Appendix 2: Voucher specimens

235 Pages·2008·1.69 MB·English

by  Ernest Seamark

African Chiroptera Report 2008 423
Appendix 2: Voucher specimens

Appendix 2a: Museum Acronyms and Number of Specimens

This appendix contains the acronyms and the full names of the museums from which specimens
were included in the "Voucher Specimens Details" appendix. Additionally, it gives the contact
information (for both plain and e-mail), as well as a reference to the museum's website and mammal
database. It also provides information about alternative names for the museum. These can include
older names or names in other languages. Finally, the appendix also gives the total number of
specimens from the museum included in the "Voucher Specimens Details" appendix.

Acronym Museum Info Nr

AMNH American Museum of Natural History 243
Contact: Nancy B. Simmons ([email protected])
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, New York 10024
United States
Website: www.amnh.org
Database: http://research.amnh.org/mammalogy/databases.php

BMNH The Natural History Museum 1648
formerly: The British Museum of Natural History
Contact: Miss Paula Jenkins
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
United Kingdom
Website: www.nhm.ac.uk

CAS California Academy of Sciences 51
Contact: [email protected]
875 Howard Street
San Francisco, California 94103
United States
Website: www.calacademy.org

CAWM College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka 3
Contact: [email protected]
Moshi
Tanzania
P.O. Box 3031 Moshi
Website: www.mwekawildlife.org

CM Carnegie Museum 785
Contact: John R. Wible, Suzanne B. McLaren
([email protected], [email protected])
5800 Baum Boulevard
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206-3706
United States
Website: www.carnegiemnh.org
Database: http://collections.carnegiemnh.org/mammals/holotype/

CNHM Chicago Natural History Museum (see Field Museum of Natural History) 1
Contact:
Chicago
United States
424 ISSN 1990-6471
Acronym Museum Info Nr

CU Cornell University, Section Ecology and Systematics, Ithaca [CUVM] 55
Contact: Kimberly S. Bostwick ([email protected])
Ithaca
United States
Website: http://cumv.bio.cornell.edu
Database: http://manisnet.org/

CZL Centro de Zoologia, Lisboa 8
Contact:
Lisbon
Portugal

DCDH David C.D. Happold Collection 148
Contact:
Canberra
Australia

DNSM Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban 471
Contact: Peter Taylor
1st Floor City Hall, Smith Street
4000 Durban
South Africa
P.O. Box 4085
Website: www.durban.gov.za/durban/discover-durban/our-
durban/museums/nsm

EBD Estacion Biologia la Doñana, Sevilla 1
Contact:
Seville
Spain

FMNH Field Museum of Natural History 532
formerly: Chicago Natural History Museum
Contact: Lawrence R. Heaney, Bruce D. Patterson
([email protected], [email protected])
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496
United States
Website: www.fieldmuseum.org
Database: http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/collections/search.cgi?dest=mml

HNHM Hungarian Natural History Museum 344
Hungarian: Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum
Contact: Gábor Csorba ([email protected])
Ludovika tér 2
H-1083 Budapest
Hungary
Website: www.nhmus.hu/index.php

HZM Harrison Institute 298
formerly: Harrison Zoological Museum
Contact: Paul Bates ([email protected])
St Botolphs Road
Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 3AQ
United Kingdom
Website: www.harrison-institute.org
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Acronym Museum Info Nr

IBINS Null 4
Contact:

IICA Instituto de Investigaçao Cientifica de Angola 3
Contact:

Portugal

KM Amathole Museum, King William's Town 328
formerly: Kaffrarian Museum
Contact: Lucas Thibedi
King William's Town
South Africa
Website:
www.museum.za.net/component/option,com_frontpage/Item
id,1/

KU University of Kansas, Natural History Museum 22
Contact: Robert Timm ([email protected])
Dyche Hall - 1345 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
United States
Website: www.nhm.ku.edu
Database: http://nhm.ku.edu/mammals/start.html

LACM Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 432
Contact: James P. Dines ([email protected])
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007
United States
Website: www.nhm.org
Database: http://www.nhm.org/research/mammals/collections.html

LNK Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe [SMNK] 12
formerly: Landessammlung für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe
Contact: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Wirth ([email protected])
Erbprinzenstr. 13
D-76133 Karlsruhe
Germany
Website: www.smnk.de

MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge 98
Mass.
Contact: Dr. Hopi Hoekstra ([email protected])
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United States
Website: www.mcz.harvard.edu
Database:
http://collections.oeb.harvard.edu/Mammals/MammalSearch
.htm
426 ISSN 1990-6471
Acronym Museum Info Nr

MHNC Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de La Chaux-de-Fonds 6
Contact: Arnaud Maeder ([email protected])
Avenue Léopold-Robert 63
CH-2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds
Switzerland
Website: http://cdf-mhnc.ne.ch/entree.asp/1-0-10-8016-433-207-1/3-0-
11-8016-433-207-0/

