Museum Abbreviations

Museum acronyms for use in Type Material and Voucher Material search fields.

• AHC/SAMA Australian Helminthological Collection, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
• AHF Alan Hancock Foundation / Sponge and Misc. Invertebrate Collections, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
• AMNH American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• AMS Australian Museum, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
• ANSP Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Department of Malacology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• ARC-OVI Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum, Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA
• ASU Ain Shams University Faculty of Science, Zoology Museum, Cairo, EGYPT
• BAMU-CL Dr. B. A. Marathwada University, Cestodology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, INDIA
• BBC Bipin Bihari College, Jhansi, INDIA
• BBG Personal Collection of Dr. Boyko B. Georgiev, BULGARIA
• BMNH The Natural History Museum, London, ENGLAND
• CHIOC Coleção Helmintolgica do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/National Reference Centre for the Helminthological Collection, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
• CHURU Colección Helmintológica, Sección de Zoología de Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República del Uruguay, URAGUAY
• CIP Commonwealth Institute of Helminthology, ENGLAND
• CLGE Central Laboratory of General Ecology, BULGARIA
• CMNPA Canadian Museum of Nature, Parasitology Collection, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
• CNHE Colección Nacional de Helmintos del Instituto de Biología, MÉXICO
• CSAV Helminthologisches Institut der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften – Slovak Academy of Sciences – Institute of Zoology, Animal Ecology, Kosice, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
• CU Charles University, Department of Parasitology, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
• DAB Department of Animal Biology, University of Antananarivo/ Département d’Etudes Biologie Animale, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, MADAGASCAR
• ENVL Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon, Collection of Parasites, Marcy l’Etoile, FRANCE
• ESMK East-Slovakian Museum in Košice, SLOVAKIA / SLOVAK REPUBLIC
• GELAN Helminthological Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (now: Parasitological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), RUSSIA
• GNM Parasite Collection, Göteborg Natural History Museum (Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum), Göteborg, SWEDEN
• HCUQ Helminth Collection, Department of Biology, Doha, QATAR
• HNHM Hungarian Natural History Musem, Budapest, HUNGARY
• HWML Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
• IINH Icelandic Institute of Natural History (was Museum of Natural History Iceland), Reykjavik, ICELAND
• IMC Indian Museum, Kolkata, INDIA
• INPA Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, BRAZIL
• IP-PAS Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, POLAND
• IPCAS Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice, CZECH REPUBLIC
• IPMU Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Quebec, CANADA
• KCEEM K.C. Emerson Entomology Museum, Oklahoma State University, Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
• LMPTV Laboratory of Marine Parasitology, Vladivostok, RUSSIA
• LRP Lawrence R. Penner Parasitology Collection, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, U.S.A.
• MACN Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
• MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology, Invertebrate Zoology Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• MD Museum voor Dierkunde (Zoology Museum of the University of Ghent), Ghent, BELGIUM
• MEPN Museo de Historia Natural, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, ECUADOR
• MHNFCUP Museu de História Natural, Reitoria da Universidade de Porto, Porto, PORTUGAL
• MHNGMuséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
• MHNLS Museo de Historia Natural La Salle / Museum of Natural History of the Foundation La Salle, Caracas, VENEZUELA
• MHNNKM Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BOLIVIA
• MHNP Museo de Historia Natural de Perú, Depto. de Protozoología, Helmintología e Invertebrados Afines, Lima, PERÚ
• MLP/UNLP Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Plata Departamento de Zoología de Invertebrados (Parasitología), La Plata, ARGENTINA
• MNHN Le Collection de Cestodes du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FRANCE
• MNHNC Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, CHILE
• MPM Meguro Parasitological Museum, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
• MSB Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Parasitology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
• MUW Medical University of Warsaw, Department of General Biology and Parasitology, Warsaw, POLAND
• MZUM(P)Museum of Zoology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
• MZUSP Museu de Zoologia Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, BRAZIL
• NIAID National Institute of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Reference Collection of Ticks and Parasitic Mites, Hamilton, Montana, U.S.A.
• NMNS National Museum of Natural Science, Zoology Department, Taichung, TAIWAN
• NMW Das Naturhistorische Museum Wien, Vienna, AUSTRIA
• NMWC National Museum Wales, Cardiff, H. Harford Williams Parasite Collection, WALES
• NNC National Nematode Collection, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, INDIA
• NNCNZ National Nematode Collection of New Zealand, Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd, Crown Research Institute, NEW ZEALAND
• NSMT National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, JAPAN
• PISAS Parasitological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
• PNC Purdue Nematode Collection, Department of Entomology, Entomology Environmental Laboratory, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.
• PRG Parasitology Research Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC
• QM Queensland Museum, Invertebrate Collection, Worms & Echinoderms Department, South Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
• RMB Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
• RMCA Royal Museum of Central Africa Zoology Collections – Vermes, Tervuren, BELGIUM
• RR Rothamsted Research, Nematode Interactions Unit, Nematode Collection, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, ENGLAND
• SBCSarawak Biodiversity Center, Kuching, Sarawak, MALAYSIA
• SMNH Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet), Collections of Invertebrates, Stockholm, SWEDEN
• SPUK School of Parasitology, Department of Zoology, University of Karachi, PAKISTAN
• UADZ Department of Zoology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, INDIA
• UBDMPS Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Microbiologia i Parasitologia Sanitàries, Helminthological Collection, Barcelona, SPAIN
• UBMZ Museum of Zoology, University of Bergen, Bergen Museum, Bergen, NORWAY
• UBS Universität Basel / University of Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND
• UCADZ Universidad de Córdoba, Departamento de Zoología, Córdoba, ARGENTINA
• UCCDZ Universidad de Concepcion, Departamento de Zoologia, Concepción, CHILE
• UCDNC University of California Davis, Nematode Collection, Davis, California, U.S.A.
• UCDZ Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, INDIA
• UCRNC University of California Riverside Nematode Collection, Riverside, California, U.S.A.
• UNLN University of Nebraska Lincoln Nematology, Plant and Insect Parasitic Nematodes, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
• UP Laboratoire de Biologie Animale de l’Université de Perpignan, Perpignan Cedex, FRANCE
• UPLB/CVM Parasite Collection and Reference Center, University of the Philippines Los Baños/College of Veterinary Medicine, Diliman, Quezon City, PHILLIPINES
• USDA-NC U.S.D.A. Nematode Collection, Agricultural Research Service, Nematology Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, U.S.A.
• USNM Natural Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Department of Invertebrate Zoology Research & Collection, U.S.A.
• USNPC U.S. National Parasite Collection, Beltsville, Maryland, U.S.A.
• VIGIS Institute of Helminthology, Moscow, RUSSIA
• W/L HC CSIRO – Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC), (CSIRO Wildlife Helminthological Collection), Canberra, AUSTRALIA
• WAM Western Australian Museum Arachnology, Entomology, Marine Invertebrates Department Collection (Worms Collection), Perth, AUSTRALIA
• WNHM Wrocław Natural History Museum, Wrocław, POLAND
• ZIN Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Laboratory of Parasitology/Laboratory of Parasitic Worms, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
• ZMA Zoölogical Museum Amsterdam, Vermes / Marine Plankton Collection, University of Amsterdam Faculty of Science, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
• ZMB Zoologische Museum Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde, Zoological Collection), Berlin, GERMANY
• ZMLU Zoological Museum Lund University, Vertebrate, Invertebrate, Entomological Collections, SWEDEN
• ZSI Zoological Survey of India, National Zoological Collections, New Alipore, Kolkata, INDIA