The current acronym (and prefix to our catalogue numbers) for the Invertebrate Zoology Collection is TTU-Z; standing for Texas Tech University-Invertebrate Zoology. Portions of the current collection have been housed in different Schools of the university over the decades and therefore may appear in publications under different acronyms. The most commonly encountered is TTCC (same as listed in Arnett, R. H. Jr., et al., 1986. The insect and spider collections of the world. E. J. Brill, 220 pp.; [Evenhuis, N.L. & G. A. Samuelson, 2005. The insect and spider collections of the world website. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/codens/codens-inst.html] ). TTCC originated when our institution was named the Texas Technological College Collection.