| PPPO | Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Oseanologi, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia |
| PPRI | Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, , Gauteng, South Africa |
| PRIV | personal collection (pers. coll.) |
| PRM | Peter Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| PSU | Portland State University, Oregon |
| PSV | P.S. Valentine (pers. coll.) |
| PU | Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| PUC | Beijing University, Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| PUM | Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy |
| PUO | Portland University, Oregon, USA |
| PWMP | Private Collection of Werner Mohrig, Puddemin, Germany |
| PZ | Peter Zwick (pers. coll.) |
| PZC | Peter Zwick personal collection, Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany (pers. coll.) |
| QDFI | Queensland Department of Forestry, Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia |
| QDPC | Queensland Primary Industries & Fisheries Collection |
| QDPI | Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| QIMR | Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| QM | Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| QMBA | Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia |
| QPIM | Department of Primary Industries, Mareeba, Australia |
| QUE | University of Queensland, Department of Entomology, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia |
| QUIL | Quilis Perez (pers. coll.) |
| QVM | Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
| QVMS | Queen Victoria Memorial Museum, Salisbury, Zimbabwe |
| RAME | Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England |
| RBINS | Royal Belgian Institut of Natural Sciences (Belgium, Bruxelles) = IRSNB |
| RBPC | Roger Bolin Private Collection |
| RCBA | R. Clarke, Byron Bay, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| RCSE | Royal College of Surgeons, London, England |
| RCSL | Royal College of Surgeons, London, England |
| RDAF | Research Department South East Asian Fisheries Development Center, Changi, Singapore |
| RDC | Research & Development Center for Oceanography, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| RDK | Roger de Keyzer, Sydney, Australia |
| REC | R. Eastwood (pers. coll.) |
| RFC | R. Field (pers. coll.) |
| Private Collection of Roland Gerstmeier, Munich, Germany | |
| RGMC | Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium |
| RGWC | R.G. Wind (pers. coll.) |
| RHF | R.H. Fisher (pers. coll.) |
| RIB | Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium |
| RLCOLL | Rauno Linnavuori collection (pers. coll.) |
| RM | Raffles Museum, Singapore |
| RMBM | R.M.Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis |
| RMC | R. Mayo collection, Medowie, New South Wales, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| RMNA | R. Mayo, Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| RMNH | Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie), Leiden, Netherlands |
| ROM | Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| ROME | Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| RSM | Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| RSQA | R. Storey, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| RUMF | Ryukyu University Museum, Fujukan, Okinawa, Japan |
| RUSI | Rhodes University, J.L.B. Smith Institution, Grahamstown, South Africa |
| RVAUC | The Royal Veterinary & Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| RWH | R.W. Hay (pers. coll.) |
| SAIAB | South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa |
| SAIMR | South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| SAM | South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa |
| SAMA | South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| SAMC | South African Museum Capetown |
| SANC | South African National Collection of Insects, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa |
| SBC | S. Brown (pers. coll.) |
| SBMNH | Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, USA |
| SCI. COLL. | Sci. coll. Mus. what is this??? |
| SCMR | Sphingidae Museum, Czech Republic |
| SCN | Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela |
| SCSFI | South China Sea Fisheries Institute, People's Republic of China |
| SCSFRI | SCSFRI |
| State Department of Agriculture, Hawaii | |
| SDEI | Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut Müncheberg |
| SDNHM | San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, USA |
| San Diego State University Museum of Biodiversity, San Diego, California | |
| SEME | Strickland Entomological Museum, Edmonton, Canada |
| SEMK | Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA |
| SEMON | Semon Collection (present whereabouts not traced) |
| SFC | Laboratory of Fishes, Shanghai Fisheries University, Shanghai, China [also as Shanghai Fisheries College] |
| SGPIH | Collection [Sammlung] Geological-Palaeontological Institute University of Hamburg Ggermany |
| SGT | S. Gaudaire-Thore (pers. coll.) |
| SHK | Saito Ho-on Kai Museum, Sendai, Japan |
| SIBAC | Southwest Institute of Biology, Chengtu, Guangxi, People's Republic of China |
| SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA |
| SIO-BIC | Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Benthic Invertebrates Collection |
| SIUC | Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illnois, USA |
| SIZK | I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Germany |
| SJJ | S.J. Johnson (pers. coll.) |
| SLC | S. Lamond collection, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| SM | Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA |
| SMBL | Museum of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Sirahama, Japan |
| SME | Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille, France |
| SMF | Naturmuseum und Forschungsinstitut, Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| SMITH | Smith, G.B. (pers. coll.) |
