Compiled by:
Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
Center for Biodiversity
Champaign, Illinois, USA 61820
e-mail: ksc@inhs.uiuc.edu

Anton Oleinik
Purdue University
Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
West Layfayette, Indiana, USA 47907-1397
e-mail: OleinikA@vm.cc.purdue.edu

John H. Slapcinsky
ex. Field Museum of Natural History
Division of Invertebrates
Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Illinois, USA 60605
e-mail: slapcin@fmnh.org

The following list of mollusk collections has been compiled to aid researchers by providing an up-to-date list of curators, collection managers and a description of the collection (i.e. size, geographic scope, percent computerized, etc.). Links have been added to each museum where additional information can sometimes be found. If a link is not present please send an url or gopher address to Kevin Cummings (ksc@mail.inhs.uiuc.edu) and it will be added to the list. We would encourage any of the collections listed to provide a summary of their holdings or update an existing summary. We will date all new entries to provide a time reference to the information. Acronyms have been added to the list and have been taken from:

Leviton, A.E., R.E. Gibbs, Jr., E. Heal, and C.E. Dawson. 1985. Standards in Herpetology and Ichthyology: Part I. Standard Symbolic Codes for Institutional Resource Collections in Herpetology and Ichthyology. Copeia 1985(3):802-832.

If the acronym used for your mollusk collection is different from that listed by Leviton et al., please send an update to Kevin Cummings. Please feel free to link this list to other pages on the Web and to encourage those collections not represented to send an entry. Any comments or suggestions to improve this list would be greatly appreciated.

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Alaska

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM (UAM)
Aquatic Collection
907 Yukon Drive
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775
Curator: Ms Nora R. Foster
e-mail: fyaqua@aurora.alaska.edu
Phone: (907) 474-7994

Arizona

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (UAZ)
Dept. of Geosciences
Tucson, AZ 85721
Curator: Dr. Andrew S. Cohen
Phone: (602) 621-4691

Arkansas

THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM (ARK)
University of Arkansas
202 Muse
Fayetteville, AR 77201
Curator: Dr. Nancy McCartney
e-mail: nmccartn@saturn.uark.edu
Phone: (501) 575-4370
Fax: (501) 575-8766

380 lots of land snails (AR) (more to be curated), plus various unionids from the state.

California

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (CAS)
Invertebrate Zoology and Geology
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
Curator: Dr. Terry Gosliner
Collection Manager: Dr. Robert J. Van Syoc
e-mail: bvansyoc@calacademy.org
Phone: (415) 750-7082
WEB: gopher://cas.calacademy.org:70/11/depts

About 250,000 dry specimen lots and 40,000 wet specimen lots. Of these, collection records on 36,462 lots have been computerized; 3,627 are type specimen lots; most are marine. The geographic strength of our marine collection is in the eastern Pacific with world-wide coverage in some groups. Freshwater and terrestrial specimens are mostly from western North America. Our type collection is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.calacademy.org/. (July 1996).

THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (LACM)
Section of Invertebrate Zoology
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Curator: Dr. James McLean
e-mail: jmclean@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 744-3377
Collection Manager: Linsey T. Groves
e-mail: groves@bcf.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 763-3376 or 744-3485
Fax: (213) 746-2999

470,000 lots of mollusks; 50,000 lots and 12,000 collecting stations have been computerized. Marine mollusks represent about 80% of the collection, of which the Eastern Pacific from Alaska to Chile is best represented. The collection is strong in micromollusks, including unworked material from most marine provinces. The collection contains about 500 holotype and 1,000 paratype lots. (July 1996).

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (SBMNH)
2559 Puesta del Sol Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93105-2998
Curator: Dr. F.G. Hochberg
Howard-Berry Chair of Malacology: Dr. Henry W. Chaney
Collection Manager: Paul Scott
e-mail: inverts@rain.org
Phone: (805) 682-4711, ext. #318 (F.G. Hochberg), 319 (P. Scott), 334 (H. Chaney).
Fax: (805) 569-3170

200,000 lots of mollusks; approximately 5% are stored in alcohol and the remainder are dry or slide mounts. The marine collection contains 75% fo the total lots, mainly from the Eastern Pacific with strengths in bivalves, chitons, cephalopods, and gastropods. The terrestrial collection is 10% of the total with strengths in pulmonates from Western North America. The rest are freshwater mollusks, principally gastropods. Additional material focused on the parasites of mollusks, especially cephalopods, is contained in a microslide collection. We have over 2,000 primary types (holotype, paratypes, amd syntypes) with strengths in pulmonates, chitons, and cephalopods. For more information see our Web page at http://www.rain.org/~inverts/. (July 1996).

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY (SIO)
La Jolla, CA 92093-0208
Benthic Invertebrates Collection
Curator William Newman
e-mail: wnewman@ucsd.edu
Plankton Collection
Curator: Mark Ohman
e-mail: mohman@ucsd.edu

SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM (SIO)
P. O. Box 121390
San Diego, CA 92112-1390
Curator Collections Care: Dr. Paisley S. Cato
e-mail: pcato@sdnhm.org
Collection Manager, Marine Invertebrates: Patricia Beller
e-mail: pbeller@sdnhm.org
Phone: (619) 255-0188
Fax: (619) 232-0248

Colorado

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO MUSEUM (UCM)
Invertebrate Zoology
CU Museum of Natural History
UCB 265
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0265
Curator: Dr. Robert Guralnick
e-mail: guralnic@spot.colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 735-0178
Collection Manager: Gene Hall
e-mail: Eugene.Hall@colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 735-5262
Fax: (303) 735-2274

Approximately 40,600 lots including 273 type specimens (holotypes, paratypes or syntypes). Centered on the lifetime collection of one of the Museum's founders, Junius Henderson, it is the 14th largest collection of mollusks in the United States and perhaps the fourth largest in a university museum. The collection is world-wide in scope, about half marine species, a quarter freshwater species, and the remainder terrestrial forms. Present collecting efforts by Shi-Kuei Wu focus on the Great Plains region. (July 1996).

DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Department of Zoology
2001 Colorado Boulevard
Denver, CO 80205-5798
Curator: Paula E. Cushing, Ph.D.
Collection Manager: Mr. Irv Cone
Phone (Cushing): (303) 370-6442
FAX (Attn: Irv Cone, Dept. of Zoology): (303) 331-6492
e-mail (Cone c/o Cushing): Pcushing@dmnh.org

The Denver Museum of Natural History has a Conchology Collection with approximately 16,000 fully catalogued and identified shell lots. Our collection is strongest in material from the Caribbean, western Mexico, and the South Pacific (including the Philippines). The Collection is currently being computerized, and we hope to provide electronic access to our collection database within the next three years via the DMNH Web site (http://www.dmnh.org). We welcome requests for loans of our specimens for research, teaching, or artistic purposes. Our material is not available for purchase or trade. If you are interested in learning more about the DMNH Conchology Collection or in borrowing specimens, please contact: Mr. Irv Cone, C/O Paula E. Cushing, Ph.D.

