APPENDIX II: MUSEUM ABBREVIATIONS LIST

With the addition of IMC, MASN, MHND, MHNT, MZT, NUH, RCSM, SIZ, and ZMUP, and the updating of some mailing addresses, this list of standard acronym codes for museums and systematics collections holding crocodilian, tuatara, and turtle type material was derived from Leviton, Gibbs, Heal, and Dawson 1985, Copeia (3):802-832, and Leviton and Gibbs 1988, Copeia (1):280-282.

AMG Albany Museum, Somerset Street, Grahamstown 6140, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.
AMS Australian Museum, P.O. Box A285, 6-8 College Street, Sydney South, New South Wales 2000, Australia.
ANSP Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th and the Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, U.S.A.
BMNH Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom.
CAS California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118, U.S.A.
CHM Charleston Museum, 121 Rutledge Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina 29401, U.S.A.
FMNH Field Museum of Natural History, Roosevelt Road & Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605, U.S.A.
FU Fudan University, Fujian, People's Republic of China.
IMC Indian Museum, Chowringhee, Calcutta 13, West Bengal, India.
KU University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, U.S.A.
LACM Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A.
MACN Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Bernardino Rividavia, Avenida Angel Gallardo 470, 1405 Capital Federal, Argentina.
MASN Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A.
MHND Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1 Avenue Albert I, 2100 Dijon, Côte d'Or, France.
MHNT Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Jardin des Plantes, Allée Jules Guesde, 3100 Toulouse, Haute Garonne, France.
MNHN Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 43 Rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris V, France. The MNHN comparative anatomy collection is indicated by the suffix AC.
MNRJ Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, 20942 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
MRAC Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, B-1980 Tervuren, Belgium.
MSNG Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genova `Giacoma Doria,' Via Brigata Liguria 9, 16121 Genova, Italy.
MTKD Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Augustusstrasse 2, 801 Dresden, German Democratic Republic.
MZT Zoological Museum, Ul. Vanemuizhe 43, Tartu, Estonian S.S.R., U.S.S.R.
MZUP Museo Zoologico, Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi 18, 90123 Palermo, Italy.
MZUS Musee de Zoologie, Universite de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
MZUSP Museu de Zoologie, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Caixa Postal 7172, 04263 Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
NMW Naturhistorisches Museum, Postfach 417, Burgring 1, A-1014 Wien 1, Austria.
NRM Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Box 50007, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
NUH Laboratory of Natural Science Collection, National University, Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
OUM Oxford University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
QM Queensland Museum, Gregory Terrace, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia.
RCSM Royal College of Surgeon's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2, United Kingdom.
RMNH Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Histoire, Postbus 9517, 2300 Leiden, Holland.
RSM Royal Scottish Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, Scotland, United Kingdom.
SIZ Shanxi Institute of Zoology, Shanxi, People's Republic of China.
SMF Natur-Museum und Forschung-Institut Senckenberg, Senckenberg Anlage 25, 6000 Frankfurt-am-Main 1, Federal Republic of Germany.
TMP Transvaal Museum, Paul Kruger Street, P.O. Box 413, Pretoria 0001, Transvaal, Republic of South Africa.
TNHC Texas Natural History Collection, Texas Memorial Museum, 24th and Trinity, Austin, Texas 78705, U.S.A.
TSMHN Teylers Strichtina Museum, Haarlem, Holland.
TU Tulane University, Herpetological Collections, Department of Biology, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, U.S.A.
UCM University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Broadway between 15th & 16th Streets, Boulder, Colorado 80309, U.S.A.
UF Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800, U.S.A.
UMMZ University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A.
USNM National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.
ZIUS Stockholms Universitet Zoologisk Institut, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
ZMB Museum für Naturkunde, Universitat Humboldt, Invalidenstrasse 43, 104 Berlin, German Democratic Republic.
ZMH Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Universitat Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, D-2000 Hamburg 13, Germany.
ZMUP Museo Zoologico, (Istituto di Zoologia, Zoologia Comparativo e Genetico) Università di Padova, Italy.
ZMUU Zoologiska Museet, Uppsala Universitet, P.O. Box 561, S-751 22 Uppsala, Sweden.
ZSI Zoological Survey of India, Fire Proof Spirit Building, 27 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, 700 016 Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
ZSM Zoologisches Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates, 19 Menzinger 71, 8000 Munchen 19, Bayern, Germany.

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