BAH: Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Helgoland [Heligoland]. Formerly: K鰊iglich Preuische Biologische Anstalt Helgoland founded in 1892. Note: part of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut since 1998. Schleswig-Holstein. Germany.
BAMZ: Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, Bermuda Zoological Society, Flatts Village. Formerly: Bermuda Natural History Society. Obsolete as: BZS, BNHS. Current as: BAMZ (fishes). Bermuda.
BAR: Kipsaraman Museum, Baringo. Note: affiliated with National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Current as: BAR (fossils). Kenya.
BC: Bethel College, Newton. Current as: BC (herps). Kansas. USA.
BCB: Bowdoin College, Fish Collection, Brunswick. Maine. USA.
BDSSI: Laboratory of the Biology Department, Shanghai Science Institute, Shanghai. Note: present status unknown. Shanghai. China.
BELUM: The Ulster Museum, Department of Natural Sciences, Belfast. Northern Ireland. United Kingdom.
BEV: Collection Biog閛graphie et Ecologie des Vert閎r閟, Laboratoire de biog閛graphie et 閏ologie des vert閎r閟, Montpellier. Note: collection established in 1967 and housed at Centre d'蒫ologie Fonctionnelle et 蓈olutive (CEFE) established in 1987 under the guardianship of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universit� de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le D関eloppement (IRD) and 蒫ole pratique des hautes 閠udes (EPHE) among others. Obsolete as: LBEV, LBUM (Laboratoire de Biog閛graphie, Universit� de Montpellier; presumably same as BEV collection). Current as: BEV (herps). Also as: EPHE (herps). See also: USTL. H閞ault. France.
BFRIRS: Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI), Riverine Station, Moishadi. Chandpur. Bangladesh.
BGG: Basque Government official repository institution for the District of Guipuzkoa, San Sebasti醤. Current as: BGG (fossils). Gipuzkoa. Spain.
BGR: Bundesanstalt f黵 Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe [Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources], Berlin. Current as: BGR (fossils). Berlin. Germany.
BGRHB: Bundesanstalt f黵 Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe [Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources] of Hannover-Buchholz, Hannover [Hanover]. Note: one of three institutions in Geozentrum Hannover. Obsolete as: BGHan. Current as: BGRHB (fossils). See also: BGR (Berlin). Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony]. Germany.
BGS: British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham. Current as: BGS (fossils). Also as: BGS GSM (fossils). England. United Kingdom.
BGSU: Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green. Note: fossil type specimens transferred to US National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Orton Geological Museum, Ohio State University (OSU) and University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology (UMMP). Current as: BGSU (fossils). Ohio. USA.
BHI: Museum at Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City. Current as: BHI (fossils). South Dakota. USA.
BIHM: Bihoro Museum, Abashiri. Current as: BIHM (fishes). Hokkaido. Japan.
BIKU: Department [Institute] of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac. Current as: BIKU (fishes). Also as: BIK (Biological Institute Kragujevac), FSUK (fishes, Faculty of Sciences). 妘madija. Serbia.
BIOUG: Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG), University of Guelph, Guelph. Current as: BIOUG (fishes, herps). Ontario. Canada.
BIUB: Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Biological Institute, Ulaanbaatar [Ulan Bator]. Current as: BIUB (herps). Mongolia.
BJC: Bijie College, Bijie. Current as: BJC (herps). Guizhou. China.
BK: Bio-Ken Snake Farm, Watamu. Kenya.
BKM: Trudovoy Slavy Museum, Soligorsk [Salihorsk]. Current as: BKM (fossils). Belarus.
BLIP: Biological Laboratory, Imperial Palace, Tokyo. Obsolete as: BLIH (Imperial Household), LIAIP (Laboratory of Ichthyology, Akasaka Imperial Palace), LICPP (Laboratory of Ichthyology, The Crown Prince's Palace). Current as: BLIP (fishes). Tokyo. Japan.
BLT: BioLab of Seshachalam Hills, Wildlife Management Circle, Kapilatheertham, Tirupati. Also known as: BioLab of Tirupati. Current as: BLT (herps). Arunachal Pradesh. India.
BMAG: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol. Current as: BMAG (fishes, fossils), CBMAG (herps). Also as: BRSMG (fossils), BCMAG (birds). England. United Kingdom.
BMB: Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton. Note: established in 1874; part of Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton and Hove. Includes: geological collections formerly on display in the Geological Gallery of Brighton Museum (dismantled ca. 1947). Current as: BMB (fossils). Also as: BMNHB (fossils). England. United Kingdom.
BMCHIHUAHUA: Universidad Aut髇oma de Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Current as: BMCHIHUAHUA (fishes). Chihuahua. Mexico.
BMKB: Brunei Museum [Muzium Brunei], Kota Batu, Bandar Seri Begawan. Current as: BMKB. Brunei.
BMMS: B黵germeister-M黮ler-Museum, Solnhofen. Current as: BMMS (fossils). Also as: BMM-S. Bayern [Bavaria]. Germany.
BMNHC: Beijing Museum of Natural History, Dongcheng District, Beijing. Formerly: National Central Museum of Natural History (1951�1962). Current as: BMAM (Recent fishes), BMNHC (fossils). Also as: BMNH (fossils), CNHM (herps), NHBM (fishes). Beijing. China.
BMR: Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford. Current as: BMR (fossils). Illinois. USA.
