Collection of Vertebrates of the Museum of Zoology, USA (UC-Berkeley)

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California - Berkeley
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Berkeley, California 94720 - 3160 USA
Phone: (510) 642 3567
Fax (510) 643 8238
e-mail: mvz@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Carla Cicero, Ph.D
Curatorial and Research Associate
Systematics, geographic variation, and evolution of New World birds, with an emphasis on western North America
Phone: (510) 642 7868
e-mail: ccicero@socrates.berkeley.edu

Ned K. Johnson, Professor
Curator of Birds
Avian geographic variation and speciation
Phone: (510) 643 7708
e-mail: neddo@socrates.berkeley.edu

Eileen A. Lacey, Asst. Professor
Assistant Curator of Mammals
Behavioral ecology, population and evolutionary biology of mammals, particularly rodents
Phone: (510) 643 0284
e-mail: ealacey@socrates.berkeley.edu

Craig Moritz, Professor
Director & Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles.
Molecular evolution.
Phone: (510) 643 7711
e-mail: cmoritz@socrates.berkeley.edu

James L. Patton, Professor
Curator of Mammals
Systematics and evolution of mammals, particularly geomyid rodents and
neotropical marsupials and rodents
Phone: (510) 643 7712
e-mail: patton@uclink4.berkeley.edu

David B. Wake, Professor
Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles
Evolutionary biology of tropical and west coast salamanders
Phone: (510) 643 7705
e-mail: wakelab@uclink4.berkeley.edu

John Wieczorek
Programmer/Analyst
All aspects of data management.
Phone: (510) 643 0352
e-mail: tuco@socrates.berkeley.edu

This database contains information on vertebrae specimens from the Museum of Zoology of the University of California at Berkeley, corresponding to amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds (size of brood, number of nests and samples of tissues) from the entire world. The collection contains approximately 609 589 curatorial registries pertaining to 443 families, 3 054 genera and 6 066 species, broadly represented both taxonomically and geographically.

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology