ABBREVIATIONS OF REPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS


AMNH: American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, U.S.A.

BM(NH): The Natural History Museum, London, England, U.K.

CCD: Cenozoic Coral Database, specimen database available at http://porites.geology.uiowa.edu

FMNH: Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.

MCZ: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

NF: Nancy Foster coral collection specimen numbers (specimens reposited at USNM)

NMB: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland

NMNH: United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

PRI: Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.

SUI: University of Iowa (formerly the State University of Iowa), Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.

TU: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.

USGS: United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, U.S.A.

USNM: United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

YPM: Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Link to: Type Collection of Stony Corals at NMNH



Last updated on October 24, 1996-afb.