A type, or type specimen, is the specimen that represents an entire species of animal, plant, fungi or other organism. Find out about the different kinds of type specimens, why they are important and ...
Un holotype est un spécimen particulier qui a servi à décrire pour la première fois une espèce ou un autre taxon (genre, famille...). Le rôle central de l’holotype dans la classification biologique La ...
What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In the museum's basement ...
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On the left, the specimen deposited at the KU Herpetology Collection used to describe the Dendrobates duellmani (holotype). LAWRENCE — Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute ...
Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum specimen. The frog tied to the official species name turned out to be brown, ...
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