| SMK | Sarawak Museum, Sarawak, Malaysia |
| SMNG | Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz [previously Staatliche's Mus. Nat. Görlitz] |
| SMNH | Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, USA |
| SMNK | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe, Germany |
| SMNS | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany |
| SMP | Surinaams Museum, Paramaribo, Surinam |
| SMTD | Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany |
| SMW | State Museum, Windhoek, Namibia |
| SNCBSH | State of North Carolina Biological Station, North Carolina, USA |
| SNMBR | Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum in Braunschweig, Germany |
| SNSD | Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
| SRI | Serengetti Research Institute, Tanzania |
| SSC | Sacramento State University, Sacramento, California, USA |
| SSMNH | Swedish State Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden |
| STAC | Starý Collection (pers. coll.) |
| STM | Stettinger Museum, Stetten, Germany |
| STREITO | Streito Collection, Montpellier, France |
| STUM | Santo Tomás University Museum, Manila, Philippines |
| SUB | Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
| SUCN | State University of California, Northridge, USA |
| SUFS | Shimonoseki University of Fisheries, Shimonoseki, Japan |
| SUM | Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa |
| SWC | S. Watkins collection, Queensland, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| SWIBASC | Academia Sinica, Chengtu, Guangxi, People's Republic of China |
| SWIMS | Swire Institute of Marine Science, University of Hong Kong |
| SZCU | Department of Systematic Zoology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
| SZMN | Siberian Zoological Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia |
| SZVM | Station Zoologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France |
| TAIC | Texas A. & I. University, Kingsville, Texas, USA |
| TAL | T.A. Lambkin (pers. coll.) |
| TARI | Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute |
| TAU | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| TCAA | Townes Collection, American Entomological Institute, Ann Arbor, USA |
| TCWC | Texas A. & M. University, College Station, Texas, USA |
| TDA | Department of Agriculture, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| TDPI | Tasmania Department of Primary Industries, Hobart, Tasmania |
| TFDA | Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| TFIC | Tasmanian Forestry Insect Collection |
| TFMC | Insular Museum of Natural Sciences of Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
| TFRI | Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute, Taiwan |
| THOMPSON | Donald Thompson (pers. coll.) |
| THUP | Tunghai University, Taiwan |
| TINRO | Laboratory of Marine Studies, TINRO, Vladivostock, Russia |
| TIU | Tokyo Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan |
| TKPM | Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Tokushima, Japan |
| TL | T. Lambkin (pers. coll.) |
| TLM | Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria |
| TM | Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa |
| TMAG | Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania |
| TMC | Tate Museum Collection, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| TMG | What is it?? |
| TMH | Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| TMS | Toleco Museum of Health and Natural History |
| TMSA | Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa (Dr. S. Endrödy-Younga) |
| TNHC | Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, Texas, USA |
| TNHM | University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA |
| TS | T. Sakai (pers. coll.) |
| TSC | T. Sainval collection, Brussels, Belgium (pers. coll.) |
| TSMHN | Teylers Strichtina Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands |
| TT | Takahashi collection (pers. coll.) |
| TTMB | Természettudomanyi Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary |
| TTU | Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA |
| TU | Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| TUAT | Tokyo University of Agriculture |
| TZM | Tokyo Zoological Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| U*** | Univ. Philipp. |
| UAB | Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia |
| UAIC | University of Abidjan, Abidjan, Ivory Coast |
| UAM | Universidad de Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela |
| UANL | Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo León, Mexico |
| UAZ | University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA |
| UBC | University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| UBL | Université du Benin, Lomé, Togo |
| UC | Università di Catania (Itlay) |
| UCB | University of California, Berkeley, California, USA |
| UCBZ | Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia |
| UCC | University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| UCDC | University of California, Davis, USA |
| UCLZ | University College London Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, London, England |
| UCM | University of Colorado, Colorado, USA |
| UCME | UCME Madrid University |
| UCNC | University of California Nematode Collection, Davis, USA |
| UCO | Universitè Catholique de l’Quest, Angers |
| UCP | Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia |
| UCR | Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica |
| UCRE | UCR Entomological Teaching and Research Collection, University of California, Riverside, California, USA |
| UCRNC | University of California Riverside Nematode Collection |
| UCS | University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA |
| UCZEL | Entomology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, India |
| UDO | Universidad de Oriente, Cumana, Venezuela |
| UDSM | University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| UF | University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA |
| UG | University of Ghana, Georgetown, Guyana |
| UGG | University of Guam, Guam, USA |
| UH | University of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA |
| UI | University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
| UIM | University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA |
| UIMNH | University of Illinois, Museum of Natural History, Urbana, Illinois, USA |
| UK | University of Kentucky, Kentucky, USA |
| UKI | Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India |
| UKS | University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan |
| UL | University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
| ULQC | University of Laval, Quebec, Canada |
| UM | Umtali Museum, Zimbabwe |
| UMA | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA |
| UMB | ¿berseemuseum, Bremen or Department of Zoology, University of Bremen |
| UMBB | Übersee-Museum, Bremen or Department of Zoology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany |
| UMF | University of Miami, Miami, USA |
| UMKC | University of Missouri, Colombia, Missouri, USA |
| UMKL | University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| UMMZ | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
| UMN | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| UMRM | W.R. Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA |
| UMS | Universitii Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia |
| UMUT | University Museum (and Misaki Marine Biological Station) of the University of Tokyo, Japan |
| UMZC | University Museum, Department of Zoology, Cambridge, England |
| UN | University of Nebraska, Nebraska, USA |
| UNAM | Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México |
| UNEA | University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia |
| UNM | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
| UNSW | University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| UO | University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA |
| UOMNH | University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA |
| UOP | University of Opole, Opole, Poland |
| UP | University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
| UPLB | Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines, Lons Banos, Laguna, Philippines |
| UPM | University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines |
| UPNG | University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
| UPRM | University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico |
| UPRP | University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico |
| UPSA | Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| UPSL | University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| UQBA | Department of Entomology, Queensland University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| UQIC [in QM/QMB from Dec 2011] | University of Queensland Insect Collection, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| URB | Ryukyu University Department of Zoology, Nakagusuku, Okinawa, Japan |
| URM | University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan |
| USBS | School of Biological Sciences, University of Science, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia |
| USCP | University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines |
| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA |
| USF | University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA |
| USNEC | United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
| USNHC | United States National Helminthological Collection |
| USNM | US National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA |
| USNPC | United States National Parasite Collection, Beltsville, Maryland, USA |
| USP | University of South Pacific, Institute of Marine Resources, Suva, Fiji |
| UT | University of Tasmania, Australia |
| UTA | University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, USA |
| UTC | University of Tasmania |
| UTEP | University of Texas, El Paso, Texas, USA |
| UTG | University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany |
| UTZM | University of Tsukubo, Zoological Museum (the Oka Collection), Okayama, Japan |
| UU | University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| UUZM | Universitets Zoologiska Museum, Uppsala, Sweden |
| UV | Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia |
| UVG | Universidad del Valle, Cuidad, Guatemala |
| UW | University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| UWA | University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| UWMP | Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Muzeum Przyrodnicze, Warsaw, Poland |
| UWP | University of Wrocklaw, Poland |
| UZM | Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| UZMH | University Museum (Zoology), Helsinki, Finland (= ZMHH, MZH) |
| UZMO | Zoologisches Museum Universitäts Oslo, Oslo, Norway |
| VAIC | Victorian Agricultural Insect Collection, Department of Agriculture, Knoxfield, VIC, Australia |
| VIGIS | Institute of Helminthology, Moscow, RUSSIA |
| VK | Vladimír Kalík (pers. coll.) |
| VKC | Vince Kessner Collection (Adelaide River, NT, Australia) |
| VMM | Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Long Island, New York, USA |
| VMNH | Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, Virginia, USA |
| VNHM | Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (= NHMW, NHMV, ZMV) |
| VNIRO | Institute of Oceanography, Moscow, Russia |
| VNNM | VNNM (?) |
| VRBCM | Vratislav Richard Bejsak-Colloredo-Mansfeld (Personal Collection), Sydney, Australia |
| VUC | Zoology Museum, Victoria University College, Wellington, New Zealand (= VUW) |
| VUW | Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (see also VUC) |
| WADA | Western Australia Department of Agriculture, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| WADAK | Western Australia Department of Agriculture, Kununurra |
