Index Museorum | Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica

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The Index Museorum presents a directory for the museums, universities, institutions, private collections, and other repositories where type material of oligochaetes named in the accounts in this nomenclator have been deposited. During the preparation of the original volume of Nomenclatura Oligochaetologica (Reynolds and Cook, 1976), the authors established a four letter code for each repository of type material to eliminate confusion as the number of repositories increased. While many repositories include an acronym as part of the accession numbers assigned to type material that are the same as the acronym historically associated with that repository, many others have not established an institutional acronym that is associated with accession numbers assigned to types. Furthermore, the use of institutional acronyms (codes) and accession numbers for types discussed in historical and recent descriptions has been inconsistent, and sometimes misleading and/or incorrect. Institutions have changed names (usually for administrative, organizational, and/or political reasons), often resulting in new acronyms and names for the ‘collection’ in which type material has been archived. We have corrected these mistakes and also cross-referenced institutional codes when possible.
In the table below, we provide a quick link to the first letter of a museum’s assigned acronym.

On this table Click on the first letter in the acronym for the museum you are searching for:

OR — use your computer’s ‘Find’ or ‘Search’ option to search for a word in the museum’s name or location (e.g., ‘Bishop’ or ‘Hawai’i’ to find the information for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA).

We know that personnel and contact information for the museums, institutions, and repositories for the biological collections (as listed below) have changed over the years. Thus, we encourage users of this website – and in particular, the curators and administrative personnel associated with those collections – to contact us with corrections, updates, and other missing information as soon as possible (e.g., repository name, address, and the name and email address(es) of the curator, collections manager, and/or other contact personnel for inquiries regarding specimen deposition, and a URL for the website associated with that collection or repository.

Please Note: ‘[AT]’ has been substituted for the ”@” symbol in email addresses associated with curators, collections managers, and institutional contacts (below) to deter the ‘harvesting, mining, or sweeping’ of active webpages by programs initiated by virtual telemarketers, spammers, hackers, and similar ilk who perpetuate malware, adware, or otherwise congest the internet with programs that auto-collect valid e-mail addresses. Thus, you must replace the ‘{AT}’ (in email addresses noted on this page) with the ‘@’ symbol in order for your email message to be sent and received.

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AMNH – American Museum of Natural History, Department of Living Invertebrates, Central Park West
at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024 USA (Dr. Mark E. Siddall; siddall'[AT]’amnh.org) [N.O., p. 211]

AMNZ – Auckland War Memorial Museum, The Domain, Private Bag, Auckland 1, New Zealand
{Dr. R. C. Cooper?} [N.O., p. 211]

AMSA – Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 6140 Eastern Cape, Suid-Afrika
(Dr. Sarah Gess; s.gess'[AT]’ru.ac.za) [N.O., p. 211]

AMSS – The Australian Museum Department of Marine Invertebrates, 6 College Street, Sydney,
NSW 2010 Australia (Dr. Stephen Keable, Collection Manager, Marine Invertebrates) [N.O., p. 211]
(Stephen.Keable'[AT]’austmus.gov.au)

ANIC – National Earthworm Collection of the CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Canberra, Australia
(Dr. Robert J. Blakemore; rob.blakemore'[AT]’gmail.com) [additional contact information needed]

ANSP – The Academy of Natural Science of Drexel University, Department of Invertebrate Zoology,
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 USA (Mr. S. Fuller?)
[N.O., p. 211] (tel: 215-299-1000)

AUTG – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Science, Department of Biology,
Thessaloniki 541 24, Macedonia, Greece (Prof. K. Michalis)
website: http://www.bio.auth.gr/main/eng/index.htm

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