BMNH
BMNH Natural History Museum (1992-)
- Formerly known as the British Museum (Natural History) or British Museum of Natural History
- Website
- Location: Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
- Abbreviated: B.M.(N.H.), BMNH, or BM.
- Acquired and collections
- Cuming Museum, natural history collection. NOTE: Kept separate, lectotype numbers use standard BMNH prefixes
- Geological Museum, London, in 1986
- HMS Challenger types are housed here
- Reigen Collection of Mazatlan Mollusca, in 1857
- Acronyms used:
- NHM (Natural History Museum)
- NHML (Natural History Museum, London)
- Prefixes used
- In.
- IC
- Associated publications
Type specimen catalogs
- Carpenter, P.P. 1857. Catalogue of the Reigen Collection of Mazatlan Mollusca in the British Museum. Oberlin Press. Google Books Reference page.
- Harding, J.P. 1962. Darwin's type specimens of varieties of Balanus amphitrite. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 9: 273–296. BHL. Reference page.
- Kay, E.A. 1965. Marine molluscs in the Cuming collection, British Museum (Natural History) described by William Harper Pease. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology, Supplement 1: 1–96, 14 pl. BHL. Reference page.