A
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata * = Parent institute |
|---|---|---|
| A | Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | Q568666* |
| AAC | Anhui Agricultural College, Department of Plant Protection, China | Q22110457 |
| AAG-UFU | Coleção de Anuros da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil | |
| AAI | Allahabad Acricultural Institute, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India | |
| AAS | Herbarium, Biosciences Division, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom | Q918757* |
| AAU | Herbarium, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark | |
| ABF | Acaroteca Berlesiana, Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Cascine del Riccio (formerly Florence), Italy | |
| ABSRC | AgroBioSys International Reference collection, Wetteren, Belgium | Q22110459 |
| AC | Amherst College [On permanent loan to University of Massachusetts, see MASS] | |
| AcAT | Agricultural Research Council – Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa | |
| AD | State Herbarium of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia | |
| AEI | American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA | Q23933017 |
| AFCU | Plant Protection Dept of the Agricultural Faculty, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey | |
| AFFBB | University of Ankara, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ankara, Turkey | |
| AFRI | African Butterfly Research Institute, Nairobi | Q23933113 |
| AFUA | Department of Biology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan | |
| AHF | Allan Hancock Foundation, Los Angeles, California, USA | |
| AHI | Alexander Humboldt Institute, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Bogotá, Colombia | Q4720532 |
| AI | Asociación Ictiológica, La Plata | |
| AIK | Arachnological Institute of Korea, Seoul, South Korea | |
| AJB | A.J. Bruce (pers. coll.) | |
| AJOU | Herbarium, Biological Sciences Department, Ajou University, Suwon City, South Korea | |
| AK | Herbarium, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand | Q758657* |
| AL | A. Laštuvka personal Collection, Prostejov, Czech Republic | |
| AL-MNRJ | Adolpho Lutz collection in MNRJ | |
| AM | Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Q769416 |
| AMS | See AM | |
| AMSA | See AM | |
| AMAZ | Herbario Amazonense, Universidad Nacional de la Amazónia Peruana, Iquitos, Peru | |
| AME | The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, USA (See MGCL) | Q22110460 |
| AMEC | Australian Museum Entomology Collection | |
| AMES | Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| AM(MMUS) | Australian Museum (Macleay Museum Collection) (see AM) | |
| AMG | Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa. Collection transferred to the PEM in 1993 | Q4709352 |
| AMNH | American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA | Q217717 |
| AMNZ | Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand | Q758657 |
| AMO | Herbario AMO, Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico | |
| AMS | [Australian Museum, see AM | |
| AMSA | [Australian Museum, see AM | |
| AMU | Nematode Collection of Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. India | |
| AMUZ | Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslini University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India | |
| ANIC | Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia | |
| ANSP | Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| APGD | Acari Collection of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark., USA | |
| ARIZ | Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona | |
| ASC | Deaver Herbarium, Biological Sciences Department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA | |
| ASCU | NSW Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange, New South Wales, Australia | |
| ASIZ | Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan | Q22110465 |
| ASIZB | Academia Sinica, Institute of Zoology, Beijing, China | |
| ASJ | Arachnological Society of Japan, Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan | Q11509040 |
| ASSAM | Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Circle, Shillong, Meghalaya, India | |
| ASU | Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA | Q670897 |
| AtlantNIRO | Atlantic Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography, Kaliningrad, Russia | Q23933193 |
| AUGD | Paleontological Type Collection, Geology Department, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| AUM | Auburn University, Alabama, USA | Q540672 |
B
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| B | Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin, Germany | Q163255 |
| BA | Herbarium, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| BAA | Herbario Gaspar Xuárez, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| BAAF | Institute of Plant & Environmental Protection, Beijing Academy of Agricultural & Forestry Science, Beijing, China | |
| BASU | Herbarium, Department of Biology, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran | Q4982044 |
| BAUC | Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China | |
| BBM | [Bernice P. Bishop Museum, see BPBM] | |
| BC | Herbario Institut Botànic de Barcelona, Spain | |
| BCIQT | Animal & Plant Quarantine Laboratory, Taichung Branch Office, Bureau of Commodity Inspection & Quarantine, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| BCPM | Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, Canada [same as RBCM] | |
| BDHU | Biological Department of Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, China | |
| BFU | Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China | |
| BG | Herbarium, Museum of Natural History, University of Bergen, Norway | |
| BH | L. H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. | |
| BHCB | Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
| BIGU | Herbario, Escuela de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala | |
| BIN | Biological Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia | |
| BISH | Herbarium Pacificum, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | |
| BKL | Herbarium, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York, USA | |
| BLCGE | Biological Laboratory, College of General Education, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| BLIH | Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household of Japan, Tokyo, Japan | |
| BLKU | Biosystematics Laboratory, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| BLT | Biological Laboratory, Shikoku University, Tokushima, Japan | |
| BLXU | Biological Laboratory of Xinjiang University, China | Q27902510 |
| BM | [Herbarium, The Natural History Museum, see BMNH] | |
| BML | [The Natural History Museum, see BMNH] | |
| BMNH | The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom. (Formerly the British Museum [Natural History]) | Q309388 |
| BMNHB | Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton, UK | |
| BMSYU | Biological Museum of Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China | |
| BNHM | Bombay Natural History Museum, Hornbill House, Mumbai, India | |
| BNHS | Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, Mumbai, India (see BNHM) | |
| BNM | Beijing Natural History Museum, China | |
| BO | Herbarium Bogoriense, Botany Division, Research Centre for Biology—LIPI, Cibinong Science Center, Cibinong, Bogor Regency, Indonesia | |
| BOC | Bingham Oceanographic Collection (in YPM), New Haven, Connecticut, USA | |
| BOL | Bolus Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa | |
| BOLO | Erbario, Sistema Museale d'Ateneo, Università di Bologna, Italy | |
| BOLV | Herbario, Nacional Forestal Martín Cárdenas, Cochabamba, Bolivia | |
| BPBM | Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | Q22110477 |
| BPI | U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI), US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA | |
| BPIH | Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Arthropod Collection, Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, USA | |
| BPIM | Bureau of Plant Industry, Manila, Philippines | |
| BR | Herbarium, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Domein van Bouchout, Meise, Belgium | |
| BRG | Guyana National Herbarium, Biology Department, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana | |
| BRH | Forest Department Herbarium, Ministry of Natural Resources, Local Government, and the Environment, Belmopan City, Belize | |
| BRIT | Herbarium, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, USA | |
| BRKMAHS | Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School, Baranagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India | Q19882251 |
| BRTC | Texas A&M Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, College Station, Texas, United States | |
| BRY | Stanley L. Welsh Herbarium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA | |
| BSI | Herbarium, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Botanical Survey of India, Western Circle, Pune, Maharashtra, India | |
| BSKU | Collection of the Laboratory of Marine Biology, Faculty of Science, Kochi University | |
