Museum of Southwestern Biology

Coordinates: 35°04′59″N 106°37′16″W / 35.083°N 106.621°W / 35.083; -106.621

Museum of Southwestern Zoology
Established 1928
Location University of New Mexico
Type Science museum
Collection size 500,000+ specimens
Visitors by appointment
Director Christopher Witt
Curator Howard L. Snell, PhD (Amphibians and Reptiles),
Kelly B. Miller, PhD (Arthropods),
Christopher C. Witt (Birds),
Thomas F. Turner, PhD (Fishes),
Michael Anderson (Genomic Resources),
Timothy K. Lowrey (Herbarium),
Joseph Cook (Mammals),
Eric S. Loker, PhD (Parasites)
Website Museum of Southwestern Biology Home Page

The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) is a research and teaching facility in the Department of Biology of the University of New Mexico (UNM).[1][2] The museum's collections include vascular plants, invertebrates and vertebrates from the American West, Central and South America, and from throughout the world. It is open to visitors by appointment.

The Museum was said in 1997 to hold the largest collection of frozen tissue samples (85,000) in the western hemisphere and has assisted in the study of emerging zoonotic pathogens such as the Hantavirus and the Lassa virus.[3][2]

Mammals

Significant Holdings

Holotypes

References

  1. ↑ "Museum of Southwestern Biology website". Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 Boyle, Anne (24 August 1997). "Museum key player in solving nature's mysteries N.M. facility a storehouse of plants, animals". The Denver Post.
  3. ↑ Yates, TL, et al. 2002. The econology and evolutionary history of an emergent disease: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. BioScience 52: 989-998. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0989:TEAEHO]2.0.CO;2
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