Connecticut

PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (YPM)
Yale University
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
170 Whitney Ave., P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
Collection Manager: Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
e-mail: ealw@george.peabody.yale.edu
Phone: (203) 432-3784
Fax: (203) 432-9816

Approximately 50,000 specimen lots of mollusks. The collection has a major historical component amased 1864-1901 from the Atlantic Coast (U.S. Fish Commision dredge hauls), Bermuda, Central America, and the Indo-Pacific, with global coverage from mid-1900's expeditions. We have significant holdings of cepalopods assembled by A.E. Verrill and G.E. Pickford and a recent acquisition of the Marine Biological Laboratory's (MBL) Gray Museum invertebrates including mollusks. Freshwater holdings include many specimens from the eastern U.S. collected just prior to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam construction. Our primary and secondary types consist of mainly A.E. Verill and K.J. Bush species. (July 1996).

Delaware

DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (DMNH)
Department of Malacology
4840 Kennett Pike, Box 3937
Wilmington, DE 19807-0937
Curator: Kevin Roe (effective January 2003)
Phone: (302) 658-9111
Collections Manager: Leslie Skibinski
Phone: (302) 658-9111
e-mail: LSkibinski@delmnh.org
Fax: (302) 658-2610

200,000 lots of mollusks. Of these, 70% have been computerized, including 1,300 primary types, Tertiary fossils, and alcoholic material. Significant holdings are the DuPont Volutidae Collection, orphaned collections from the Portland Society of Natural History and Stamford Museum, and eastern U.S. Unionidae on permanent loan from Stanford University. DMNH Malacology publishes Indo-Pacific Mollusca (available, but inactive), and the occasional serial, Nemouria. (July 1996).

Florida

FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (UF)
Division of Malacology
University of Florida
Museum Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800
Curator: Dr. Fred G. Thompson
e-mail: fgt@flmnh.ufl.edu
Phone: (904) 392-1721
Collection Manager: Kurt Auffenberg
e-mail: ka1@flmnh.ufl.edu
Tel: (904) 392-1721
Fax: (904) 846-0287

The FLMNH houses the major malacology collection in the southeastern USA. Presently the collection contains about 275,000 specimen-lots. This consists of 235,000 lots of curated and computer-catalogued specimens-lots, plus 40,000 additional specimens-lots that will be computer-catalogued by December 1996. The collection is recognized internationally for its scientific holdings and is regularly used by many investigators. Non-marine mollusks make up about 75% of the collection; marine taxa comprise the balance. The collection is worldwide in its coverage with major holdings from North America, Middle America, South America, the western Pacific, southeast and southern Asia. The collection contains about 450 primary type specimens, and secondary types of about 2,000 species. (July 1996).


FLORIDA MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection
100 Eighth Avenue, SE
St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5095
Collection Manager: Sandra LaGrant
e-mail: lagant_s@harpo.dep.state.fl.us
Phone: (813) 896-8626
Fax: (813) 823-0166

24,000 lots of mollusks. This collection is primarily from Floridian marine habitats. (July 1996).

THE BAILEY-MATTHEWS SHELL MUSEUM
3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road
P.O. Box 1580
Sanibel, FL 33957
Scientific Director: Jose H. Leal
e-mail: jleal@shellmuseum.org
Phone: (941) 395-2233
Fax: (941) 395-6706

Georgia

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGAMNH)
Museum of Natural History
Athens, GA 30602
Invertebrate Collection Manager: Amy Lyn Edwards
e-mail: aedwards@museum.nhm.uga.edu
Phone: (706) 542-4137
fax: (706) 543-3920

Relative percentages and geographical coverage of mollusks in our collections: land: 6% - most are from the southeastern US, but we do have worldwide examples of many families. freshwater: 35% - all are from the US, 3/4 are from the southeast. marine: 59% - about 1/2 are from Georgia, the other 1/2 are worldwide examples from each mollusc family.

1) The Grace Thomas Mollusc Collection: A world-wide collection of marine, freshwater and land mollusks. This is an actively growing collection, which has almost doubled in size in the past 3 yrs.

2) The Grays Reef Invertebrate Collection: Marine invertebrates from Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary and neighboring areas. The collection includes: sponges, cnidarians, ctenophores, mollusks, polychaetes, crustaceans, sipunculids, bryozoans, echinoderms, ascidians and chaetognaths. It does include some examples of estuarine, intertidal & supra-tidal species. Most of the material was collected between 1964 and 1981 by dredge, drag, shrimp-net, or box-core as part of research projects conducted at the UGA Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Georgia.

3) The UGA Invertebrate Collection: Marine sponges, corals and echinoderms from the Caribbean; Freshwater crayfish from the southeastern US. (May 1995).

Hawaii

BISHOP MUSEUM (BPBM)
Department of Natural Sciences
P.O. Box 19000
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817-0916
Curator: Robert H. Cowie
e-mail: rhcowie@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org
Phone: (808) 848-4118
fax: (808) 841-8968

Collection Size: Approximately 6,000,000 specimens in over 248,000 lots (9th largest mollusk collection in the U.S.). The largest and most comprehensive collection of Pacific mollusks in the world. Terrestrial mollusks make up about two-thirds of the collection, and with many of these Hawaiian and Pacific species now extinct or close to extinction, the collection is an irreplaceable resource. Close to 60% of the terrestrial material also represented by preserved specimens. Over 1,000 holotypes, mostly landsnails.

Collection History: The Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop to house the Hawaiian and Polynesian antiquities in the collection of his late wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The first conchological acquisition of the Bishop Museum was the Andrew Garrett collection, purchased in 1894. The subsequent history of the collection is largely a history of numerous expeditions and field trips in the Pacific, and of the acquisition of more than 30 major private collections, containing predominantly Pacific material. Most notable in the marine collection is the acquisition between 1948 and 1963 of the Thaanum-Langford collection, consisting of approximately 160,000 specimens from all over the Pacific. (August 1996).

Illinois

FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (FMNH)
Division of Invertebrates
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496
Curator: Dr. Rudiger Bieler
Phone: (312) 665-7720
e-mail: bieler@fmnh.org
Curator: Dr. Janet Voight
e-mail: voight@fmnh.org
Collection Manager: Jochen Gerber
e-mail: jgerber@fmnh.org
fax: (312) 665-7754

The mollusk collection at the Field Museum of Natural History is one of the major U.S. collections, with several million specimens in about 300,000 accessioned lots. About 68% represent terrestrial lots, 18% marine and 14% freshwater. The collections of Recent pulmonate gastropods (land snails) at the Field Museum (FMNH) contain approximately 3.5 million specimens in about 209,000 dry-shell and alcohol-preserved lots. FMNH's land snail collection is the most comprehensive in the country, with geographic concentration on North America, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Central and South America, and Europe. Especially rich in eastern U.S. species, it comprises a unique resource for ecological, environmental, systematic and other studies. Continued collection growth is aimed at supplementing existing strengths as well as building our marine holdings. For additional information on individual collections, current staff, etc., see: gopher://fmppr.fmnh.org/11/.fmnh/.acad/. (July 1996).

