Type specimens, samples of live individuals and the Galapagos Pink Land Iguana

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 18 Aug 2009Publisher:Magnolia PressJournal:Zootaxa, volume 2,201 (issn: 1175-5326, eissn: 1175-5334,

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Authors: Donegan, Thomas M.;

doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2201.1.3

Type specimens, samples of live individuals and the Galapagos Pink Land Iguana

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Abstract

The nomenclatural implications of Gentile & Snell (2009)'s innovations in the designation of a type specimen - that is sampled and tagged but not killed - are discussed. The paper also responds to Nemésio (2009)'s criticism of Donegan (2008), where I argued that descriptions based on samples of live individuals are valid. I also discuss whether recent descriptions of such a nature involve a different degree of scientific rigour to other descriptions.

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Biodiversity, Taxonomy

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