Benchmarking in Taxonomy: The Role of the Holotype
TaxonomyBenchmarking in taxonomy is viewed both as establishing a specimen as a standard of reference and as a process for optimizing that process. Here, it is founded on vision theory that recognition of specimens, as for all objects, is personal to the ...
George H. Scott
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS TO “REPRESENTATIVES OF SOME DIAGNOSTIC AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERAL GENERA OF THE SUBCLASS MONOTHALAMANA (Bathysiphon, Orbulinelloides, Repmanina, Miliammina, Agglutinella, Dentostomenia, Ammomassilina, Psammolingulina) IN THE TETHYS” BY ANAN (2021) [PDF]
Geological Behavior, 2022 The species is Orbulinelloides kaminskii Anan, 2021 was described based on an illustration published by Kaminski & Huang in 1991. In this study we located and investigated the type specimen of O.
Anna Waskowska, Michael A. Kaminski
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Hieracium micevskii (Asteraceae), a new species from North Macedonia [PDF]
Botanica Serbica, 2022 Hieracium micevskii is described and illustrated as a species new to science from the western part of North Macedonia. Taking into consideration the morphological characteristics, its origin is assumed to be hybrid.
Aco Teofilovski
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Quaternary, 2021 The article presents a preliminary morphological description of the holotype of Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) that serves for the description of the species.
Roman Croitor
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Charniodiscus is one of the most iconic and first described of the Ediacaran frondose taxa. Since the diagnosis of the holotype of C. concentricus in 1958, the scarcity and poor preservation of unequivocal specimens has resulted in genus-level taxonomic ...
Daniel Pérez-Pinedo +4 more
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The holotype of the basal archosauromorph Prolacerta broomi revisited [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Prolacerta broomi is one of the most important of fossil reptiles. First considered as one of the earliest members of squamates, this basal archosauromorph has been used as a model for diapsid morphological evolution ever since its discovery, playing ...
GABRIELA SOBRAL
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Type specimens of Zygaenidae in the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (Lepidoptera)
Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 2021 This paper comprises an annotated list of the type material of Zygaenidae kept in the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.
Stanislav Abadjiev +1 more
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Taxonomic clarifications concerning the crocodyliform genus Isisfordia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background In a recent paper, a new species of the crocodyliform genus Isisfordia was erected based on, in part, a specimen previously designated as the holotype of ‘Crocodylus (Bottosaurus)’ selaslophensis. This new species was given the name Isisfordia
Lachlan J. Hart
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Corrigendum: Kato M, Kawakita A (2023) Diversity and larval leaf-mining habits of Japanese jewel beetles of the tribe Tracheini (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). ZooKeys 1156: 133–158. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1156.97768 [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 We recently published the description of two new buprestid beetle species Habroloma elaeocarpusi and Habroloma taxillusi (Kato and Kawakita 2023). However, no holotype depository is indicated in the paper.
Makoto Kato, Atsushi Kawakita
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 A comprehensive description of the holotype skeleton is presented here for the first time of the lower Permian (Artinskian) reptile Eudibamus cursoris from the Bromacker locality of Germany since the brief description of the holotype in 2000.
David S Berman +7 more
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