The Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, houses and maintains the world's
largest mammal collection with over 590,000 specimens. The
taxonomic and geographic scope of the USNM (acronym derived from
our former name United States National Museum) mammal collection
spans the globe, with especially strong representation from
North America, Central America, northern South America, Africa,
and southeast Asia. The research value of this collection to
mammalogists is evidenced by the 3200 primary type specimens
preserved, a number exceeded only by The Natural History Museum,
London. Key word searches on any available field can be run from
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entire holdings are completely or partially listed in our
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