ILLINOIS NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY (INHS)
Center for Biodiversity
607 E. Peabody Dr.
Champaign, IL 61820
Curator: Kevin S. Cummings
e-mail: ksc@inhs.uiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 333-1623 (direct) or 333-6846 (center office)
Collection Manager: Christine A. Mayer
e-mail: cmayer@denr1.igis.uiuc.edu
Fax: (217) 333-4949

In March 1998 curation of the mollusk collection of the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History was transferred to the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS). The combined INHS and UIMNH Mollusk Collection contains over 300,000 catalogued specimens in approximately 65,000 lots. The coverage is worldwide and includes freshwater, marine and terrestrial mollusks. The collection contains especially strong holdings of freshwater bivalves and freshwater and terrestrial gastropods, particularly from the midwestern United States, with secondary emphasis on the bivalves and gastropods from the eastern and southeastern U.S. In addition to the large number of North American specimens the collection also includes significant holdings from Venezuela. There are approximately 300 lots containing type specimens; these are primarily terrestrial and freshwater midwestern gastropods.

The freshwater bivalves number over 75,000 catalogued specimens (>21,000 lots) and approximately 18,000 uncatalogued specimens. Over 21,000 soft parts of more than 150 species have been preserved and are available for study. Most of the mussel specimens were collected as a result of faunal surveys conducted by INHS biologists from the late 1800's until the present. The early collections were made by such naturalists as A.A. Hinkley, A.H. Worthen, John W. Powell, Robert Kennicott, Richard E. Call, William A. Nason, Frank C. Baker, Robert E. Richardson, Charles A. Hart, Max R. Matteson, and William C. Starrett. (April 1998)

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (UIMNH)
1301 West Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801

See Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) above.

CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (CA)
2001 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60614
Collection Manager: Ron Vasile
e-mail: cascol@chias.org
Phone: (312) 549-0343
Fax: (312) 349-5199 or 525-6304

The collection contains approximately 60,000 specimens in 20,000 lots, including a number of type specimens. Most of the types (about 75 lots) are of freshwater snails, but a few marine species are also represented. Perhaps 10% of the collection consists of tropical species, but the vast majority of the specimens are Midwest snails and clams, many collected by Frank C. Baker from 1892-1915. Many of the Midwestern bivalves have recently been reidentfied and organized and entered onto a computer database at the Illinois Natural History Survey. (July 1996)

ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM (ISM)
Research & Collections Center
1011 East Ash Street
Springfield, IL 62703
Curator: Dr. Robert Warren
e-mail: warren@museum.state.il.us
Phone: (217) 524-7903

The catalogued mollusk collection at the Illinois State Museum consists of 7598 freshwater bivalves (most dry) and 322 marine bivalves and gastropods (dry). The freshwater bivalve collection includes 120 species in five families (Corbiculidae, Hyriidae, Margaritiferidae, Mycetopodidae, Unionidae). Most of the collection consists of unionid mussels from the Mississippi River system in the states of Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.

The Museum's unionid mussel collection includes material from such early collectors as R.M. Barnes, C.C. Hoff, E.W. Payne, and W.S. Strode. The major portion of the collection was acquired through the more recent efforts of Dr. Paul W. Parmalee (Museum Zoologist, 1953-1973), Dr. Walter E. Klippel (Museum Archaeologist, 1970-1977), and Dr. Robert E. Warren (Museum Archaeologist, 1984-present). Taxonomic and locality data have been computerized.

Indiana

INDIANA STATE MUSEUM
202 N. Alabama St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Curator: Ronald Richards
Collections Manager: Linda Badger
Phone: (317) 232-1642
Fax: (317) 232-7090

Approximately 2,400 catalogued specimens of unionids and an uncatalogued collection of aquatic snails. Our collection is mostly unionid specimens from Indiana and other southeastern states; less than 100 are worldwide. We are also cataloguing and curating mollusks for the Workingman's Institute in New Harmony (see below), a late 19th century molluscan collection comprising about 40,000 specimens (about half unionids and half terrestrial and aquatic snails of Indiana). (July 1996).

THE NEW HARMONY WORKINGMEN'S INSTITUTE (WMI)
West Tavern St.
New Harmony, IN 47631
*Curated by the Indiana State Museum
Curator: Ronald Richards
Phone: (317) 232-1642

Iowa

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
AND DEPT. OF GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY REPOSITORY
Iowa City, IA 52242
Museum Director: George Schrimper
Phone: (319) 335-0481
Curator of Paleontologic Collections: Julie Golden
e-mail: j-golden@uiowa.edu
Phone: (319) 335-1822

Ther University of Iowa houses an extensive collection of land and freshwater mollusks collected by Bohumil Shimek in the 1880's to 1920's from around the U.S. The majority of specimens collected in Iowa are in the Museum and the others are in Geology. They are safely stored but not well curated (estimate 2,000 lots). Many remain wrapped in the original collecting papers with notes half English - half Czech as Shimek commonly wrote. There is a list of the specimens in the Museum but not what is housed in Geology. (July 1996).

Kentucky

EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY (EKU)
Branley A. Branson Museum of Zoology
Moore 235
Richmond, KY 40475-0950
Curator: Dr. Guenter Schuster
e-mail: bioschus@acs.eku.edu
Phone: (606) 622-2284
Fax: (606) 622-1020

Approximately 5,000 lots of mollusks with about 60,000 specimens. Unionids comprise about 60% of the collection while the rest are both terrestrial and freshwater gastropods. This is primarily a North American collection with most of the holdings from the southeast. The gastropod collection includes many lots from western and northwestern states.

Massachusetts

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY (MCZ)
Harvard University
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Curator: Dr. Kenneth J. Boss
Curatorial Associate: Adam J. Baldinger
e-mail: abalding@oeb.harvard.edu
Research Associate: Mr. Richard Johnson (unionids)
Phone (for all three): (617) 495-2468

320,000 catalogued specimen-lots and approximately another 300,000 uncatalogued specimen-lots of mollusks. This worldwide collection consists of approximately 45% marine, 25% freshwater, and 30% land material. (July 1996).

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY (UMAMZ)
Invertebrate Division
Amherst, MA 01003-5810
Curator: Douglas G. Smith
e-mail: dgsmith@bio.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 545-1956

Freshwater mollusk holdings: 1130 lots, 18 families 95% from New England, 99% in alcohol cataloged, computerized, identified to species. (May 1996)

Michigan

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY (UMMZ)
Mollusk Division
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Curator: Dr. John B. Burch
e-mail: jbburch@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 747-0470
Curator: Diarmaid O Foighil
e-mail: diarmaid@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 747-2193
Collections Coordinator: Daniel Graf
e-mail: dgraf@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 764-2398
Fax (for all): (734) 763-4080

The University of Michigan began building a collection of mollusks before 1850, but it was not until the acquisition of the Bryant Walker collection (>2 million specimens) in the 1920's that the Museum's Mollusk Division gained prominence. At present, the mollusk collection contains over 250,000 catalogued lots of dry specimens (aproximately 5 million specimens), at least 5,000 uncatalogued lots of wet specimens (mostly ethanol preserved), and sizable collections of radulae, molluscan antisera and antigens etc. The collection's primary importance stems from it having one of the largest and most complete assemblages of freshwater mollusks in existence. It also houses a very significant land snail repertoire in addition to a smaller selection of marine taxa. The University of Michigan's mollusk collection serves as an invaluable reference source for limnology, invertebrate zoology and systematics, medical and veterinary zoology, conservation biology, biogeography and paleontology. It's core scientific value has increased markedly this century in direct proportion to the dramatic decline of the global freshwater malacofauna and the development of new subdisciplines, including molecular systematics and evolution. The UMMZ Mollusk Division library is also a valuable resource, containing 36 malacological journals (each set complete) (July 2001).