MHNG Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève 138
Contact: Manuel Ruedi ([email protected])
1 route de Malagnou
CH-1208 Geneva
Switzerland
P.O. Box 6434, CH-1211 Genève 6
Website: www.ville-ge.ch/mhng

MIZT Museo ed Instituto Zoologia, Torino 2
Contact:
Turin
Italy

MLZA Lisbon Museum 1
Contact:
Lisbon
Portugal

MMK Macgregor Museum, Kimberly 99
Contact: Beryl Wilson ([email protected])
5 Atlas Street , Belgravia
3801 Kimberley
South Africa
P.O. Box 316, Kimberley 3800
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za

MNCN Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 4
Contact: Josefina Barreiro Rodríguez ([email protected])
Madrid
Spain
Website: www.mncn.csic.es/home800.php

MNHN Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 311
Contact: Jacques Cuisin, Jean-Marc Pons
55 rue Cuvier
75231 PARIS cedex 05 Paris
France
Website: www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/transverse/transverse/accueil.xsp

MSB Museum of Southwestern Biology, Albuquerque 250
Contact: Joseph A. Cook ([email protected])
CERIA Building MSC03 2020 - 1 Univ. New Mexico
Albuquerque 87131-0001
United States
Website: www.msb.unm.edu
Database: http://arctos.database.museum/SpecimenSearch.cfm
African Chiroptera Report 2008 427
Acronym Museum Info Nr

MSNG Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 3
Contact:
Via Brigata Liguria 9
I-16121 GE Genoa
Italy
Website: www.museodoria.it

MSNM Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 11
Contact:
Corso Venezia, 55
I-20121 Milano
Italy
Website:
www.comune.milano.it/dseserver/webcity/Documenti.nsf/we
bHomePage?OpenForm&settore=MCOI-6C5J9V_HP

MSU Michigan State University, Mammal Collection, The Museum 28
Contact: Laura Abraczinskas ([email protected])
West Circle Drive
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
United States
Website: http://museum.msu.edu/
Database: http://www.gbif.org/ ; http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/manis/

MTB Null 1
Contact:

MVZ Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Univ. California, Berkeley 59
Contact: Eileen A. Lacey ([email protected])
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Berkeley, California 94720-3160
United States
Website: http://mvz.berkeley.edu/
Database: http://mvzarctos.berkeley.edu/SpecimenSearch.cfm

MWSU Midwestern State University, Dept. Biology, Wichita Falls 7
Contact: Frederick B. Stangl, Jr. ([email protected])
Bolin Hall - 3410 Taft Blvd
Wichita Falls, Texas 76308
United States

MZUF Museo Zoologico de "la Specola", Firenze 98
Contact: Paolo Agnelli ([email protected])
Via Romana 17
I-50125 Firenze
Italy
Website: www.msn.unifi.it

NAU Museum of Northern Arizona [-> MNA] 10
also: Northern Arizona University, Museum of Vertebrates
Contact: Janet Gillette ([email protected])
3101 N. Fort Valley Rd.
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
United States
Website: www.musnaz.org
428 ISSN 1990-6471
Acronym Museum Info Nr

NHMW Null 1
Contact:

NHMZ Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo 1280
Contact:
Leopold Takawira Avenue 1 - Centenary Park
Bulawayo
Zimbabwe
PO.Box 240
Website: www.zimheritage.co.zw

NM Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban (Pringle Collection) 11
Contact:
Durban
South Africa

NMB National Museum of Bloemfontein 832
Afrikaans: Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein
Contact: Ms W. Kaiser ([email protected])
36 Aliwal Street
9301 Bloemfontein
South Africa
P.O. Box 266 - 9300 Bloemfontein
Website: www.nasmus.co.za

NMBE Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern 21
Contact: Paul Schmid ([email protected])
Bernastrasse 15
CH-3005 Bern
Switzerland
Website: www.nmbe.ch/index.html

NMHZ Null 5
Contact:

NMK National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi 7
Contact:
Museum Hill
Nairobi
Kenya
Website: www.museums.or.ke

NMP National Museum (Natural History), Prague 10
Contact: Petr Benda ([email protected])
Václavské námestí 68
CZ-115 79 Prague
Czech Republic
Website: www.nm.cz/english

NMW Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien 104
Contact: Barbara Herzig ([email protected])
Burgring 7
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
Website: www.nhm-wien.ac.at
African Chiroptera Report 2008 429
Acronym Museum Info Nr

NMZ Null 3
Contact:

NMZL National Museum of Zambia, Livingstone 6
Contact:
Mosi-oa-Tunya Rd
Livingstone
Zambia

NRM Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Stockholm 21
Contact: Olavi Grönwall ([email protected])
Frescativägen 40
Stockholm
Sweden
Website: www.nrm.se

NZM Null 1
Contact:

OSU Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 9
Contact: Karen McBee ([email protected])
430 Life Sciences West
Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
United States
Website: http://zoology.okstate.edu/

PSM Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound 1
Contact: Gary Shugart ([email protected])
1500 N. Warner St. - CMB 1088
Tacoma, Washington 98416-1088
United States
Website: www.ups.edu/x5649.xml
Database: http://manisnet.org/

