The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) is a research and teaching facility in the Department of Biology, University of New Mexico. MSB houses collections of vertebrates, arthropods, plants and genomic materials from the American Southwest, Central and South America, and from throughout the world. The MSB consists of ten divisions, one special program (the USGS Arid Lands Field Station) and an inter-divisional program in biodiversity informatics.

Each division or program sets its own policies for visitors, researchers and data inquiries. For further information visit the appropriate division or program web pages.

Breaking News: Division of Amphibians and Reptiles Curator Howard Snell describes a pink iguana in the Galapagos. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Professor Snell is part of a team of researchers that describes a spectacular new iguana species from Isabela island in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador.

Hear the NPR interview with Dr. Snell at https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99211626

A link to the paper can be found at http://www.pnas.org/content/106/2/507

HOT OFF THE PRESS: "A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque", Jean-Luc E. Cartron, David C. Lightfoot, Jane E. Mygatt, Sandra L. Brantley, and Timothy K. Lowrey. Available from the University of New Mexico Press. http://unmpress.unm.edu/

Short-horned lizard Phrynosoma hernandesii (I. Murray), Organ Mountains (M. Weisenberger), Escobaria organensis (T. Todsen)

Praying Mantis (S. Davidson), Coachwhip Masticophis flagellum (I. Murray), CERIA (J. Mygatt)