Minnesota

J. FORD BELL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (JFBM)
University of Minnesota
1987 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108
Curator: Susan Weller
e-mail: welle008@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Collection Manager: Mark Hove
e-mail: Mark.Hove@fw.umn.edu
Phone: (612) 625-7223 (Lab), (612) 625-6253 (Office)
Fax: (612) 625-5299

5737 lots of mollusks; 5146 from Minnesota and surrounding states. This collection is Minnesota's repository for freshwater mollusks; freshwater bivalves constitute 92% of the collection, including 250 lots collected before 1910. Specimens collected beyond Minnesota and adjacent states include freshwater mussels from 22 states and 2 countries, and gastropods from 31 states and 11 other countries. Most of our collection records are entered into a computer database, but we also have a loosely organized collection of approximately 2000 lots from the Far East, Gulf of Mexico, Europe, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific. (July 1996).

SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA
30 E. 10th Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
Curator: Dr. Frederick Jannett
Phone: (612) 221-9429

SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA
St. Croix Watershed Research Station
16910 152nd St. N.
Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047
Curator: Mr. Ronald Lawrenz

Mississippi

MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE (MMNS)
111 N. Jefferson St.
Jackson, MS 39202
Curator: Robert Jones
Phone: (601) 354-7303
fax: (601) 453-7227

17,000 specimens of mollusks, 99.5% of which are freshwater mussels. Approximately 85% are from Mississippi, with large holdings from the Tombigbee River watershed. (July 1996)

Nebraska

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM (UN)
W436 Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0514
Curator: Dr. Patricia W. Freeman
e-mail: pfreeman@unl.edu
Phone: (402) 472-6606
Collections Manager: Thomas E. Labedz
e-mail: tlabedz@unl.edu
Phone: (402) 472-8366
Fax: (402) 472-8949

The mollusk collection is broadly sorted and in appropriate storage cabinets. Several private collections of both freshwater and marine organisms with data are included, and an estimated 10,000 lots make up the entire collection. There is historically interesting material from the 1870s from freshwater streams in Nebraska collected by Samuel Aughey, the first director of the Museum. More recently, surveys of molluscs from the Platte and Niobrara Rivers, supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have been carried out by Mr. Keith Perkins. A recent gift contains much land snail material from Central America and Cuba collected before 1957. Approx. 20,000 lots (uncatalogued). (July 1996).

New York

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (AMNH)
Department of Invertebrates
Central Park West at 79th St.
New York, NY 10024-5192
Curator: Dr. Paula M. Mikkelsen
e-mail: mikkel@amnh.org
Phone: (212) 769-5244
Collections Manager: James R. "Jay" Cordeiro
Phone: (212) 769-5720
e-mail: cordeiro@amnh.org.
Fax: (212) 769-5783

278,000 catalogued specimen lots of mollusks, worldwide in scope: marine, land and freshwater. This collection is especially strong in Tropical Pacific Ocean and Western Atlantic Ocean mollusks. About 400 primary type specimens and about 7,400 secondary type specimens. (July 1996).

PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION (PRI)
1259 Trumansburg Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
Curator/Collections Manager: Dr. Robin Hadlock Seely
Phone: (607) 273-6623
Fax: (607) 273-6620

Approximately 23,000 lots of Recent mollusks with particular strength in freshwater bivalves of the United States and marine mollusks of the Caribbean. Several hundred Recent molluscan types are included in the Institution's Type and Figured Collection of more than 33,000 specimens. PRI also houses the Cornell University Recent mollusk collection, the majority of which is the historic Newcomb Collection (approximately 13,000 lots), containing 252 primary and 53 secondary types, as well as representatives of 69 genera of freshwater bivalves and 210 lots of Achatinella tree snails from Hawaii. PRI also houses, in addition to the Recent mollusk material mentioned here: One of the world's largest collections of Cenozoic mollusks from the Western Hemisphere (approx. 150,000 lots), this includes the recently transferred Cornell University Cenozoic collection.(December 1996).

NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM (NYSM)
Biological Survey
CEC 3140
Albany, NY 12230
Curator: Jeffery K. Barnes (Acting)
e-mail: jbarnes@museum.nysed.gov
Phone: (518) 486-2004
fax: (518) 473-8496
Adjunct Curator: Eileen H. Jokinen
Phone: (203) 486-0335
Adjunct Curator: David L. Strayer
e-mail: dlstrayer@aol.com
Phone: (914) 677-5343
Fax: (914) 677-5976

Approximately 23,500 lots of mollusks. This is a regional collection of holdings from the northeastern United States. The bulk of the collection is freshwater mollusks with specimens dating back to the mid-19th century. (July 1996).

North Carolina

NORTH CAROLINA STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES (NCSM)
4301 Reedy Creek Road
Raleigh, NC 27607
FEDEX/UPS shipping address: 102 N Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27603
Curator: Dr. Arthur E. Bogan
e-mail: arthur.bogan@ncmail.net
Phone: (919) 733-7450 ext 753
Fax: (919) 715-2294

Around 6-8,000 molluscan specimens. Our collection has substantial unionid material, both shells and wet specimens, from Atlantic slope drainage systems, particularly in the Carolinas. Non-catalogued specimens are available for exchange with other institutions; we desire to augment our holdings with fully identified samples, particularly from southern Atlantic and Gulf coastal drainages. We also have a small number of land and aquatic gastropods, and some marine mollusks from private shell collections. Recently added the Hugh Porter collection which is primarily marine of coastal North Carolina and numbers about 12,000 lots.(May 1997).

Ohio

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (OSM)
Museum of Biological Diversity
1315 Kinnear Rd.
Columbus, OH 43212-1192
Curator: Dr. David H. Stansbery
e-mail: stansbery.1@osu.edu
Phone: (614) 292-8560
Curatorial Assistant & Collection Manager: Ms Kathy G. Borror
e-mail: borror.1@osu.edu
Fax: (614) 292-7774

56,231 lots, 362,310 specimens (FW Bivalves) (1994)
20,628 lots gastropods (FW included) (1994)

CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER
Frederick and Amey Geier Collections and Research Center
Museum of Natural History & Science
1720 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Director of Collections: Elizabeth Merritt
Phone: (513) 345-8508
fax: (513) 345-8501

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
1 Wade Oval Dr.
Cleveland, OH 44106
Curator: Dr. Joe B. Keiper
Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
e-mail: jkeiper@cmnh.org
Phone: (216) 231-4600 ext. 315
Fax: (216) 231-5919
Curatorial Assistants: John Heiser; Nancy Heiser

The currently catalogued collection of mollusks at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History contains a total of more than 6,300 lots representing over 23,000 specimens of freshwater and marine material. Much of this material is from Ohio and surrounding states, and were collected in the mid-20th century. Our terrestrial Gastropoda are largely specimens collected in the early years of the 20th century, mostly in the U.S. and Caribbean; a significant additional amount originated from Japan and was collected by Y. Hirase. We are currently cataloguing the marine bivalve and gastropod collections, which are world-wide in composition, with a preponderance of southwestern Asia specimens. (March 2001).

