MUSEUM HOLDINGS - GENERAL INDICATIONS OF MATERIAL NOT ALREADY LISTED IN THE INDEX
- Allan Hancock Foundation -
- includes material studied by Bakus, including his San Juan Archipelago poeciloscleridans (1966). - in addition, there is Eltanin Antarctic material identified but not published by Little
(part in BMNH)
- Australian Museum, Sydney (AM) -
- includes material studied by Lendenfeld, Dendy, Hallmann, Whitelegge and Bergquist - also, many fragments of Australian sponges sent from the BM (Dendy 1891:2) - there is an excellent
collection of dry sponges - all AM types have been photographed by Lévi - negatives of Australian types photographed in AM, London, Berlin and Jena, deposited in Sydney by Wiedenmayer
in 1985
- East Berlin (ZMB)
- includes primary types of many species described by: Arndt, Lendenfeld and Weltner. Also includes collections reported by: Baer (1906) - Carter (1879) - Lebwohl (1914) Lindgren (1897, 1898)
- Uliczka (1921, 1929)
- Firenze, Museo di Storia Naturale "La Specola"
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- Sara's types of his Fireland study
- Genève, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle
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- includes primary types of Nouvelle Calédonie and Baie d'Amboine collections studied by Faundez-Desqueyroux
- Genova, Istituto di Zoologia -
- includes primary types and much other material studied by Sarà, Pulitzer-Finali and Pansini
- Khoyatan Marine Laboratory, British Columbia, Canada
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- primarily consists of sponges collected from Washington, British Columbia and Alaska (c. 1000 lots, three quarters identified by B. Ott & W.C. Austin representing 192 species out of 202 known species in area. [Eventually to be deposited in the British Columbia Provincial Museum & the National Museums of Canada, Ottawa]
- Leningrad (ZIL) -
- includes sponges studied by Koltun
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA -
- includes W.H. Dall material (pars) collected in Alaska, etc. "which may have been identified by (MCZ) Lambe, 1893, 1894 & 1895" [Austin 1985] - contains c. 3,000 specimens all
internally catalogued (on file cards) up to 1976, including 67 primary types (9 missing). Type list available.
- Napoli, Museo della Stazione Zoologica -
- includes primary types of Sarà's studies on the Bay of Naples
- Paris (MNHN) -
- includes primary types of Lévi, Vacelet, Borojevic, Boury-Esnault, Greissinger, and Pouliquen, and paratypes of Faundez-Desqueyroux (Nouvelle Calédonie). - also, there is early material of Valenciennes
- Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM) -
- includes primary types of Hartman and Hechtel (1965)
- Smithsonian Institution (USNM) -
- includes material studied by Rützler, and also: Old (1941)
- Wells et al (1960) - Little (1963) Bergquist (Palau, 1965) -
Bakus (1966) Wiedenmayer (1977)
- Wellington, National Museum of New Zealand (NMNZ)
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- includes primary types of Bergquist
- Wellington, New Zealand - Oceanographic Institute
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- includes primary types of Bergquist (1968, 1970)