Museum of Southwestern Biology
35°04′59″N 106°37′16″W / 35.083°N 106.621°W
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| Established | 1938 |
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| Location | University of New Mexico |
| Type | Science museum |
| Collection size | 4,000,000+ specimens |
| Visitors | by appointment or at annual open-collections event |
| Director | Christopher Witt |
| Curator | Lisa N. Barrow, PhD (Amphibians and Reptiles), Kelly B. Miller, PhD (Arthropods), Christopher C. Witt (Birds), Thomas F. Turner, PhD (Fishes), Michael Anderson (Genomic Resources), Hannah E. Marx (Herbarium), Joseph Cook (Mammals), Eric S. Loker, PhD (Parasites) |
| Website | Museum of Southwestern Biology Home Page |
| Established | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Location | University of New Mexico |
| Type | Science museum |
| Collection size | 4,000,000+ specimens |
| Visitors | by appointment or at annual open-collections event |
| Director | Christopher Witt |
| Curator | Lisa N. Barrow, PhD (Amphibians and Reptiles),
Kelly B. Miller, PhD (Arthropods), Christopher C. Witt (Birds), Thomas F. Turner, PhD (Fishes), Michael Anderson (Genomic Resources), Hannah E. Marx (Herbarium), Joseph Cook (Mammals), Eric S. Loker, PhD (Parasites) |
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.
In 1997, the museum was that thought to have held 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 orthohantavirus and the Lassa mammarenavirus.[2][3]
Mammals
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- Ctenomys erikacuellarae
- Monodelphis sanctaerosae
- Ctenomys lessai
- Tapecomys primus
- Thomasomys andersoni
References
[edit]- ^ "Museum of Southwestern Biology website". Retrieved 4 December 2014.
- ^ a b Boyle, Anne (24 August 1997). "Museum key player in solving nature's mysteries N.M. facility a storehouse of plants, animals". The Denver Post.
- ^ 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[dead link]
External links
[edit]- Museum of Southwestern Biology - official site
- MSB Collections Portal - search the museum's collection database
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