HEFNER ZOOLOGY MUSEUM
Miami University
Department of Zoology
100 Upham Hall
Oxford, Ohio 45056
Phone: (513) 529-4617
Curator: Dr. Paul Daniel
Curatorial Assistant: Casey Tucker

Pennsylvania

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA (ANSP)
Dept. of Malacology
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Curator: Dr. Gary Rosenberg
e-mail: rosenberg@say.acnatsci.org
Phone: (215) 299-1033
Assistant Curator: Daniel L. Graf
Phone: (215) 299-1132
e-mail: graf@acnatsci.org
Collection Manager: Mr. Edward (Ned) S. Gilmore
e-mail: egilmore@say.acnatsci.org
Phone: (215) 299-1173

The collection of recent mollusks at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP) is the oldest in the country, and the second largest catalogued one in the world. It currently has more than 478,000 catalogued lots containing about 12 million specimens, including 30,000-35,000 lots preserved in ethanol. Type specimens of more than 400 authors are represented in more than 12,000 type lots. ANSP has specimens from all over the world. The collection is about 75% gastropods, 23% bivalves, and 2% chitons, <1% other classes; 50% are marine, strongest in shallow water marine mollusks from the tropical Indo-Pacific and the Western Atlantic. 30% terrestrial worldwide; 20% freshwater strongest in North America and Southeast Asia. (July 1996).

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (CM)
Section of Mollusks
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080
Curator: Timothy A. Pearce
Phone: (412) 622-1916
e-mail: PearceT@CarnegieMuseums.org
Fax: (412) 622-8837

The Section of Mollusks maintains collections, libraries, and research programs for scientific studies of Mollusca. The molluscan collections contain 115,000 lots of mollusks, an estimated 3.3 million specimens housed in 2,300 jars and 3,308 glass-topped drawers (18" x 30"). This primarily freshwater and terrestrial collection is worldwide with emphasis on Neartic and Neotropical species; 67% are gastropods, 32% bivalves, <1% chitons, and <1% other classes. We have 138 primary and 8,342 secondary type specimens. Significant collections include Ortmann (Unionidae) and Sterki (Sphaeriidae). (March 2002).

BRANDYBERRY MUSEUM
417 W. Bainbridge St.
Elizabethtown, PA 17022

South Carolina

CHARLESTON MUSEUM (CHM)
360 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401
Curator: Dr. Albert Sanders
Phone: (803) 722-2996

Tennessee

FRANK H. MCCLUNG MUSEUM (UT)
University of Tennessee
Circle Park Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-3200
Curator: Dr. Paul W. Parmalee
Phone: (615) 974-6918 or 573-5209
Fax: (423) 974-3827

6,000+ lots of mollusks. The collection presently being catalogued consists primarily of freshwater mussels endemic to eastern North America. We estimate a minimum of 4,000 lots, representing 210 taxa. The collection includes approximately 450 lots of marine mollusks and 1,900 lots of eastern North American terrestrial and freshwater gastropods. We also have vast quantities of freshwater mollusks from aboriginal sites, primarily from the southeastern U.S. (July 1996).

Texas

HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
1 Hermann Circle Dr.
Houston, TX 77030
Curator: Dr. John Wise
e-mail: jwise@hmns.mus.tx.us
Phone: (713) 639-4677
Fax: (713) 523-4125
Curator (Freshwater): Dr. Raymond W. Neck
Phone: (713) 639-4678

45,000 lots, with approximately 1,000,000 dried shells. Forty percent of the collection is comprised of material from Northest Gulf of Mexico population surveys from the 1960's through the 1980's. The remaining 60% consists of world-wide marine, and both freshwater and terrestrial mollusks from Texas. Our museum has the largest and most comprehensive collection of dried shells from Texas in the world. (July 1996).

FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY (FWM)
1501 Montgomery Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107
Curator: William J. Voss
e-mail: voss@metronet.com
Phone: (817) 732-1631 ext. 331
Assistant Curator: Wesley Hathaway
Fax: (817) 732-7635

3,500 lots containing 20,000 catalogued specimens. These are mostly Southwestern U.S. and Mexico (perhaps 60%), with 30% from neighboring or close-by states and 10% from the continentla U.S. at large. There are also a few lots (100-200) from the South Pacific, Hong Kong, Greece, Philippines, and Hawaii. Terrestrial gastropods predominate the collection (maybe 60%) with freshwater and marine species making up the remainder. We have many examples of Cretaceous fossil specimens although none are catalogued in with the mollusks. (July 1996).

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO (UTEP)
Centennial Museum
Laboratory for Environmental Biology
El Paso, TX 79968-0519
Curator: Dr. Artie Metcalf
e-mail c/o: aharris@utep.edu (Art Harris)
Phone: (915) 747-5844

The Malacology collections comprise over 13,000 lots of recent and fossil specimens, mostly dried shells. About 70% of the materials are terrestrial gastropods, 25% freshwater molluscans (including unionaceans), and 5% marine forms. Geographic coverage is mostly for New Mexico (about 80%), but there also are significant holdings for Kansas, Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

In addition to the extensive general holdings of inland Mollusca from southwestern North America, the following aspects of the collection are also of note: Significant holdings of fossil gastropods from late Pleistocene/Holocene sites, including several cave sites, in Trans-Pecos Texas and southern New Mexico; a collection of fossil and modern specimens of gastropods from Cimarron County, Oklahoma; minor collections of historical interest representing the activities of Dwight Isely, H.A. Pilsbry, and J.H. Ferriss in the southwestern U.S. during the early 1900s; about 20 paratypes of land snail taxa from various regions in the southwestern U.S. and Mexico. (May 1996).

TEXAS MEMORIAL MUSEUM (TNHC)
University of Texas - Austin
2400 Trintity St.
Austin, TX 78705
Curator: Chris Durden
Phone: (512) 471-4823

DALLAS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (DMNH)
Division of Collections and Research
3535 Grand Ave. (Fair Park)
Dallas, TX 75226
Curator: Malacology Chair Vacant
Chief Curator: Alex Barker
e-mail: abarker@mail.smu.edu
Phone: (214) 421-3466, ext. 244
Collection Manager: Gail Manning
e-mail: grm_dmnh@ix.netcom.com
Phone: (214) 421-3466, ext. 232
Fax: (214) 428-4356

28,000 lots. The collection is dominated by terrestrial gastropods, including both recent and fossil specimens. One of the major terrestrial gastropod collections for the region, it includes primary types of about a dozen specimens and secondary types of several hundered gastropod species. (July 1996).

Virginia

VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (VMNH)
1001 Douglas Avenue
Martinsville, VA 24112
Curator: Richard Hoffman
Phone: (540) 666-8629
Collection Manager: Paisley Cato
e-mail: pcato@leo.vsla.edu
Fax: (540) 632-6487

Approximately 2.8% (35 lots) of the mollusk collection is comprised of terrestrial gastropods. The genera represented include Anguispira, Haplotrema, Polygyriscus, Mesodon, Triodopsis, Pomatiopsis, and Strobilops. The remaining 97.2% (about 2,000 lots with about 15,000 specimens) are freshwater (no marine mollusks). Collection emphasis is on pleurocerid gastropods and unionid bivalves from the Atlantic slope systems in Virginia and North Carolina, with nominal representation from the Tennessee River Basin. (July 1996).

