Northwest Pacific: Okhotsk Sea off Sakhalin and Hokkaido, Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Japan Sea off Russian coast from Tatar Strait to Peter the Great Bay and off Japan northward from Aomori Prefecture
Definition: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM), Washington, District of Columbia, USA.\r\nNMNH and USNM both refer to the National Museum of Natural History. Collections are associated with one or the other acronym. US, the US National Herbarium, is a collection within the National Museum of Natural History. URL for main institutional website, http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/\r\nURL for institutional specimen catalog, http://collections.mnh.si.edu/