| BSNU | Biological laboratory of Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China | |
| BSPU | Zoological Museum of Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia | |
| BVQC | Biological Laboratory of Qingdao Vocational and Technical College, Qingdao, China | |
| BYU | Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA | |
| BZL | Biologie Zentrum Linz, Linz, Austria |
C
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| C | Herbarium, Botanical Garden and Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| CAL | Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Botanic Garden, Howrah, Kolkata, India | |
| CALI | Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Calicut, Calicut, Kerala, India | |
| CALS | College of Agriculture and Life Science, Ankang University, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, China | |
| CALSSNU | College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea | |
| CAN | National Herbarium of Canada, Vascular Plant Section, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | |
| CANB | Australian National Herbarium, Canberra, Australia | |
| CAR | collectión Ictiológica Carlos A. Ardila Rodríguez | |
| CARE | Albert R. Estrada Collection, Havana, Cuba | |
| CAS | California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA | Q965731 |
| CAS-SU | [Stanford University collection in CAS] | |
| CAST | College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China | |
| CAY | Herbier de Guyane, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Cayenne, French Guiana | |
| CAU | Entomological Museum of China Agricultural University, Beijing, China | Q22110483 |
| CBF | Colección Boliviana de Fauna, La Paz, Bolivia | |
| CBG | Cell Biology and Genetics, Kunming Medical University, China | |
| CBGP | Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez, France | Q22110485 |
| CBM | Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Japan | |
| CBU | Herbarium, School of Life Science, College of Natural Science, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk, South Korea | |
| CBUG | Center for Biodiversity, University of Guyana | |
| CCB | Central College, Bangalore, India | |
| CCFES-Z | Colección de Coleópteros de la Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City, Mexico | |
| CCSU | Collection of Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China | |
| CDFA | Collection of Arthropods, Analysis and Identification Unit, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA [types of Blanc and Foote transferred to CAS] | |
| CDM | Courtenay and District Museum, British Columbia, Canada | |
| CDRS | Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador | |
| CEAM | Colección Entomológica del Colegio de Posgraduados, Campus Montecillo. Texcoco, State of Mexico, México | |
| CEMZ-P | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador sede Esmeraldas, colección de peces | |
| CEPEC | Herbário Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau, CEPEC, CEPLAC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil | |
| CES | Insect Museum at the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India | |
| CET | Centro de Estudios Tropicales, Sevilla, Spain | |
| CFM IEOMA | Colección de Fauna Marina del Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga | |
| CGE | Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK | |
| CGH | National Museum of Prague, Czech Republic | |
| CHAPA | Herbario-Hortorio, Botánica, Colegio de Postgraduados, Chapingo, Mexico State, Mexico | |
| CHAS | Chicago Academy of Sciences, Illinois, USA | |
| CHINM | Instituto Nacional de Microbiología, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [Transferred to MACN] | |
| CHIOC | Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| CHM | Charleston Museum, South Carolina, USA | |
| CHUFC | Coleção Herpetológica da Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil | |
| CHUNB | Coleção Herpetológica da Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brasil | |
| CIB | Chengdu Institute of Biology, Academia Sinica, Chengdu, Sichuan, China | |
| CICIMAR-CI | Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Colección Ictiológica, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México | |
| CIDA | Orma J. Smith Museum (College of Idaho, Caldwell) | |
| CI-FML | Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán | |
| CIIDIR | Herbario, CIIDIR Unidad Durango, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Durango, Durango, Mexico | |
| CINC | Herbarium, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | |
| CIS | Centre for Insect Systematics, Kangweon National University, Chuncheon, Korea | |
| CIUFES | Coleção Ictiológica, Departamento de Oceanografia e Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil | |
| CIUFSC | Coleção Ictiológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil | |
| CKB | Collection of Ján Kodada, Bratislava, Slovakia | |
| CLC | Capasso’s registered collection in Chieti (Italy) | |
| CLCB | [L. & C. Brévignon personal collection, see LCB] | |
| CLS | College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, China | |
| CM | Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| CMCC | Chongqing Museum, Natural History, Chongqing, China | |
| CME | Collection of the Medical Entomology of Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology Academy of Military Medical Science, Beijing, China | |
| CMK | Collection of Maurice Kottelat, Cornol | |
| CMNC | Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | |
| CMNFI | Canadian Museum of Nature [Fish collection], Ottawa, Canada | |
| CMNH | Chicago Museum of Natural History, Illinois, USA | |
| CMNZ | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand | |
| CMP | [Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, see CM] | |
| CMW | [Colonial Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, see MONZ] | |
| CMWM | see MWM | |
| CMZC | Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb, Croatia | |
| CNC | [Canadian National Collection of Insects, see CNCI] | |
| CNCH | Cuban National Collection, La Habana, Cuba | |
| CNCI | Canadian National Collection of Insects, Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Biological Research Division, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | |
| CNCO | Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Canada | |
| CNHM | Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, USA | |
| CNIN | National Collection of Insects, Instituto de Biología Universidad Nacional Autónoma, Mexico | |
| CNMS | National Museum, Sir Marcus Fernando Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka | |
| CNU | College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China | |
| CNUC | Chungbug National University, Cheongju, South Korea | |
| CNUI | College of Natural Sciences, University of Incheon, South Korea | |
| CNUIC | Chungnam National University Insect Collection, Daejeon, South Korea | |
| COI | Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal | |
| COI-WILLK | Herbarium of Henrich Moritz Willkomm at COI | |
| COL | Herbario Nacional Colombiano, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| Coll. Aarvik | Ås, Norway | |
| Coll. Arenberger | Vienna, Austria | |
| Coll. Attal | 5-15 rue Olivier Noyer, F - 75014 Paris | |
| Coll. Baldizzone | Asti, Italy | |
| Coll. Bassi | Torino, Italy | |
| Coll. Bouyer | Chênée, Belgium | |
| Coll. Boyer | lotissement L'Horizon, 13610 Le-Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France | |
| Coll. Clark | Benjamin Preston Clark | |
| Coll. Darge | Clénay, France | |
| Coll. Derra | Bamberg, Germany | |
| Coll. Fábián | György Fábián, Budapest, Hungary | |
| Coll. Fibiger | Michael Fibiger, Sorø, Denmark | |
| Coll. Gorbunov | Moscow, Russia | |
| Coll. Grange | Moulins-Saint-Hubert, France | |
| Coll. Gyulai | Péter Gyulai, Miskolc, Hungary | |
| Coll. Hättenschwiler | Ulster, Switzerland | |
| Coll. Herrmann | Freiburg, Germany | |
| Coll. Inoue | Hiroshi Inoue, Tsujido, Fujisawa, Kanagawa Pref., Japan | |
| Coll. Karisch | Demitz-Thumitz, Germany | |
| Coll. Kühne | Potsdam, Germany | |
| Coll. Langohr | Simpelveld, Netherlands | |
| Coll. Nel | La Ciotat, France | |
| Coll. Pinker | Vienna, Austria | |
| Coll. G. Ronkay | Gábor Ronkay, Budapest, Hungary | |
| Coll. Sugi | Tokyo, Japan | |
| Coll. Varenne | Nice, France | |
| Coll. Yamanaka | Toyama, Japan | |
| Coll. Yoshimoto | Tokyo, Japan | |
| CONN | George Safford Torrey Herbarium, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA | |
| CORBIDI | Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad, Lima, Peru | |
| CORD | Herbario, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Museo Botánico, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Córdoba Prov., Argentina | |
| CPARJ | Centro de Pesquisas Agropecuarias Centro-Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (formerly Instituto de Biologia Vegetal) | |
| CPH | Collection of Parasitic Hymenoptera of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China | |
| CPPSAU | College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China | |
| CP | Herbarium, University of Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| CPS | Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA | |
| CPV | private collection of Petr Viktora, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic | |
| CR | Herbario Nacional, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica | |
| CRE | [Costa Rica Expeditions, now in LACM] | |
| CSBD | Center for Biological Diversity, University of Guyana | |
| CSCA | California State Collection of Arthropods, Sacramento, USA | |
| CSCS | Insect Collection of Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China | |
| CSIC | Institute for Sustainable Agriculture Research, Córdoba, Spain | |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Entomology, Canberra | |
| CSUFC | C.P. Gillette Arthropod Biodiverstiy Museum, Department of Entomology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA [types of Tephritidae transferred to USNM] | |
| CSMU | Crimean State Medical University, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine | |
| CTES | Herbario, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina | |
| CTWM | See MWM | |
| CU | Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA | |
| CUI/CUIC | Cornell University Insect Collection, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA | |
| CUMZ | Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK | |
| CUMZB | Museum of Zoology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| CUPC | L. H. Bailey Hortorium Paleobotanical Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA [Paleontology use, Index Herbariorum abbreviation is BH] | |
| CUSAT | School of Marine Sciences Museum, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kerala, India | |
| CUVC | Herbario CUVC "Luis Sigifredo Espinal-Tascon", Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia | |
| CUZ | Herbario Vargas, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru | |
| CVRD | Herbário, Reserva Natural da Vale do Rio Doce, Linhares, Espírito Santo, Brazil | |
| CVULA | Colección de Vertebrados de la Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela | |
| CWNU | Life Science College, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002, China | |
| CZ | Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| CZACC | Colección Zoologia, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Havana, Cuba | |
D
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| DAC | Plant Protection Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt | |
| DAV | UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity, Plant Sciences MS, University of California, Davis, California, USA | |
| DBCUCH | Departamento de Biología Celular y Genética, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile | |
| DBNU | Department of Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (see also NKUM) | |
| DBSNU | Department of Biology, Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi, China | |
| DBSNUS | Department of Biology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China | |
| DBSU | Department of Biology, Shiraz University, Iran | |
| DBUA | Department of Biology of the University of the Azores, Portugal | |
| DCN-UNRC | Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina | |
| DEI | Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Deutschen Akademie der Landwirtswissenschaften zu Berlin, Eberswalde, Germany (formerly Institut für Pflanzenschutzforschung) | |
| DEIB | See DEI | |
| DEMV | Department of Entomology, Museum of Victoria, Melbourn, Austalia | |
| DEMSU | Department of Entomology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia | |
| DEZA | Dipartimento di Entomologia e Zoologia agraria ‘‘Filippo Silvestri’’ Universita` degli Studi di Napoli, Italy | |
| DFCH-USFQ | Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia Collection, College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador | |
| DFRIS | Donghai Fisheries Research Institute, Shanghai, China | |
| DM | Desjardins Museum, Port Louis, Mauritius (see MONZ) | |
| DMNH | Delaware Museum of Natural History, Greenville, Delaware, USA | |
| DMNS | Denver Museum of Nature and Science, USA | |
| DNHM | Durban Natural History Museum, Durban, South Africa | |
| DNMNH | Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (former Transvaal Museum), Pretoria, Republic of South Africa | |
| DPP | Department of Plant Pathology, Academy of Agriculture, Szczecin, Poland | |
| DPPN | Department of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China | |
| DPPGU | Department of Plant Protection, Guangxi University, Nanning, China | |
| DS | Dudley Herbarium at CAS | |
| DSIR | Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Auckland, New Zealand. (See NZAC) | |
| DSM | Darwin State Museum, Moscow, Russia (se SDMM | |
| DSZ | Department of Systematic Zoology, Ankara, Turkey | |
| DUKE | Herbarium, Biology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA | |
| DVDB | Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya | |
| DZSASP | Instituto de Zootecnica, Secretaria da Agricultura, São Paulo, Brazil (formerly Museu Paulista) | |
| DZKU | Department of Biology, Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi, China | |
| DZSJRP | Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, câmpus de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto | |
| DZUFMG | Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | |
| DZUFP | Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil (see also DZUP) |
E
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| E | Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK | |
| E-GL | University of Glasgow Herbarium [collections on permanent loan to E] | |
| EA | East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya | |
| EAMFRO | East African Marine Fisheries Research Organisation, Zanzibar | |
| EAP | Herbario Paul C. Standley, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras | |
| EBD | Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain | |
| EBRG | Museo de la Estación Biología de Rancho Grande, Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela | |
| ECBS | Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippines | |
| ECNU | State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China | |
| ECOCH | Ichthyological Collection of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) at Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México | |
| ECON | Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | |
| ECOSC | Ichthyological Collection of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) at San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México | |
| EFMEA | Entomologisches Forschungsmuseum Eyjolf Aistleitner, Feldkoch, Austria | |
| EHT-HMS | Edward H. Taylor-Hobart M. Smith collection [Now divided between FMNH and UIMNH] | |
| EI | Eugenio Izecksohn personal collection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| EIHU | Entomological Institute of the Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan | |
| ELDM | Erlianhaote Dinosaur Museum, Inner Mongolia | |
| ELFAU | Entomological Laboratory, Fujian Agricultural University, China | |
| ELKU | Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| ELMU | Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan | |
| ELPU | Entomological Laboratory, Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan | |
| ELSFC | Entomological Laboratory of the Southwestern Forestry College, Kunming, China | |
| EMEC | [Essig Museum Entomology Collection, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, see EMUC] | |
| EMEM | Entomologisches Museum Eitschberger, Marktleuthen, Germany | |
| EMHIU | Entomological Museum of the Hokkaido Imperial University, Japan | |
| EMNAU | Entomological Museum, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China | |
| EMNH | Estonian Museum of Natural History, Tallinn | |
| EMNSTU | Entomological Museum, Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, Yangling, Shaanxi, China | |
| EMU | Mazatlán Marine Station, UNAM, Mazatlán, Mexico | |
| EMUC | Essig Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA | |
| ENA | Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Brazil (formerly Escola Nacional de Agronomia) | |
| ENHM | Estonian Natural History Museum, Tallinn | |
| ENIH | Department of Entomology, National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan | |
| EPN | Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador | |
| ERA-WTN | E. Ross Allen-Wilfred T. Neill collection [Now in FSM] | |
| ERLPW | Entomology Research Laboratory, Providence Women's College, Calicut, Kerala, India | |
| ESAL | Herbário, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
| ESALQ | Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de SãoPaulo (ESALQ/USP), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| ESEE | Entomology Society of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt | |
| ESRI | Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute, Nantou | |
| ESUW | Insect Museum, Ecosystem Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA | |
| ET | Etsuzo Tsukada personal collection, Tokyo, Japan | |
| ETC | Entomology Type Collection, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA | |
| ETHZ | Entomologische Sammlung, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| EUMJ | Entomological Laboratory, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan | |
F
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| F | Herbarium, Botany Department, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA [Botany abbreviation, see also FMNH] | |
| FAC | Fujian Agricultural College, Fujian, China | |
| FAFU | Institute of Beneficial Insects, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China | |
| FAKU | Kyoto University, Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan | |
| FAM | Facultad de Agronomia, Maracay, Venezuela | |
| FCME | Herbario, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico | |
| FDS | Forest Department of Sarawak, Malaysia | |
| FDYP | Forest Department, Yunnan Province, China. | |
| FEB | Institute of Biology & Pedology, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia | |
| FFR | Zoology Museum of the Faculty of Fisheries, Rize University | |
| FH | Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | |
| FI | Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae, Sezione Botanica, Museo di Storia Naturale, Florence, Italy | |
| FKUN | Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan | |
| FL | Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil | |
| FLAS | University of Florida Herbarium, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A | |
| FLMNH | Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA | |
| FLOR | Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil | |
| FMC | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, Usa (See FMNH) | |
| FML | Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina | |
| FMNH | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA [For botany, see F] | |
| FMNHF | Fukushima Museum of Natural History, Fukushima, Japan | |
| FMNHH | Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland | |
| FMSM | Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | |
| FMT | Taiwan Provincial Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| FNIC | Fiji National Insect Collection, Suva, Fiji | |
| FNS | Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany [For botany, see FR] | |
| FNU | Herbarium, Bioengineering College, Fujian Normal University, Cangshan, Fuzhou, Fujian, China | |
| FR | Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany [See also FNS] | |
| FRH | Forest Rest House, India | |
| FRIM | Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur | |
| FRLM | Fishery Research Laboratory, Mie University, Shima, Mie, Japan | |
| FRNZ | Forest Research Institute (now Scion), Rotorua, New Zealand | |
| FSCA | Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, Gainesville, Florida, USA | |
| FSM | Florida State Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA | |
| FSTU | Faculty of Science, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan | |
| FT | Erbario, Centro Studi Erbario Tropicale, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy | |
| FU | Department of Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, Guangdong, China | |
| FU | Herbarium, Department of Forest and Forest Products Sciences, Laboratory of Wood Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan(Index Herbariorum) | |
| FUE | Fukuoka University of Education, Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| FUJP | Fukui University, Fukui, Japan | |
| FUM | Department of Plant Protection, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran | |
| FUMH | Herbarium, Department of Botany, Research Center for Plant Sciences, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran | |
| FUNED | Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
G
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| G | Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| GB | Herbarium GB, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden | |
| G-BOISS | Boissier Herbarium in G | |
| G-DC | Herbier de Candolle in G | |
| GC | Ghana Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Ghana, Legon | |
| GCM | Government College, Department of Zoology, Lahore, Pakistan | |
| GENT | Herbarium, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium | |
| GFJP | Herbário Guido F. J. Pabst, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Carangola, Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Carangola, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |
| GH | Gray Herbarium, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | |
| GICLA | Grupo de Investigación y Conservación de Lepidópteros de Argentina, Córdoba, Argentina | |
| GMC | Guangxi Medical College, Nanning, Guangxi, China | |
| GNM | Göteborgs Naturhistoriska museum, Göteborg, Sweden | |
| GMNH | Gunma Museum of Natural History, Japan (for Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva see MHNG) | |
| GNMT | Georgian National Simon Janashia Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia | |
| GNSS | GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand [Formerly Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences] | |
| GNU | Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, China | |
| GOET | Herbarium, Department of Systematic Botany, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany | |
| GPC | Giuseppe Platia personal collection, Italy | |
| GSC | Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Canada | |
| GSFPM | General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, Shenyang, China | |
| GUAY | Herbario, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador | |
| GUGC | Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China | |
| GZAAC | Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Havanna, Cuba | |
| GZNU | Guizhou Normal University (Guiyang, China) | |
| GZU | Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria | |
H
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| H | Herbarium, Botanical Museum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland | |
| HA | Herbario, Escuela de Biología del Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador | |
| HAC | Herbario, Academia de Ciencias, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Havana, Cuba | |
| HAJB | Herbario Prof. Dr. J. Bisse, Jardín Botánico Nacional, Havana, Cuba | |
| HAL | Herbarium, Institut für Biologie, Bereich Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle (Saale), Germany | |
| HAO | Herbario Antenor Orrego, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego, Trujillo, Peru | |
| HAS | Herbário Alarich Rudolf Holger Schultz, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
| HB | Herbário, Herbarium Bradeanum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| HBG | Herbarium, Biozentrum Klein-Flottbek, Hamburg, Germany | |
| HBI | [Hunan Normal University Department of Biology, see HNU] | |
| HCQC | Hao HUANG collection, Qingdao, China | |
| HDOU | Hope Department of Oxford University, United Kingdom | |
| HENNU | College of Life, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China | |
| HES | Hawaiian Entomological Society | |
| HKU | Department of Ecology & Biodiversity, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China | |
| HLMD | Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany | |
| HM | Private Collection of Henk van Mastrigt, Jayapura, Indonesia | |
| HMIM | Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum, Iran | |
| HMW | Hill Museum, Witley, England | |
| HN | Herbarium, Botany Department, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, National Center for Natural Sciences and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam | |
| HNHM | Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary | |
| HNMB | Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary | |
| HNMN | Herbario Nacional de Nicaragua, Universidad Centroamericana, Managua, Nicaragua | |
| HNNU | Department of Biology, Hainan Normal University, Haikou City, China | |
| HNU | Department of Biology, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China | |
| HNWP | Herbarium, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Museum of Biology, Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai, China | |
| HO | Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | |
| HOXA | Herbario, Estación biológica del Jardin Botanico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru | |
| HPUJ | Herbario, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| HSC | Herbarium, Biological Sciences Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA | |
| HTC | Hangzhou Teachers College, Hangzhou, China | |
| HU | Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [For herbarium, see GH] | |
| HUA | Herbario, Centro de Investigaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (CIEN), Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia | |
| HUEFS | Herbário, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil | |
| HUIC | Hokkaido University Insect Collection, Japan | |
| HUJ | Department of Zoology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | |
| HUJF | Fish Collection of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | |
| HUNAU | Institute of Entomology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, CHina | |