Washington

BURKE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND CULTURE (UW)
University of Washington
Division of Geology & Paleontology
P.O. Box 353010
Seattle, WA 98195
Curator: Alan Korn
e-mail: kohn@u.washington.edu

The Burke Museum malacological collection now comprises 29,321 lots, comprising mainly marine material from the Pacific Rim region. It is particularly strong in material from Washington, Alaska, and the Indo-Pacific region. A recently donated collection of several thousand lots from Guam is currently being catalogued. (December 2001)

Washington D.C.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (USNM)
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology
NHB MRC 118
Washington, DC 20560
Freshwater Curator: Dr. Robert Hershler
e-mail: MNHIV007@SIVM.SI.EDU
Phone: (202) 786-2077
Marine Curator: Dr. Jerry Harasewych
e-mail: MNHIV006@SIVM.SI.EDU
Phone: (202) 786-2073
Cephalopod Curator: Dr. Clyde Roper
e-mail: MNHIV016@SIVM.SI.EDU
Phone: (202) 786-2076
Collection Manager: Michael Sweeney
e-mail: MNHIV027@SIVM.SI.EDU
Phone: (202) 786-2075

2,320,000 lots of mollusks. The molluscan collection of the National Museum of Natural History is a comprehensive, worldwide collection of 850,000+ catalogued specimen-lots and 12,000 primary type lots. Strengths of the 20,000,000 specimen collection are in the marine and freshwater faunas. Currant research interests focus on cephalopods, new world freshwater snails, and marine gastropods. (July 1996).

West Virginia

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY
College of Science
Huntington, WV 25755
Curator: Dr. Ralph W. Taylor
Phone: (304) 696-2338

Wisconsin

MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM (MPM)
800 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Curator: Joan P. Jass
Phone: (414) 278-2761 or 344-4649
e-mail: jass@mpm1.mpm.edu

MPM has a mollusk collection of over 186,000 accessioned specimens from 246 families. The collection began with specimens presented to the City of Milwaukee by the Natural History Society of Wisconsin in 1883. All families having species in Wisconsin have been entered into a computer database. Over 18,000 of these specimens have been collected within Wisconsin. Of the gastropods entered into the database, 57,000 specimens are freshwater and 16,000 are terrestrial.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN (UWZM)
Zoological Museum
250 N. Mills St.
Noland Hall
Madison, WI 53706



CANADA

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ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM (ROM)
Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, ON M5S 2C6 Canada
Curator: David W. Barr
e-mail: davidb@rom.on.ca
Phone: (416) 586-8094
Collection Manager: Sheila C. Byers
e-mail: sheilab@rom.on.ca
Phone: (416) 586-8041
Fax: (416) 586-5863

Approximately 50,000 species lots with 300,00 specimens; around 50% of the specimens are in unsorted field lots in the process of being identified. This is a major molluscan collection, with a focus on eastern Canada. About 75% of the material is freshwater and terrestrial, but there is a rich representation of marine species, especially from Canadian coastal waters.

CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE (NMC)
(formerly National Museum of Natural Sciences)
Invertebrate Collections
Postal Box 3443, Station "D"
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 6P4
Phone: (613) 954-2646
fax: (613) 954-6439
e-mail: cmncoll@mus-nature.ca
Chief Collection Manager: Dr. Jean-Marc Gagnon
e-mail: jmgagnon@mus-nature.ca
Researcher: Dr. Andre Martel (Malacology)
e-mail: amartel@mus-nature.ca
Phone: (613) 364-4066
Fax: (613) 364-4027

A total of about 100,000 lots in the dry collection (shells) about 25,000 fluid-preserved lots; - probably about 30% are land and freshwater molluscs (30,000-40,000 lots), mostly from Canada and U.S. - including 6 000 - 7 000 lots of freshwater clams (Unionidae), mostly collected, examined and identified by Arthur H. Clarke (former curator). (May 1995).

NEWFOUNDLAND MUSEUM
Natural History Section
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation
Historic Resources Division
Box 8700
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5X3
Curator: Mr. John E. Maunder
e-mail: jmaunder@plato.ucs.mun.ca, jmaunder@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Phone: (709) 729-5077
fax: (709) 729-2179

Approximately 2,000 catalogued lots with an additional 5,000-plus uncatalogued. This collection of wet and dry recent mollusks, and Pleistocene subfossils is still in the early stages of development with very active collecting and cataloguing. Land, freshwater, and marine habitats are about equally represented, but our marine collections are now growing the fastest. The collecting area is essentially restricted to the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and its surrounding continental shelf/slope waters to a depth of 4,000 m. (July 1996).

THE ROYAL BRITISH COLUMBIA MUSEUM (BCPM)
Invertebrate Section
675 Belleville Street
Victoria, BC, Canada V8V 1X4
Curator: Philip Lambert
e-mail: plambert@RBML01.rbcm.gov.bc.ca
Phone: (604) 387-6034
Collections Manager: Kelly Sendall
e-mail: ksendall@RBML01.rbcm.gov.bc.ca
Phone: (604) 387-2932
Fax: (604) 387-5360

The Royal BC Museum has about 500 lots of freshwater and terestrial molluscs, most are from BC. As well there a few thousand lots of marine molluscs. Significant contributions have been made from the estate of the late Dr Frank Bernard, and by Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Most of their donations are marine. The collections are in 60% isopropanol as well as dry lots. (July 1996).

ATLANTIC REFERANCE CENTRE (ARC)
Huntsman Marine Science Center
St. Anderws, New Brunswick, Canada E0G 2X0
(506) 529-1203

Approximately 5,000 lots of mollusks, with gastropods, pelecypods, and cephalopods representing about 30% each. Habitat coverage includes marine, estuarine, and freshwater areas within Atlantic Canada and adjacent southern regions. (July 1996).

SOUTH AMERICA
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Argentina

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MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES (MACN)
"Bernardino Rivadavia"
Av. Angel Gallardo 470
1405 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Director: Dr. Edgardo J. Romero
Phone/Fax: 54-11-4982 5243/0306/4494/1154
Division Invertebrados
Curator: Lic. Alejandro Tablado
Phone/Fax: 54-11-4982 5243/0306/4494/1154 ext. 18
e-mail: tablado@mail.retina.ar

The collection of the Invertebrate Division includes all invertebrate species except land arthropods (insects, spiders, scorpions, etc.). Mollusks comprise about 50% of the whole collection, which contains ca. 34,000 lots. The collection has material from all parts of Argentina (land and freshwater environments), and also from the south-western Atlantic and Antarctic marine areas. Most of the specimens are dry shells, and about 30% are wet specimens conserved in alcohol 70%. Last year we began to computerize the collection information, but just 35% of the total has been entered. (September 1999)

MUSEO DE LA PLATA (MLP)
Dept. Zoologia Invertebrados
Paseo del Bosque s/n
1900 La Plata - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curator: Dr. Cristian F. Ituarte
e-mail: cituarte@isis.unlp.edu.ar
Phone: 54-21-256134/8252
Fax: 54-21-257527

Freshwater, Terrestrial (Hylton Scott colection) and Marine Molluscs (Lahille Volutes types)

COLECCIÓN DE LA FUNDACIÓN MIGUEL LILLO (FML)
Instituto de Invertebrados Fundación Miguel Lillo
Miguel Lillo 251
Tucamán, Argentina

This malacological collection is composed exclusively of shells except for certain Pulmonate gastropods of Tucaman Province which are represented by whole snails fixed and preserved in alcohol. Fourteen holotypes and several paratypes are registered in this section. (Cuezzo & Drahg, 1995).

