Acronyms for institutions cited in the seastars/starfish of the Sydney region project

Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan

Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History)), London, England 

Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA

Stanford University Collections in California Academy of Sciences, California, USA

Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand

Colombo Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Switzerland

Indian Museum, Calcutta, India

Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Kyusu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg (now in ZMH), Germany

Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Budapest, Hungary

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Museo e Instituto di Zoologia Sistematica dell'Università di Torino, Turin, Italy

Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica (formerly National Academy of Peiping), Beijing, People's Republic of China

Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland 

Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria (= Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria) (= NHMV, VNHM, ZMV)

Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (= NHRS, NRMS, NRS) 

National Museum of New Zealand (formerly DMNZ), Wellington, New Zealand

Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (official acronym for Museum Victoria; see also MV)

National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (formly National Science Museum (Natural History), Tokyo, Japan)

Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington, New Zealand

Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka, Japan

Otago Museum, Otago, New Zealand

Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Queen Victoria Memorial Museum, Salisbury, Zimbabwe

Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium

Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie), Leiden, Netherlands

South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Naturmuseum und Forschungsinstitut, Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, German

Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, USA

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, German

Tokyo Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan

Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines

US National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

Zoologisches Museum Universitäts Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Long Island, New York, USA

Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (see also VUC)

Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum 'Alexander Koenig', Bonn, Germany

Zoologisches Institut der Universität, Leipzig, Germany

Universitets Stockholm, Sweden

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

Uppsala Universitets Zoologiska Museum, Uppsala, Sweden

Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (collection now housed at Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Zoologisches Museum, Göttingen, Germany

Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Universitets Lund, Lund, Sweden

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Zoologische Staatssammlung des Bayerischen Staates, München, Germany