| HUNHM | Hokkaido University Natural History Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan | |
| HUS | Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan | |
| HUSCAP | Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan | |
| HUT | Herbarium Truxillense, Universidad Nacional de La Libertad-Trujillo, Trujillo, Peru | |
| HUW | Institute of Ecology, Hubei University, Wuhai, China | |
| HWML | Harold W. Manter Laboratory, University of Nebraska State Museum, Nebraska, USA | |
| HZM | Hamburg Zool. Museum, Hamburg, Germany | |
| HZU | Herbarium, Lab of Systematics and Evolutionary Botany and Biodiversity, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
I
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata
* = Parent institute |
|---|---|---|
| IADIZA, IAZA | Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de Zonas Áridas Mendoza, Argentina | |
| IAET | Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Estonian Agriculturul University, Tartu, Estonia | |
| IAH | Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Villa Leyva, Colombia | |
| IAN | Herbário, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Pará, Brazil | |
| IAPG | Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Laboratory of Fish Genetics, Libechov | |
| IARI | National Herbarium of Cultivated Plants, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India | |
| IAS-CSIC | Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain | |
| IASE | Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk, Russia | |
| IAVH | Instituto de Ivestigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leiva, Boyacá, Colombia | |
| IBSS | Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia. | |
| IBE | Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta 37, 08003 Barcelona (Spain) | |
| IBGE | Herbário, Reserva Ecológica do IBGE, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil | |
| IBMUNC | Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Instituto de Biología Animal, Centro Universitario, Mendoza, Argentina | |
| IBP | Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Vladivostok, Russia | |
| IBPN | Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia | |
| IBSC | Herbarium, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China | |
| IBSP | Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil [collection destroyed by fire, May 15, 2010] | |
| IBUNAM | Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico | |
| ICBAU | Insect Collection, Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China | |
| ICBFU | Insect Collection of Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China | |
| ICBNHM | Insect Collection of the Beijing Natural History Museum, Beijing, China | |
| ICCAU | Insect Collection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China | |
| ICCLS | Insect Collection, College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. (See NKU) | |
| ICCSU | Insect Collection of Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China | |
| ICG | Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk | |
| ICM | Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, Spain | |
| ICN | Herbário ICN, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
| ICN | Museo de Historia Natural, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| ICN-MNH | Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Coleccíon de Lepidoptera, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| ICN-MHN-L | Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Coleccíon de Lepidoptera, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| ICNU | [Insect Collection, College of Life Science, Nankai University, see ICCLS] | |
| ICSU | Insect Collection of Southwest University, Chongqing, China | |
| ICHUM | Invertebrate Collection of the Hokkaido University Museum, Sapporo, Japan; formerly ZIHU (Zoological Institute, Hokkaido University) from 1985 to 2014, renamed to avoid homonymy with ZIHU (Zoological Institute, Hiroshima University) | |
| ICZU | Insect Collection of Zhongshan University, China | |
| IDEA | Instituto de Agronomía, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile | |
| IEBR | Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam | |
| IEGU | Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China. (see GUGC) | |
| IENU | Institute of Entomology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China | |
| IEPA | Instituto de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas do Estado do Amapá, Maca´pá, Brazil | |
| IPAE-UB-RAS | Institute of Ecology of Plants and Animals of Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg | |
| IESNU | Institute of Entomology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China | |
| IEXV | Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico | |
| IEZU | Institute of Entomology, Zhongshan University, China | |
| IFAN | Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire, Université de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal [formerly: Institut Français d'Afrique Noire] | |
| IFML | Instituto Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina | |
| IGPUG | Institut und Museum für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany | |
| IGUS | Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany | |
| IHASW | Museum of Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China | |
| IHB | Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China | |
| IiAvH | Instituto de investigaciones Alexander Von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia | |
| IICT | Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| IIUN | Ile Ife University, Nigeria | |
| IJ | Herbarium, Natural History Division, Natural History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ), Kingston, Jamaica | |
| IM | Indian Museum, Calcutta, India | |
| IMBV | Institute of Marine Biology, Vladivostok, Russia | |
| IMC | Indian Museum, Chowringhee, Calcutta, India | |
| IML | Fundacion e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina | |
| IMNU | Department of Biology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, China | |
| IMZ | Museo ed Istituto di Zoologia Sistematica, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy (collection possibly transferred to MRSN) | |
| INB | Herbario, Departamento de Botánica, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica | |
| INBC | See INBio | |
| INBio | Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Coste Rica | |
| INBP | Inventario Biológico Nacional, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, Asunción, Paraguay | |
| IND-AN | Amphibian Collection, Instituto Nacional de los Recursos Naturales Renovables y del Ambiente, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| INEP | the Biological Museum of the Institute of Ecological Problems of the North, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, city of Arkhangelsk, Russia | |
| INER | Italian Natural Hystory Museum, Rome, Italy | |
| INHS | Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA | |
| INM | Irish National Museum, Dublin, Ireland | |
| INPA | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas de Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil | |
| INPC | National Pusa Collections, Division of Entomology, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi, India | |
| IOAN | Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia | |
| IOC | Fundação Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| ION | Institut Océanographique de Nhatrang, Nhatrang, Vietnam | |
| IOQ | Institute of Oceanology, Academia Sinica, Qingdao, China | |
| IORAS | Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| IOZ | Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China | |
| IPE | Institut für Pflanzenschutzforschung, Eberswalde, Germany | |
| IPPG | Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Academy, Guangxi, China | |
| IPUV | Institut für Paläontologie der Universität Wien, Austria | |
| IPV | Instituto de Patologia Vegetal, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Castelar, Argentina | |
| IRSM | Institut de la Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar, Madagascar | |
| IRSN | [Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, see IRSNB] | |
| IRSNB | Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (See also MRHN) | |
| ISAM | Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| ISEA | Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute for Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Novosibirsk, Russia | |
| ISEZ | Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Zoological Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Kraków, Poland | |
| ISNB | Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium | |
| ISTM | Institut Scientifique, Antananarivo, Madagascar [Status unclear. Some types may be at SANC or in MNHNP] | |
| ISTTU | Inst. Sci. Tech. Tokai Univ | |
| ISU | Illinois State University, USA | |
| ISZAF | Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Florence, Italy | |
| ISZB | Institut für Spezielle Zoologie, Berlin, Germany | |
| ISZP | Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Kraków, Poland | |
| ITFG | Institute of Tropical Forest, Guangdong, China | |