BMT: Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham. Includes: fossils originally accessioned into collections of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and now housed in the Thinktank Science Museum (TSM). Current as: BMT (fossils). England. United Kingdom.
BNHMD: Bengal Natural History Museum, Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling. Note: incorporated into West Bengal Zoo Authority (WBZA) in 2015. West Bengal. India.
BNHS: Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai [Bombay]. Includes: specimens formerly deposited at Konkan field station museum, Ratnagiri. Note: unregistered fishes from old BNHS collection tranferred to ZSI-WRC. Obsolete as: BNHM. Current as: BNHS (herps), BNHS A (amphibians), BNHS FWF (fishes). Maharashtra. India.
BNM: Botswana National Museum, Gaborone. Note: uncataloged herp specimens cited using field numbers (e.g., KHH). Current as: BNM (herps). Botswana.
BNM: Muzeul de Istorie Naturală Sibiu [Museum of Natural History Sibiu], Sibiu. Includes: Richard Breckner fossil collection. Note: part of Muzeul Natxional Brukenthal [Brukenthal National Museum]. Current as: BNM (entomology, fossils). Sibiu. Romania.
BP: Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Formerly: Bernard Price Institute (BPI) for Palaeontological Research until 2013. Current as: BP (fossils). Also as: BPI (fossils). See also: WUM. Gauteng. South Africa.
BPBM: The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Department of Zoology, Honolulu. Includes: fishes from National Marine Fisheries Service, Honolulu (NMFSH), formerly Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Honolulu (BCFH); fish types from University of Hawaii, Honolulu (UH). Obsolete as: BBM. Current as: BPBM (fishes, herps). Hawaii. USA.
BPM: Beipiao Paleontological Museum, Beipiao. Also known as: Liaoning Paleontological Museum (LPM), but that name also applied to separate museum in Shenyang. Obsolete as: LPM. Current as: BPM (fossils). See also: PMOL. Liaoning. China.
BRSUG: University of Bristol, Department of Earth Sciences, Bristol. Current as: BRSUG (fossils). England. United Kingdom.
BRT: Blue Resources Trust Ichthyology Collection, Marine Research and Consultancy, Kalkudah. Current as: BRT-I (fishes). Eastern Province. Sri Lanka.
BSC: Herpetological Collection of Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad (BIOECO), Museo de Historia Natural 揟om醩 Romay�, Santiago de Cuba. Includes: herps from Ansel Fong G. (AFG). Current as: BSC.H (herps). Santiago de Cuba. Cuba.
BSFC: National Ecology Research Center, Biology Survey, Fort Collins. Colorado. USA.
BSGLC: Buffalo State Great Lakes Center, Buffalo. New York. USA.
BSKU: Kochi University, Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Kochi. Formerly: Department of Natural Science, Faculty of Science until April 2017. Includes: material from Usa Marine Biological Laboratory and Kochi University, Faculty of Agriculture (FAKOU). Obsolete as: FAKOU, ZIKU. Current as: BSKU (fishes). See also: KCU (fossils). Kochi. Japan.
BSMP: Bureau of Science (BSM), Manila, Luzon. Note: completely destroyed Jan 1945 during World War II. Metro Manila. Philippines.
BSN: Biological Society of Nevada. Note: listed in error as Biological Survey of Nevada in Gilbert 1998:4; location and status of collections unknown. Nevada. USA.
BSNH: Boston Society of Natural History [now Boston Museum of Science]. Note: extant specimens now at Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). Massachusetts. USA.
BSPG: Bayerische Staatssammlung f黵 Pal鋙ntologie und Geologie [Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology], M黱chen [Munich]. Also known as: Pal鋙ntologisches Museum M黱chen [Paleontological Museum Munich] (PMM) used for public part of BSPG. Formerly: Bayerische Staatssammlung f黵 Pal鋙ntologie und Historische Geologie (BSPHG). Note: one of multiple institutions comprising and administered by Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns [Bavarian Natural History Collections] (SNSB). Obsolete as: BSM, BSP, BSPHG, BSPHM, BSPM. Current as: BSPG (fossils). Also as: SNSB-BSPG (fossils). Bayern [Bavaria]. Germany.
BSRT: Bureau of Scientific Researches of the Governor-General of Taiwan [Formosa], Taihoku [Taipei City]. Note: no longer extant; collection assembled by Masamitsu Oshima (1884�1965) who was Also associated with the Bureau of Civil Engineering and later with the Museum of the Institute of Science, Government of Formosa (ISFM, ISM, MISGF); status of herps cited from 揃ureau of Scientific Researches� by Oshima (1910) unknown except holotype of Psammodynastes compressus possibly extant at National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (NSMT). See also: MST, NTM. Taipei City. Taiwan.
BSUM: Geological Museum of Belarusian State University, Minsk. Current as: BSUM (fossils). Belarus.
BU: Boston University Collection, Boston. Note: some fishes at Gray Museum (GMWH). Massachusetts. USA.
BU: Butler University, Indianapolis. Note: historical fish collection (1874�1892) transferred in part to University of Florida (UF). Also as: BUI. Indiana. USA.
BUB: Museum of Department of Zoology, Bangalore University, Bengaluru [Bangalore]. Current as: BUB (herps). See also: CCB. Karnataka. India.
BXGM: Benxi Geological Museum, Benxi. Current as: BXGM (fossils). Liaoning. China.
BYU: Brigham Young University, Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Provo. Current as: BYU. Also as: MLBM (fishes). Utah. USA.