RBINS Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences 447
Dutch: Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen
(KBIN)French: Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique
(IRSNB)German: Museum für Naturwissenschaften
Contact: Georges Lenglet ([email protected])
Vautierstraat 29
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Website: www.naturalsciences.be/index_htm

Rennes University of Rennes 1
Contact:
Rennes
France
Website: www.univ-rennes1.fr/english/home
430 ISSN 1990-6471
Acronym Museum Info Nr

RMCA Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren 2741
Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika (KMMA)French: Muséum
Royale d'Afrique Centrale (MRAC)
Contact: Wim Wendelen ([email protected])
Leuvensesteenweg 13
B-3080 Tervuren
Belgium
Website: www.africamuseum.be/museum

RMNH Naturalis - National Natuurhistorish Museum, Leiden 190
formerly: Rijksmuseum voor Natuurlijke Historie
Contact: Dr. R.W.R.J. (René) Dekker [Director] ([email protected])
Darwinweg 2
NL-2333 CR Leiden
Netherlands, The
P.O. Box 9517 - NL-2300 RA Leiden
Website:
www.naturalis.nl/asp/page.asp?alias=naturalis.en&view=nat
uralis.en&id=i000256&frameurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturali
s.nl%2Fnaturalis.en%2Fnaturalis.en%2Fhome.html

ROM Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 2520
Contact: Judith Eger ([email protected])
100 Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6
Canada
Website: www.rom.on.ca/index.php

SAMC Iziko Museum, Cape Town 70
formerly: South African Museum
Contact:
25 Queen Victoria Street
Cape Town
South Africa
Website: www.iziko.org.za

SMF Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt 832
Contact: Dieter Kock; Gerhard Storch ([email protected],
[email protected])
Senckenberganlage 25
D-60325 Frankfurt
Germany
Website:
www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=71&preview=
true

SMG Steve Goodman collectors number 42
Contact:

SMNS Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart 135
Contact: Dr. Doris Mörike ([email protected])
Schloss Rosenstein
D-70191 Stuttgart
Germany
Website: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de
African Chiroptera Report 2008 431
Acronym Museum Info Nr

SMTD Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden 3
Contact: Dr. Clara Stefen ([email protected])
Königsbrücker Landstr. 159
D-0110 Dresden
Germany
Website: http://globiz.sachsen.de/snsd/default.htm

SMW Null 6
Contact:

SNP Skukuza National Park 3
Contact:

South Africa

SRSITE Null 1
Contact:

TM Transvaal Museum, Pretoria 7705
Contact: Teresa Kearney ([email protected])
Paul Kruger Street
Pretoria
South Africa
P.O. Box 413
Website: www.nfi.org.za/tmpage.html

TTU Texas Tech University, Lubbock (The Museum) 71
Contact: Robert J. Baker; Heath J. Garner ([email protected],
[email protected])
3301 W. 4th St.
Lubbock, Texas 79409-3191
United States
P.O. Box 43191
Website: www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu
Database: www.nsrl.ttu.edu/search/index.htm

UADBA Université d'Antananarivo, Departement de Biologie Animale, 9
Antananarivo
Contact:
Antananarivo
Madagascar
P.O. Box 906 Antananarivo
Website:
www.refer.mg/edu/minesup/antanana/sciences/bioa/lbpt/lbpt
.htm

UANK Ukrainian Academy of Science, Kiev 2
Contact:
Kiev
Ukraine

UCT South African Museum, Cape Town (University of Cape Town 1
Collection Number)
Contact:
Cape Town
South Africa
432 ISSN 1990-6471
Acronym Museum Info Nr

UIA University of Antwerp, Department of Biology 26
Contact:
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Antwerpen (Wilrijk)
Belgium

UMMZ University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology 24
Contact: Philip Myers ([email protected])
1109 Geddes Ave
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079
United States
Website: www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu
Database:

USNM United States National Museum, Washington 2938
also: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Contact: Michael D. Carleton ([email protected])
10th Street & Constitution Ave. NW
Washington DC 20560
United States
Website: www.mnh.si.edu
Database:

UWBM Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington 9
Contact: Jim Kenagy, Jeff Bradley ([email protected]
,[email protected])
UW campus at 17th Avenue NE and NE 45th St
Seattle, Washington 98195-3010
United States
P.O. Box 353010
Website: www.washington.edu/burkemuseum
Database: http://manisnet.org/portals.html

WNMU Western New Mexico University 23
Contact:
1000 West College
Silver City, New Mexico 88061
United States
P.O. Box 680
Website: www.wnmu.edu

YPM Yale Peabody Museum 6
Contact: Kristof Zyskowski ([email protected])
170–210 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
United States
P.O. Box 208118 (New Haven, CT 06520-8118)
Website: www.peabody.yale.edu

ZFMK Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig 321
Contact: Rainer Hutterer ([email protected])
Adenauerallee 160
D-53113 Bonn
Germany
Website: www.museumkoenig.de
Database: www.biodat.de/english/index2.html