| ITZ | Institute of Taxonomic Zoology (Zoöligisch Museum), Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| IU | Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA | |
| IUQ | Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia | |
| IVIC | Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, San Antonio de los Altos, Venezuela | |
| IVPP | Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China | |
| IZ | Instituto de Zoología, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Havana | |
| IZAC | [Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, see IZAS] | |
| IZAM | Instituto de Zoologia Agricola, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela | |
| IZAS | Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Haidian, Beijing, China | |
| IZBE | Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia | |
| IZCAS | [Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, see IZAS] | |
| IZSNU | Institute of Zoology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China | |
| IZSX | Institute of Zoology of Shanxi, Xian, China | |
| IZTG | Institute of Zoology, Tblisi, Georgia | |
| IZUA | Instituto de Zoología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile | |
| IZUC | Instituto de Zoología, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile | |
| IZUG | Istituto di Zoologia, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy | |
| IZUSN | Instituto di Zoologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Portici, Italy | |
| IZUW | Institut für Zoologie der Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria | |
J
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata
* = Parent institute |
|---|---|---|
| J | Charles E. Moss Herbarium, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| JBSD | Herbarium, Jardín Botánico Nacional Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |
| JE | Herbarium Haussknecht, Institut für Spezielle Botanik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany | |
| JEPS | Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, California, united States | |
| JJ | Jorge Jim Private Collection, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| JLU | Department of Biology, Jilin University, Changchun, China. [formerly Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences] | |
| JNC | Jun Nakajima personal collection, Japan | |
| JNU | Herbarium, Faculty of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Chonbuk National University, Chonju, SOuth Korea | |
| JWEC | J.W. Evans collection [part of AMSA, on long term loan to NSWA] | |
| JXAUM | Insect Museum, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China | |
K
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata
* = Parent institute |
|---|---|---|
| K | Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK | |
| KADEC | Kadenschen Collection | |
| KAUM | Kagoshima University Museum, Kagoshima | |
| KFRI | Herbarium, Division of Botany, Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Trichur, Kerala, India | |
| KGU | Entomological Laboratory, Kagoshima University, Japan | |
| KH | Herbarium, Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, South Korea | |
| KIZ | Kunming Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Kunming, China | |
| KIZAS | Kunming Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Kunming, China | |
| KKIC | Kasetsart Kamphaengsaen Insect Collection, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand | |
| KLWEE | Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China | |
| KM | [Jagiellonian University, Poland, see MZUJ] | |
| KMNH | Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, Kitakyushu, Kukuoka, Japan | |
| KNA | Korean National Arboretum, Gwangneung, Korea | |
| KNHM | [Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, Kitakyushu, see KMNH] | |
| KNMB | Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Brussels, Belgium | |
| KPM | [Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, see KPMNH] | |
| KPMNH | Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| KPU | Laboratory of Entomology, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan | |
| KRMB | Koenig Research Museum, Bonn Germany | |
| KSC | Herbarium, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas | |
| KSEM | Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence, Kansas, USA | |
| KSP | Koleksi Serangga Papua, Jayapura | |
| KSU | Kansas State University Museum of Entomological and Prairie Arthropod Research, Manhattan, Kansas, USA | |
| KU | Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan | |
| KUB | Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| KUC | Kyushu University Collections, Biosystematics Laboratory, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| KUCGE | Kyushu University, College of General Education, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| KUEC | Kyushu University Entomological Collection, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| KUHE | Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan | |
| KUL | University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence, Kansas, USA | |
| KUM | Kyushu University Museum, Kyushu, Japan | |
| KUN | Herbarium, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming, Yunnan, China | |
| KUN (Japan) | [Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan, see FKUN] | |
| KUTK | Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Department of Agricultural Biology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea | |
| KW | M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| KWNU | Herbarium, Biology Department, Division of Life Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Kangwon-do, South Korea | |
| KYO | Herbarium, Botany Department, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan |
L
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata
* = Parent institute |
|---|---|---|
| L | Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University branch, Netherlands | |
| LACM | Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California, USA | |
| LAE | Papua New Guinea National Herbarium, Papua New Guinea Forest Research Institute, Lae, Papua New Guinea | |
| LBM | Lake Biwa Museum, Kusatsu, Japan | |
| LBP | Laboratório de Biologia e Genética de Peixes de Botucatu | |
| LCB | L. & C. Brévignon personal collection, French Guiana | |
| LCFM | Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, La-Chaux-de-Fond, Switzerland | |
| LD | Herbarium, Botanical Museum, Lund University, Sweden | |
| LE | Herbarium, V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia | |
| LEKPU | Laboratory of Entomology, Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan | |
| LFC | Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canada | |
| LG | Herbarium, Université de Liège, Belgium | |
| LiAvH | Instituto de investigacioes Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Colombia | |
| LIEB | Museum für Naturkunde, Leibnitz Institut für Evolution und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin formerly ZMHU | |
| LIHUBA | Laboratorio de Investigaciones Herpetológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires [now in MACN] | |
| LIL | Herbario, Fundación Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina | |
| LINN | Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK [See also LS] | |
| LIPI | Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Science), Jakarta, Indonesia | |
| LIRP | Laboratório de Ictiologia de Ribeirão Preto, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| LIS | Laboratory of Insect Systematics, National Institute of Agro-Environmental Science, Tsukuba, Japan | |
| LISC | Herbário, Jardim Botânico Tropical, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| LIV | Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, UK | |
| LIVCM | Liverpool County Museum, Liverpool, UK | |
| LKL | Liaoning Key laboratory of Urban Integrated Pest Management and Ecological Security, Shenyang University, China | |
| LL | Lundell Herbarium, Plant Resources Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA | |
| LMAD | Löbbecke Museum and Aquazoo, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| LMK | Landesmuseum Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria | |
| LMNH | Latvian Museum of Natural History, Riga, Latvia | |
| LMW | Landesmuseum Wiesbaden, Germany | |
| LNHMN | Leiden Natural History Museum Naturalis, Leiden, Netherland | |
| LNEP-UFF | Laboratório de Biologia do Nécton e Ecologia Pesqueira, Universidade Federal Fluminense | |
| LNK | Landessammlungen für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| LOJA | Herbario Loja, Departamento de Botánica y Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Nacional de Loja, Loja, Ecuador | |
| LP | Herbario, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina | |
| LPB | Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia | |
| LPUSP | Laboratory of Paleontology, Biology Department, FFCL, University of São Paulo campus de Ribeirão Preto (= FFCL/USP campo Ribeirão Preto), Ribeirão, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| LS | Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK [For botany, see LINN] | |
