Museums and Holding Institutions
The information on type material includes the name of the institution holding the type.
The list of museum abbreviations used is as follows.
AC - Azuma Collection.
AM - Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia.
AMNH - American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA.
AMS - Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia.
ANSP - Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
ASIZ - Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
AUGD - Geology Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand (now Geology Programme, School of Environment)..
AWM - Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand..
BMSM - Bailey- Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel,
Florida, USA..
BPBM - Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
CAS - California Academy of Sciences.
CAS[GTC] - California Academy of Sciences, Geology Type Collection, San Francisco, California,USA.
EFG - Emilio F. Garcia Collection.
GNSS - Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand (formerly NZ Geological Survey)..
HGL - Harry G. Lee collection, Jacksonville, Florida, USA..
HMNS - Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, USA..
IC - Ishikawa Collection.
IRSN - Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels, Belgium.
JC - Kyoto University Museum of Paleontology.
KC - Koyama Collection (partially deposited in Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History).
LACM - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA..
LACM-AHF - Allan Hancock Foundation, Los Angeles, California, USA.
MC - Manabe Collection.
MCZ - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
MCZT - Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma, Italy.
MFM - Mizunami Fossil Museum, Mizunami, Gifu Prefecture, Japan..
MHNG - Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland..
MIGM - Museo do Instituto Geológico e Mineiro de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal..
MLP - Museo de la Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.
MNRJ - Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
MOM - Museum of Monaco, Monaco.
MZB - Zoological Museum of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
NA - Nakayama Collection.
ND - Noda Collection.
NHMUK (BMNH) - Natural History Museum, London, UK (formerly British Museum of Natural History).
NM - Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
NMB - NMBNaturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland..
NMNZ - National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand.
NMP - National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.
NMSZ - National Museum of Scotland, Zoology, Edinburgh, UK.
NMV - Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia..
NMV / MV - Museums Victoria (formerly National Museum of Victoria), Melbourne, Australia.
NMW - National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
NNM (RMNH) - National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, Netherlands (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie).
NSMT - National Science Museum Tokyo and the Tshuba Research Center (MoR), Tokyo, Japan.
NTM - Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia.
OUGD - Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand..
OUM - Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, United Kingdom.
PPPO_LIPI - Institute of Oceonology, Jakarta, Indonesia.
RMNH / RGM - Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie / Rijksmuseum Geologie en Mineralogie (now Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands).
SaM - Senckenberg am Meer.
SAM - South African Museum, Capetown, South Africa.
SAMA - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia..
SBMNH - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
SDNHM - San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, California, USA.
SM - South Australia Museum, Adelaide, South Australia.
SMF - Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
SMF - Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt.
SU[PTC] - Stanford University, Paleontological Type Collection, Stanford, California, USA.
TC - Tanaka Collection.
UCMP - University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, California, USA.
ULPGC - Departmento de Biología, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria Island, Spain..
UMUT - University Museum of Paleontology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
UMUT - University Museum of Recent Mollusca, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Ciudad Mexico,Mexico..
UPSZTY - Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Sweden..
USNM - United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA).
WAM - Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia.
WC - Watanabe Collection.
WMNH - Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Wakayama, Japan.
ZIN - Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia.
ZISP - Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
ZMA - Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands (now part of Naturalis, Leiden).
ZMB - Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany.
ZMC - Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
ZMO - Zoological Museum, Oslo, Norway.
ZMR - Zoological Museum, Rome, Italy.
ZMUC - Universitets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen,Denmark.
ZSM - Zoologische Staatssammlung, Muenchen, Germany.