The total amount of mammal specimens kept in the Museum is about 210.000. Of them, about 180.000 constitute the major collection stock, 12.000 specimens are kept in the Division of Evolutionary Morphology, and there are about 600 type specimens.

The following storage groups are recognized dependently on the forms of preparation and scientific status of the specimens. The major collection stock includes the materials with more or less precise field data and provided with all needed collection documentation. The auxiliary stock includes the materials that do not meet the above criteria: they are registered in the book of entries only. The type collection constitute a separate unit of the collection stock. The so called "authorial collections" also are recognized as a separate unit, as they sometime are of restricted admission to secure the rights of their donators. Collection documentation also constitutes an evidently separate part of the entire collection: the registration books are kept in the closed bookcase while the catalogue cards are located in special cases. The original field documentations, if come with the collection specimens (which is preferable) or xerox copies of such documents, are also stored in a separate bookcase.

The complete (by 1980) catalogue of mammal collection kept in the Museum is published in:

O.L. Rossolimo, I.Ya. Pavlinov. 1981. A catalogue of mammal collections of Zoological Museum of Moscow University. M.: Moscow Univ. Publ., 68 p. (in Russ.)

Curators
Igor Yakovlevich Pavlinov - Chief of Division of Mammals, Curator in Charge, curator of type collecton, of larger carnivores and larger skins. Contact phone 629-49-12.

Sergey Vadimovich Kruskop - Curator of archontan collection (bats, insectivores, etc.) and of memtatherians, curator of part of "wet" collection. Contact phone 629-48-60.

Andrey Aleksandrovich Lissovsky - Curator of ochotonid collection in the Division of mammals, supports electronic data base; Curator in Charge of the Division of Evolutionary Morphology. Contact phone 629-39-43.

Natalia Nikolaevna Spasskaya - Curator of collection of ungulate skulls, responsible for collection documentation. Contact phone 629-49-30.

Vladimir Svyatoslavovich Lebedev - Curator of myomorph rodents, of part of "wet" collection. Contact phone phone 629-49-30.