| LSAM | Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA | |
| LSL | [Linnean Society, London, see LS] | |
| LSSU | Laboratory of Animals Systematics and Faunistics of the Samara State University, Samara, Russia | |
| LSUK | Linnean Society, London | |
| LSUMZ | Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA | |
| LUES | Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| LZ | Herbarium, Department of Molecular Evolution and Plant Systematics, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Germany | |
| LZUH | Laboratoire de Zoologie, Université de Hanoi, Vietnam | |
M
| Acronym | Museum | Wikidata
* = Parent institute |
|---|---|---|
| M | Herbarium, Botanische Staatssammlung München, Munich, Germany | |
 M.W. | Melbourne Ward, personal collection | |
| MA | Herbario, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain | |
| MABRI | Museum of Azumino Butterflies Research Institute, Japan | |
| MACN | Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| MACT | Morone Amber Collection, Turin, Italy | |
| MAF | Museum of the Agriculture Faculty, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey | |
| MAFL | Plant Health Diagnostic Station, Advisory Services Division, MAF, Levin, New Zealand | |
| MAK | Makino Herbarium, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan | |
| MAKB | Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany | |
| MALUZ | Museo de Artrópodos de la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela | |
| MAPR | Herbario, Biology Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, USA | |
| MARNM | Maejo Aquatic Resources National Museum, Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand | |
| MASN | Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China | |
| MASP | Ministry of Agriculture, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| MB | Museu Bocage of the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (MNHNC) (Lisbon, Portugal) | |
| MBA | Museum de Buenos Aires | |
| MB-HNUE | Museum of Biology of Hanoi National University of Education. 136 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam. | |
| MBL | Museu Bocage, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal [destroyed by fire in March 1978] | |
| MBM | Herbário, Museu Botânico Municipal, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil | |
| MBML | Museu de Biologia Mello Leitão, Santa Teresa, Espiritu Santo, Brazil | |
| MBNH | Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |
| MBUCV | Centro Museo de Biología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela | |
| MCDE | Mitrani Center for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University, Sede Boqer, Israel | |
| MCG | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genoa, Italy | |
| MCLR | McGuire Center for Lepidoptera Research, Sarasota, Florida, USA | |
| MCN | Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil | |
| MCNA | Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, Vitoria, Spain | |
| MCNG | Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Guanare, Portuguesa, Venezuela | |
| MCNM | Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Madris, Spain | |
| MCP | Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil | |
| MCSNG | [Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Italy, see MCG] | |
| MCSNM | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, Italy | |
| MCSNV | [Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona, Italy, see MCV] | |
| MCSV | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona, Italy | |
| MCTP | [Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS, Brazil, see MCP] | |
| MCUF | McGuire Centre for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of the Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA | |
| MCV | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona, Italy | |
| MCZ | Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | |
| MCZH | See MCZ | |
| MCZR | Museo Civico di Zoologia, Rome, Italy | |
| MD | Museu Regional do Dundo, Dundo, Luanda-Norte, Angola | |
| MDPI | Department of Primary Industries, Mareeba, QLD, Australia | |
| MDUG | Museo Alfredo Dugès, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico | |
| MECN | Museo Ecuadoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Quito, Ecuador | |
| MEIM | Medical Entomology of Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology Academy of Military Medical Science, Beijing, China | |
| MEL | National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens, South Yarra, Australia | |
| MEUA | Museo de Entomología, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru | |
| MEUNT | Museo de Entomología de la Universidad Nacional de Tumbes, Tumbes, Peru | |
| MEUV | Museo de Entomología, Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia | |
| MEXU | Herbario Nacional, Departamento de Botánica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | |
| MFN (MfN) | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany | |
| MFNB | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany | |
| MFP | [Museo Felipe Poey, Havana, Cuba] (see MNHNCU) | |
| MG | Herbário, Departamento de Botânica, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil | |
| MGA | Museum Grigore Antipa, Bucarest, Roumania | |
| MGAB | Muzeul de Istorie Naturala Grigore Antipa, Soseaua Kisseleff1, Bucharest, Romania | |
| MGC | McGuire Centre for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Gainesville, USA | |
| MGCL | McGuire Centre for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Gainesville, USA | |
| MGH | Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg, Germany [now in ZMH] | |
| MGL | Natural History Museum of Lille, Nord, France | |
| MGUH | Geological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| MH | Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Southern Circle, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India | |
| MHB | Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany | |
| MHBU | Museum of Hebei University, Baoding, China | |
| MHNA | Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle d'Autun, Autun, France | |
| MHNB | Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Bucarest, Romania | |
| MHNC | Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru | |
| MHNCI | Museu de História Natural Capão da Imbuia, Curitiba, Brazil | |
| MHNCSJ | Museo de Historia Natural, Colegio San José, Medellín, Colombia | |
| MHND | Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Dijon, France | |
| MHNG | Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland [See also G] | |
| MHNIB | Colección de Referencia, Itaipú Binacional, Ciudad del Este | |
| MHNJP | Museo de Historia Natural "Janvier Prado", Lima, Peru | |
| MHNL | Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon, Lyon, France | |
| MHNLi | Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Lille, France | |
| MHNLS | Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Caracas, Venezuela | |
| MHNM | Enc. Herpetología, Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay | |
| MHNN | Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland | |
| MHNNKM/MHNNK | Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia | |
| MHNSM | [Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru] (see MUSM) | |
| MHNSR | Museo Municipal de Historia Natural de San Rafael, San Rafael, Argentina | |
| MHNT (Taubaté) | Museu de História Natural de Taubaté, Brazil | |
| MHNT (Troyes) | Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Troyes, France | |
| MHNT (Toulouse) | Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Jardin des Plantes, Toulouse, France | |
| MHNUC | Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia | |
| MHN-UCN | Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| MHNUN | [Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru] (see MUSM) | |
| MHN-UNSAAC | Museo de Historia Natural de Ia Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru | |
| MHU | Museum of Hebei University, Baoding, China | |
| MICH | Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| MIL | Milwaukee Public Museum, Herbarium | |
| MINGA | Muzeul National de Istorie Naturala Grigore Antipa, Bucharest | |
| MIZ | Museum of the Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland | |
| MIZA | Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Maracay, Venezuela | |
| MIZP | [Museum of the Institute of Zoology, Poland, see PAN] | |
| MJAS | Museum Johan Albert Schlosser (Whereabouts of collection unknown) | |
| MJMO | Entomological Museum "José M. Osorio" of the Deanery of Agronomy of the Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA), Lara, Venezuela | |
| MK | [National Museum of Kenya, see NMKE] | |
| MKRB | Museo de Entomología Klaus Raven Büller, Universidad Nacional Agraria la Molina, Lima, Perú | |
| ML | Muséum de Lyon, Lyon, France | |
| MLP | Museo La Plata, La Plata, Argentina [For botany, see LP] | |
| MLS | Museo de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| MLU | Zoologisches Institut, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, Germany | |
| MLUH | [Martin-Luther-Universität, Germany, see MLU] | |
| MM | Magdeburg Museum, Magdeburg, Germany | |