Brazil

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COLEÇÃO MALACOLÒGICA DO INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA (IBUFRJ)
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, C.C.S.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-570
Brasil
Curator: Dr. Ricardo S. Absalão
e-mail: absalao@acd.ufrj.br / absalao@hotmail.com
Curatorial Assistants:
Paulo Marcio S. Costa.
e-mail: pmscosta@hotmail.com
Alexandre D. Pimenta
e-mail: alexpim@hotmail.com
phone/fax: XX-55-21-5605993 ext. 23

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has a small (+/- 10000 lots) but representative collection of Brazilian marine mollusks (70% Gastropoda, 20% Bivalvia, 10 % other classes). In the last 10 years special attention has been dedicated to microgastropods. Most of our lots are from the southeastern coast of Brazil, but the north and the south coasts are also significantly represented. (May 1998).

MUSEU NACIONAL
Departamento de Invertebrados (Malacologia)
Quinta da Boa Vista, Sao Cristovao
20.940-040
Rio de Janeiro, R.J. Brazil
Curators: Célia Neli Ricci &
Luiz Carlos de Figueiredo Alvarenga
e-mail: alvareng@acd.ufrj.br

MUSEO PAULISTA
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Curator:
e-mail:

MUSEU DE CIÊNCIAS NATURAIS
Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul
Av. Salvador França, 1427, Jardim Botânico
Porto Alegre, RS, 90690-000
Brasil
Curator: Dr. Maria Cristina Dreher Mansur

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL
Laboratório de Fisiologia Animal
P.O. Box 592
Porto Alegre, RS, 90600-000
Brasil
Curator: Ana Eloisa Castro Freitas
e-mail: opabinia@vortex.ufrgs.br

Costa Rica

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INBio
(Biodiversity National Institute)
Departamento de Malacología
Apartado. 22-3100 Santo Domingo
Heredia, Costa Rica
Curators: Zaidett Barrientos (freshwater and land mollusks)
e-mail: zbarr@spiraxis.inbio.ac.cr
Ramón Angulo (polyplacophorans and marine snails)
e-mail: rangulo@spiraxis.inbio.ac.cr
Yolanda Camacho (cephalopoda, scaphopoda, pelecypoda and Opistobranchia)
e-mail: ycamacho@spiraxis.inbio.ac.cr
Phone: (506) 236-76-90
fax: (506) 236-28-16

80% land and freshwater
20% marine

MUSEO DE ZOOLOGIA (UCR)
Universidad de Costa Rica
Biologia Tropical
San Jose, Costa Rica
Curator: Julian Monge-Najera
e-mail: julianm@cariari.ucr.ac.cr
Fax: (506) 207-5550

A small collection of marine and continental molluscs made mostly in the 60's.

Mexico

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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO (IGM)
Instituto de Geologia
Museo de Paleontologia
Ciudad Universitaria
Circuito Exterior
Delegacion Coyoacan
04510 - Mexico, D. F.
Director: Dr. Dante Moran-Zenteno
Coordinator: Dra. Maria del Carmen Perrilliat
e-mail: mariacp@servidor.unam.mx
Phone: 6-22-42-80 y 6-22-42-81

Large fossil collection of all ages from the Mexican Republic. The type collection consists of 7500 specimens including (holotypes, paratypes, syntypes). A geographic collection including all the states of the Mexican Republic mainly of Cretaceous age.

Nicaragua

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Universidad Centro Americana (UCA)
Mollusk Collection (UCAMC)
Centro Malacologico, Dept. de Ecologia
P.O.Box A-90
Managua, Nicaragua
Curator: Al Lopez, S.J.
e-mail: alosi@ns.uca.rain.ni

Dry and wet specimens. Marine collection: Locally collected Panamic species, 1,500+ spms, classified by Myra Keen's numeration. Land mollusk collection: Locally collected, ca. 300 species in ca. 1,500 lots. Freshwater collection: Freshwater snails and bivalves, locally collected. All data in FoxBase files.

Uruguay

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MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL (MHNM)
Malacologia
Casilla de Correo 399
11000 Montevideo, Uruguay
Museum Director: Dr. Hector Osorio

The Leeds City Museum houses the third largest shell collection in the British Isles. The collection contains over 100,000 lots covering most areas of the world with many hundreds of type, figured and cited specimens, a catalogue of which is now being worked up.

The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded in Leeds, and we hold the collections of one of its founder members, William Nelson as well as many other early collectors including C.Ashford, J.W.Davis, S.C.T. Hanley, C.H. Moore, A.G. Stubbs, G.H. Taylor and Fred Taylor as well as the collections of later collectors such as J. Armitage, H. Brooksbank, T.E.Crowley, E.B. Rands, D.N. Richardson and L.W. Stratton.

The main strengths of the collection include British and European land and freshwater, including a large quantity held in spirit. A large collection of tropical land snails this includes the Atkinson Memorial Collection. The largest collection is that of Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley, this contains large numbers of the freshwater as well as marine bivalves, and includes a large number of unionids, particularly from the USA. The Hanley collection contains original syntypic material from many of the great collectors of the 19th century. This collection and that of T.E.Crowley contains many of the type and figured specimens held by the museum. The Crowley collection includes material from the A.E.Salisbury collection including many Maynard types. (January 2001).


France

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MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE (MNHN)
Laboratoire de Biology des Invertebres Marins et Malacologie
55 Rue de Buffon
Paris, France 75005
Curator: Dr. Philippe Bouchet
e-mail: pbouchet@mnhn.fr

Germany

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FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT UND NATURMUSEUM SENCKENBERG (SMF)
Senckenberganlage 25
D-60325 Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
Curator: Dr. Ronald Janssen
e-mail: rjanssen@sng.uni-frankfurt.de
Phone: 049-69-7542237
Fax: 049-69-746238

The mollusc collection of the Senckenberg Museum is one of the major research collections. It comprises ca. 0.5 million lots of both recent and Tertiary fossil molluscs including several thousands of primary type specimens. Coverage is worldwide. Most important is the collection of land and freshwater material which is particulary strong in Palearctic and SE Asia (Japan, China, Thailand, Philippines). Especially well represented are the freshwater bivalves and the gastropod families Cyclophoridae, Pupillidae, Clausiliidae, Camaenidae, Helicidae. Marine collections include major holdings from European Seas, Eastern Atlantic and West Africa, the Caribbean, Red Sea, SE Asia, and Antarctica. Strength of the fossil collection is the European Tertiary. Collections include among others those of O.Boettger, R. Brandt, H.G.Bronn, R.v.Cosel, P. Ehrmann, K. Fischer, J. Goerges, V. Gredler, F. Haas, H.v. Ihering, S.H. Jaeckel, H. Kaltenbach, W. Kobelt, O.v. Moellendorff, F. Nordsieck, K.L. Pfeiffer, O. Reinhardt, E.A. Rossmaessler, E. Rueppell,, R. Schlickum. Many types and other materials are present of C.B. Adams, C.M. Cooke, H. Cuming, W. Dunker, F. Held, F. Krauss, H. C. Kuester, Th. Menke, L.J. Morelet, H. Nordsieck, L. Pfeiffer, R.A. Philippi, H. Schuett, W. Wenz, C.A. Westerlund, W.K. Weyrauch. The collection is not yet computerized. (June 1996).

ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MUENCHEN (ZSM)
Sektion Mollusken
Muenchhausenstr. 21, D-81247
Muenchen (Munich), Germany
Curator: Michael Schroedl
e-mail: Michael.Schroedl@zsm.mwn.de
Phone: +49 89 8107 142
Curator: Dr. Bernhard Ruthensteiner
e-mail: Ruthenst@zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de
Phone: +49 89 8107 135
Collection Manager: Enrico Schwabe
e-mail: Enrico.Schwabe@zsm.mwn.de
Phone +49 89 8107 143
Fax: +49 89 8107 300

Freshwater najades (including collection of H. Modell) 8000 lots, about 450 species/subspecies.

ZOOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM DER UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG (ZMH)
Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3
D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
Curator: Bernhard Hausdorf
email: hausdorf@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de
Phone: +49-40-4123-2284
Fax: +49-40-4123-3937

MUSEUM fur NATURKUNDE der HUMBOLDT (ZMB)
Institute of Systematic Zoology
Department of Malacology
Invalidenstraße 43
D-10115 Berlin, Germany
Curator of Mollusca & Tentaculata: Matthias Glaubrecht, Ph.D.
email: Matthias.Glaubrecht@rz.hu-Berlin.de
Phone: +49 30 2093 8504
Fax: +49 30 2093 8528

HAUS DER NATUR - CISMAR (HNC)
Baederstrasse 26
D-23743 Cismar
Curator: Dr. Vollrath Wiese
e-mail: hausdernatur.vwiese@t-online.de
Phone: ..49-4366-1288
Fax: ..49-4366-1288

Privately owned museum with 100,000 lots of mostly recent molluscs; about 50,000 lots have been computerized. Land-, freshwater and marine molluscs represented, worldwide collection, some special parts well documented: e.g. nonmarine from central Europe, Albania, Greece (especially island of Crete); Liguus from Florida; marine coldwater molluscs (especially arctic). The collection contains some dozens of holotypes and hundreds of lots of syntypes, paratypes or other voucher specimens. (March 1998)


Italy

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MUSEO MALACOLOGICO PICENO di CUPRA MARITTIMA
Via Adriatica Nord, 240
I - 63012 Cupra Marittima (AP), Italy
Curator: Dr. Tiziano Cossignani
e-mail: malacologia@fastnet.it
Phone: +39-735-777550
Fax: +39-735-777232

The world's largest existing permanent exhibition of shells. Over 700,000 marine and freshwater shells and land-snails exhibited in a museum of 3,000 square metres. You can also admire: red and white corals, mother-of-pearl, and all that concerns the fantastic world of mollusca and shells. Estimated 7 million specimens arranged in more than 200,000 lots. Special attention was paid to the Conidae, Cypraeidae, Ranellidae, Marginellidae, Archeogastropoda, and Mediterranean Mollusca.

INSTITUTO DI GEOLOGIA MARINA
C.N.R.
via Gobetti 101
40129 Bologna, Italy
Curator: Dr. Marco Taviani

They have recent collections from around the world, including specimens in alcohol.

Netherlands

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ZOOLOGISCH MUSEUM AMSTERDAM
Department of Malacology, University of Amsterdam
P.O.Box 94766 [visiting address: Mauritskade 57]
1090 GT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Curator: Robert G. Moolenbeek
e-mail: moolenbeek@bio.uva.nl
phone: (0)20-5256294
fax: (0)20-5255402

The collection originates from the cabinet of the Amsterdam Zoo (ARTIS) which started in 1838 and acquired many important 18 and 19th century Dutch cabinets. During the turn of the century the collections became part of the University of Amsterdam and now includes the well known Schepman collection. The collection consists of about 3 million specimens and can be divided into:

1. A type collection [dry and wet material, now being catalogued by computer]. A great part of the types are from the Siboga Expedition (marine shells S.E. Asia), landsnails described by Van Benthem Jutting from S.E.Asia and West Indian marine shells described by De Jong & Coomans.

2. A collection of Recent and fossil material from the Netherlands.

3. A worldwide dry and wet collection (with important historical material).

4. A West Indian collection of land and marine species (The Wagenaar Hummelinck collection and several recently acquired collections still to be administrated).

The collection is on a cardfile and about 10% is computerized. In the last decade special attention was paid to the Conidae, Macaronesian Islands, West Indies and N.W.Indian Ocean (Oman and Persian/Arabian Gulf). (September 1996).

Scotland

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NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND (RSM)
Department of Natural History
Chambers Street
Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 1JF
Curator: David Heppell
e-mail: dh@nms.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)131 247 4298
Fax: +44 (0)131 220 4819

The National Museums of Scotland have large worldwide collections of Unionacea and other freshwater families of Mollusca, almost all as shell (non-alcohol) material. Some of it is pre-1860 and of considerable historical interest. Our strengths are in British marine and non-marine, north-east Atlantic marine including deep-sea material and worldwide terrestrial. Also a fair amount of Antarctic marine, mostly from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-04, but with modern additions from the Falkland Islands.

Spain

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MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES (MNCN)
Josè Guti&egraverrez Abascal, 2
28006 - Madrid, Spain
Curator: Oscar Soriano
Phone: 91 411 13 28
Fax: 91 564 50 78
e-mail: mncnh149@mncn.csic.es
Assistant curator: Miguel Villena
no e-mail

The mollusc collection of the MNCN is composed of about 300,000 specimens from around the world. The collection contains excellent representation from the Iberian Peninsula, Philippines, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea and South America (Bivalvia 25,000 lots, Gastropoda 10,5000 lots, Cephalopoda 400 lots and others 2,000 lots).

The origin of the collection is the same as that of the Museum; founded in 1771 with the purchase of the Franco Davila Collection. Subsequently it was increased with the acquisition of new collections from spanish researches (Hidalgo, Paz y Membiela, Azpeitia, Quadras, Rol&aacuten, and the Fauna Ib&eacuterica Project). The collections were not actively curated for about a half a century. The curation and scientific use was re-initiated in 1985. New preservation and management methods were used. Computarization of the collections is in progress. Different research lines to improve curation and recuperation of historic collections have been initiated.

The mollusc collection includes about 3,000 type specimens of 461 specific or subspecific taxa (327 of them are name-bearing types). From these taxa, 237 are marine Gastropoda, 190 terrestrial Gastropoda, 11 freshwater Gastropoda, 21 Bivalvia, and 2 Polyplacophora. Regarding the geographic location of type localities of the marine taxa, 64.5 % are from the Eastern Atlantic coast (mostly from West Africa), 18.3 % from the Caribbean Sea, 11.2 % from the Mediterranean Sea, and the others from different localities within the Indo-Pacific area (mainly the Philippines), and Antarctica. Concerning the continental taxa, 33.1 % come from the Americas (mostly Cuba), 27.5 % from Spain, 20.2 % from Asia (mostly the Philippines), and 18.8 % from Africa.

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