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Major Centres of Beak Collections

This list was provided by Dr. Jose Carlos Caetano Xavier

Major Beak Centre Contact
 AUSTRALIA
National Museum of Victoria, 285-321 Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia C. C. Lu
 FRANCE
CNRS, CEBC-CNRS, BP14, 79000 Villiers-en-Bois, France Y. Cherel
 JAPAN
National Science Museum, Hyakunin-cho 3-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan T. Kubodera
 NEW ZEALAND
Wildlife Service, Department of Internal affairs, Private Bag, Wellington, New Zealand M. J. Imber
 SOUTH AFRICA
South African Museum, P. O. Box 61, Cape Town 8000, South Africa M. Roeleveld
Port Elizabeth Museum, P. O. Box 13147, 6013 Humewood, South Africa M. Smale
 UK
Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK M. Clarke
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, CB3 OET, Cambridge P. Rodhouse
 USA
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560, USA C. Roper
University of Miami, School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida 33149, USA N. Voss
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA F. Hochberg
For further information on squid identification see also Clarke, M. (1986). A handbook for the identification of cephalopod beaks. Oxford Science publications: 273pp.

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