| MMB | Moravske Muzeum, Brno, Czech Republic | |
| MMBL | Manazuru Marine Biological Laboratory, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan | |
| MMC | Museo del Mar, Ceuta, Spain | |
| MMK | McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa | |
| MMO | Menkoi Museum, Ohshu, Japan | |
| MMS | MacLeay Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
| MMUE | Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK | |
| MMUM | see MMUE | |
| MMUS | [MacLeay Museum, Australia, see MMS] | |
| MN | [Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] (see MNRJ) | |
| MNCN | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain | |
| MNCNM | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain | |
| MNH | [Musei Nacionalis Hungarici, Hungary, see MNM] | |
| MNHA | Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan | |
| MNHCI | Museu de Historia Natural Capao da Imbuia, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil | |
| MNHGA | National Museum of Natural History Grigore Antipa, Bucharest, Romania | |
| MNHJ | [Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan, see MNHA] | |
| MNHL | Museum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Netherlands | |
| MNHM | Herbarium, Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz/Landessammlung für Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, Germany | |
| MNHN/MHNP | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France [The MNHN comparative anatomy collection is indicated by the suffix AC; Paleontology collections are labeled PA] | |
| MNHNC | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, Santiago, Chile [For herbarium, see SGO] | |
| MNHNCU | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Havana, Cuba | |
| MNHNL (Lima) | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Lima, Peru | |
| MNHNP | [Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France, see MNHN] | |
| MNHP | [Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France, see MNHN] | |
| MNHNSD | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |
| MNHSW | Museum Naturhistorischen Sammlung Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany | |
| MNHU | Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany | |
| MNHUB | see MNHU | |
| MNHUP | Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines, Los Banos | |
| MNHWU | Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, Poland | |
| MNK | [Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Bolivia] (see MHNNKM) | |
| MNKM | [Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia] (see MHNNKM) | |
| MNKP | [Museo Noel Kempff, Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia] (see MHNNKM) | |
| MNM | Magyar Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum Allattara (Hungarian Natural History Museum), Budapest, Hungary | |
| MNNC | [Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, see MNHNC] | |
| MNRJ | Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| MNS | [Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile, see MNHNC] | |
| MNVD | Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte, Dessau, Germany | |
| MO | Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA | |
| MOC | Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| MOL | Herbario, Departamento Académico de Biología, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru | |
| MOM | Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco | |
| MONZ | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongaewa, Wellington, New Zealand [formerly CM, DMNZ, and NMNZ] | |
| MPEG | Museu Paraense "Emilio Goeldi", Belém, Brazil | |
| MPL | Musée de Port Louis, Mauritius Institute, Mauritius | |
| MPM | Milwaukee Public Museum | |
| MPM (Japan) | Mie Prefectural Museum, Tsu, Mie, Japan | |
| MPU | Herbier, Institut de Botanique, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France | |
| MRAC | Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium | |
| MRCN | Museu Rio-Grandense de Ciências Naturais, Pôrto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
| MRGS | Museu do Rio Grande do Sul, Pôrto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | |
| MRSNT | Museo Regionale di Storia Naturale e mostra permanente del carretto siciliano. Terrasini (PA), Italy | |
| MRHN | [Muséum Royal d’Histoire Naturelle, Belgium, now IRSNB] | |
| MRNHS | [Muséum Royal d'Histoire Naturelle, Sweden, see NHRM] | |
| MRSN | Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, Turin, Italy | |
| MS | [Musée de Zoologie de l'Université de Strasbourg, France, see MZUS] | |
| MSC | Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA | |
| MSNG | [Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Italy, see MCG] | |
| MSNM | [Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan, Italy, see MCSNM] | |
| MSNS | Museo di Storia Naturale del Salento, Calimera, Italy | |
| MSNT | [Museo Regional di Storia Naturale di Torino, Italy, see MRSN] | |
| MSNV | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Verona, Italy | |
| MSNVE | Natural History Museum of Venice, Venice, Italy | |
| MSSRF | M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Kalpetta, Wayanad district, Kerala, India | |
| MSU | Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA | |
| MSUB | Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA | |
| MSUEL | Department of Entomology Collection, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA | |
| MSUMNH | Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Museum of Natural History, Alwarkurichi, Tamil Nadu, India | |
| MTD | Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany [Not to be confused with MTKD] | |
| MTKD | Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany [Not to be confused with MTD] | |
| MTM | [Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Hungary, see MNM] | |
| MTQ | Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, Queensland, Australia | |
| MU | Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Texas | |
| MUB | Institute of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic | |
| MUB | Herbario, Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Botánica, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain | |
| MUC | Museu Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| MUMF | Manipur University Museum of Fishes, Manipur, India (see also ZSI) | |
| MUN | Museo de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia | |
| MUP | Museu do Historia Natural, Universidade do Pôrto, Pôrto, Portugal | |
| MUPP | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland [For herbarium, see POZ-] | |
| MUS | Malaysia Universiti Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia | |
| Mus. Banks | Collection of Sir Joseph Banks (now mostly at BMNH) | |
| MUSM | Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru | |
| MV | w:Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia | |
| MVHN | Museu Valencia d’Historia Natural, Valencia | |
| MVMA | National Museum of Victoria, Department of Entomology, Abbotsford, Australia [Now at MV?] | |
| MVUP | Museo de Vertebrados de la Universidad de Panamá, Panama City, Panama | |
| MVZ | Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA | |
| MWM/CMWM | Museum Witt, Munich, Germany | |
| MZB | Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor, Java, Indonesia | |
| MZFC | Museo de Zoologia, from Facultad de Ciencias, Mexico | |
| MZH | Zoological Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FInland | |
| MZLS | Museo Zoologico La Specola, Florence, Italy | |
| MZLU | Museum of Zoology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden | |
| MZNA | Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain | |
| MZT | Zoological Museum, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia | |
| MZUB | Museo di Zoologia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy | |
| MZUC | Museo de Zoologia, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile | |
| MZUCR | Museo de Zoologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica | |
| MZUEL | Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil | |
| MZUF | Università di Firenze, Museo Zoologico La Specola, Firenze, Italy | |
| MZUFBA | Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil | |
| MZUJ | Zoological Museum, the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland | |
| MZUM | Museum of Zoology, University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia | |
| MZUN | Museum of Zoology, University of Napoli, Naples, Italy | |
| MZUP | Museo Zoologico, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy | |
| MZUR | Museo di Zoologia dell Universit di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy | |
| MZUS | Musée de Zoologie, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France | |
| MZUSP, MZSP | Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| MZUT | Museo di Zoologia, Instituto di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy [Now housed with MRSN] | |
| MZV | Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii (Museum and Institute of Zoology), Warsaw, Poland | |
See also
- Repositories (N–Z)
- Category:Private collections
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