Museum Abbreviations

This list have been extracted from the excellent website :
 http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/abbrev.php
 
 
 
AMNH American Museum of Natural History, New York 
 AMS Australian Museum, Sydney 
 ANSP Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 
 ASUC Ain Shams University Geology, Cairo. 
 BHU Benares Hindu University 
 BMNH British Museum (Natural History), London 
 BMSM Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum 
 BMUW Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle 
 BNHM Basel Natural History Museum 
 BRIT Biological Research Institute, Takarazuka, Japan 
 CAS California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 
 CMNH Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh 
 CMNZ Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand 
 CPAS Centro Português de Atividades Subaquáticas, Lisbon 
 DMNH Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington 
 ECU East Carolina University, Greenville 
 FLMNH Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville 
 FMNH The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 
 GDKU Geology Department, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 
 GITU Geol. Min. Tokyo Univ. Educ. 
 GIUT Geological Institute, University of Tokyo 
 GIYU Geological Institute, Yokohama National University 
 GMBI Geology Museum, Bandung, Indonesia 
 GMCE Geological Museum of Cairo, Egypt 
 GSI Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 
 HMNS Houston Museum of Natural Science 
 HNMB Hungarian National Museum, Budapest 
 HSGI Hungarian State Geology Institute, Budapest 
 HUJ Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem 
 IAUU Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Utrecht University 
 IGPS Geo-Paleontology Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai 
 IGUT Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba 
 IMT Institute of Malacology, Tokyo 
 IRSN Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels 
 JHU Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 
 JUE Joetsu University of Education, Niigata Prefecture 
 KIMN Kikuchi Institute of Malacology, Nishinomiya, Japan 
 KPMY Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Yokohama 
 LACM Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles 
 LMD Löbbecke Museum, Düsseldorf 
 LSL Linnaen Society of London 
 MACN Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia," Buenos Aires 
 MBA Museo de Buenos Aires 
 MBL Museu Bocage, Lisbon (See MZUL below) 
 MBML Missao de Biologica Maritima, Lisbon (See MZUL below) 
 MCNM Museo Cirico di Storia Naturale, Milan 
 MCZH Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge 
 MDNG Museum der Natur, Gotha 
 MFMJ Mizunami Fossil Museum, Mizunami, Japan 
 MHNG Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva 
 MIGK Museum of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Kyoto 
 MIGT Museo dell'Istituto de Geologia, Turin 
 MLPA Mueso de La Plata, La Plata 
 MNCM Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid 
 MNHB Museum der Naturkunde für Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 
 MNHN Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 
 MNHU Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universtät Berlin 
 MNRJ Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
 MORG Museu Oceanográfico da Fundação Universidade de Rio Grande, Brazil 
 MPUH Museum Poey, University of Havana 
 MSNP Museum di Storia Naturale, Universita di Pisa 
 MZSP Museo de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. 
 MZUC Museu Zoologico da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal 
 MZUL Museo Zoologico da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (incorporating MBL) 
 NHMW Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna 
 NMC Natur-Museum, Coburg 
 NMNL National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Leiden 
 NMNS National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan. 
 NMSA Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg 
 NMSF Natur-Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt 
 NMVM National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 
 NMW National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 
 NSMN Nishinomiya Shell Museum, Nishinomiya 
 NSMT National Science Museum, Tokyo 
 NZGS New Zealand Geological Survey, Lower Hutt 
 PRI Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca 
 RGM Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie, Leiden 
 RMSE Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 
 SAMA South Australian Museum, Adelaide 
 SBMH Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara 
 SMNS Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart 
 SUPT Stanford University Paleontological Type Collection 
 THTA Teramachi Hall, Toba Aquarium, Toba, Japan 
 TMGS Taiwan Museum of Geological Science, Taipei 
 TMH Tasmanian Museum Art Gallery, Hobart 
 TMUA Tate Museum, University of Adelaide 
 TRFR Tokai Regional Fishery Research Labortory, Tokyo, Japan 
 UBRG Université du Bordeaux, United Etudé de Recherches Géologique d'Aquitaine 
 UCBL Université ClaudeBernard, Lyon 
 UCMP University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley 
 USNM National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
 UUZM Zoologische Institute, University of Uppsala, Sweden 
 UZMC Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen 
 WAM Western Australian Museum, Perth 
 WFIS Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia 
 WPMN Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Wakayama City 
 ZMMU Zoological Museum, Moscow State University 
 ZMUA Zoologisch Museum, University of Amsterdam 
 ZMUC Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen 
 ZSIC Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India 
 ZSM Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich 
 
            