| WAM | Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| WARI | Waite Campus, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| WAU | Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands |
| WCUUM | West China Union University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China |
| William F. Barr Museum, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States | |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA |
| WILLIAMS | Williams, G. (pers. coll.) |
| WINC | Waite Insect and Nematode Collection, Waite Campus, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide |
| WNS | Wiesbaden Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlung der Stadt, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| WOLL | University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia |
| Private Collection of Weston Opitz, Florida, United States | |
| WPC | Walford-Huggins (pers. coll.) |
| WSPC | William D. Sumlin (pers. coll.) |
| WSU | Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA |
| WUM | University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| WVBS | West Virginia Biological Survey, Virginia, USA |
| XFCFC | Xiamen Fisheries College, Fujian, China |
| YCM | Yokosuka City Museum, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan |
| YHPC | Yamaguti Helminthological Pers. Coll. |
| YNU | Geological Institute, Yokohoma National University, Yokohoma, Japan |
| YPM | Yale University, Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| YTKC | Yoshio Taki (pers. coll.) |
| ZAMU | Zoological Museum, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| ZANU | Divison of Botany and Zoology, School of Life Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (pers. coll.) |
| ZCUV | Zoological Collection University of Vienna |
| ZDEU | Ege Universitesi, Bornova, Turkey |
| ZDKU | Kharkov University, Russia |
| ZFMK | Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum 'Alexander Koenig', Bonn, Germany |
| ZFSN | Laboratoire de Zoologie de la Faculté des Sciences, Nancy, France |
| ZIA | Armenian Academy of Sciences, Armenia |
| ZIAS | Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg (= ZIN, ZISP, ZIL) |
| ZIH | Martin Luther Universität, Halle, Germany |
| ZIHU | Hiroshima University, Japan |
| ZIJ | Zoological Institute, University of Jena, Germany |
| ZIK | Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, The Ukraine |
| ZIL | Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St Petersburg, Russia (= ZISP) |
| ZIMG | Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Greifswald, Germany |
| ZIN | Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg |
| ZIS | Universität Saarbrücken, Germany |
| ZISP | Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia (= ZIL) |
| ZIT | Grusinian Academy of Sciences, Russia |
| ZIUG | Zoological Institute of Graz University |
| ZIUL | Zoologisches Institut der Universität, Leipzig, Germany |
| ZIUN | Università di Napoli, Museo de Zoologia, Napoli, Italie |
| ZIUS | Universitets Stockholm, Sweden |
| ZIUT | Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| ZIUU | Uppsala Universitets Zoologiska Museum, Uppsala, Sweden |
| ZIUW | Universität Wien, Austria |
| ZIUZ | Zagreb University, Zagreb, Croatia |
| ZLKU | Zoological Laboratory Kyushu University, Japan |
| ZMA | Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (collection now housed at Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands) |
| ZMAU | Zoological Museum, Andhra University, Waltair, India |
| ZMB | Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (= ZMHB, ZMHU) |
| ZMBN | Zoological Museum, University of Bergen, Norway |
| ZMC | Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| ZMG | Zoologisches Museum, Göttingen, Germany |
| ZMH | Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
| ZMHB | Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany (= ZMB, ZMHU) |
| ZMHH | Zoologiska Museum, Helsinki, Finland (= UZMH, MZH) |
| ZMHU | Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin (= ZMHB) |
| ZMK | Zoologisches Museum der Universität Kiel, Germany |
| ZML | St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia |
| ZMLG | Zoologisches Museum, Lübeck, Germany |
| ZMLU | Universitets Lund, Lund, Sweden |
| ZMM | Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (= ZMMU) |
| ZMMU | Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (= ZMM) |
| ZMPA | Museum of the Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science, Warszawa [=Warsaw], Poland |
| ZMT | Georgian State Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia, Russia |
| ZMTUR | Zoological Museum, University of Turku, Turku, Finland |
| ZMU | Zoological Museum, University of Uppsala |
| ZMUA | Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam |
| ZMUB | Universitetet i Bergen, Zoologisk Museum, Bergen, Norway |
| ZMUC | Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| ZMUK | Zoological Museum, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany |
| ZMUM | Zoological Museum, Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia |
| ZMUZ | Zoologisches Museum der Universität Zürich, Switzerland |
| ZMV | Zoological Museum of Vienna (= Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria)(= NHMW, NHMV, VNHM) |
| ZRC | Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| ZSI | Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India |
| ZSM | Zoologische Staatssammlung des Bayerischen Staates, München, Germany |
| ZSMB | Zoologische Staatssammlung, München, Bavaria, Germany |
| ZSMC | Zoologische Staassammlung des Bayerischen Staates, Munich |
| ZSP | Zoological Society of Philadelphia, USA |
| ZUCT | Department of Zoology, University College, Trivandrum, India |
| ZUM | Zurich University Museum, Zurich, Switzerland |
| cB | private coll. A. Bordoni (Firenze, Italy) |
| cN | private coll. J. Nunn (Dunedin, NZ) |
| cPJ | private collection Pawel Jaloszynski, Wrocław, Poland |
| ectosymbiotic |