ZMB

ZMB Museum für Naturkunde, commonly known as Naturkundemuseum or the Humboldt Museum of Berlin. (Est. 1810)

• Member institution of Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
• Official Name: Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung
• Location: Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
• Collections: Zoology, paleontology, mineralogy
  • A 50,000 sheet herbarium is used for the study of paleobotanical collections and known as BHUPM in Index Herbariorum.
• Acronym: ZMB
• Other acronyms used: LIEB, MfN, MFNB, MHB, MHUB, MNB, MNHU, MNHUB, NHMU, NKMB, ZMHB, ZMHU, ZMHUB, ZMNB
• The Brahmaeidae collection from T. Bouyer, more than 800 species was purchased in 2015 by Stefan Naumann. This collection and Stefan Naumann collection will deposit in the Rainer Seegers Foundation and eventually into the collections of Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.

Publications

• Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
• Fossil Record
• Zoosystematics and Evolution

Type specimen references

• Collections portal
• Searchable database
• Types of Riodinidae & Lycaenidae - Nekrutenko, 2000.
• Bauer, A.M., Lang, M. & Günther, R. 1994. An Annotated Type Catalogue of the Pygopods, Xantusiids, Gerrhosaurs and Cordylids (Reptilia: Squamata: Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae, Gerrhosauridae and Cordylidae) in the Collection of the Zoological Museum, Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 70(1): 85–92. DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.19940700103 Reference page. 
• Bauer, A.M., Wallach, V. & Günther, R. 2002. An annotated type catalogue of the scolecophidian, alethinophidian, and macrostomatan snakes in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 78(1): 157–176. DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.20020780108 Reference page. 
• Couri, M.S. & Pont, A.C. 2020. Type specimens of Coenosiini (Diptera, Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany). Zootaxa 4781(1): 1–73. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4781.1.1 Reference page. 
• Esser, J. 2014: Type catalogue of the mould beetles (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) preserved in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, with notes on systematic and taxonomy. Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera, 110: 39–66. Reference page. 
• Turni, H. & Kock, D. 2008. Type specimens of bats (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Zootaxa 1869: 1–82. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Korneyev, S.V. & Korneyev, V.A. 2017. The fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) described by Theodor Becker from Iran and Western China revisited in the collections of the Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg and Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Zootaxa 4227(1): 89–105. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.1.5. Reference page. 
• Mlíkovský, J. & Frahnert, S. 2017. Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected during F.J.F. Meyen’s circumnavigation in 1830–1832. Zootaxa 4250(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.1.1. Reference page. 
• Stuke, J-H. & Ziegler, J. 2019. Type catalogue of the thick-headed flies (Diptera, Conopidae) in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 66(1): 41–53. DOI: 10.3897/dez.66.33814 Reference page. 

External links

• Website
• Wikipedia entry