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Acanthognathus poinari

The holotype amber specimen, number H-10-135, is currently preserved in the amber collections of noted amber researcher George Poinar, Jr., which at the time of description were housed in the University of California, Berkeley.

Apatornis

The type specimen of A. celer, YPM 1451, was reportedly discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh in October of 1872 at Butte Creek in Logan County, Kansas.

Astrocaryum

The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Banded houndshark

The first scientific description of the banded houndshark was authored by German biologists Johannes Peter Müller and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, based on a dried specimen from Japan, in their 1838–41 Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen.

Bodo language

Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha gathered a few specimen of the Deodhai alphabet from an informant of Dimapur area which was noted for the Kachari reign an remains representing the art and architecture.

Bolivian river dolphin

In 1847, he and Paul Gervais compared it to "Delphinius geoffrensis" (=Amazon river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis), which had been described from a stuffed specimen in Lisbon, and the two were considered synonyms for more than a century.

Brachinite

Brachinites are named after the Brachina meteorite, the type specimen of this group which in turn is named after Brachina, South Australia.

Broadnose catshark

The broadnose catshark, Apristurus investigatoris, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae the holotype and only specimen being found in deepwater in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean between latitudes 16° N and 10° N.

Calliophis bivirgatus

Fraction S2 contains two phospholipases A2 — PLA2 I and PLA2 II; fraction S3 contains four cytotoxin homologues — maticotoxins A, C, D1 and D2; and fractions S4 and S5 contain a large amount (about 1 mg/specimen) of adenosine with smaller amounts of inosine and guanosine.

Callovosaurus

This specimen was collected from the middle Callovian–age (Middle Jurassic) Peterborough Member (former Lower Oxford Clay) of the Oxford Clay Formation of Fletton, near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, England.

Charles Frederick Hartt

In his last voyage he collected more than 500,000 specimens, which were donated to the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, where he worked as the founder and director of the section of geology from 1866 to 1867.

Choaspes benjaminii

The species is named after Benjamin Delessert and was described on the basis of a specimen collected by Adolphe Delessert in the Nilgiris.

Columbite

The occurrence of columbite in the United States was made known from a specimen sent by Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut to Hans Sloane, President of the Royal Society of Great Britain.

Congo Serpent Eagle

The Congo Serpent Eagle was first described in 1863 by Hermann Schlegel as Astur spectabilis from a specimen collected near Elmina, Ghana.

Daspletosaurus

It was not until 1970 that the specimen was fully described by Dale Russell, who made it the type of a new genus, Daspletosaurus, from the Greek δασπλής (dasples, stem and connective vowel resulting in daspleto~) ("frightful") and σαυρος/sauros ("lizard").

Deinacrida heteracantha

It was redescribed under the synonymous name Hemideina gigantea by Colenso (1881), based on a specimen collected 'in a small low wood behind Paihia, Bay of Islands', in 1838.

Echinocereus × neomexicanus

The plant was originally described by Paul Carpenter Standley in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 35:87 (1908) based on a specimen growing in the cactus garden of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts from among hundreds of specimens he had collected from the mesa west of the Organ Mountains.

Eduard Opitsch

Eduard Opitsch (1 February 1900 — 20 February 1991) was a German quarry owner whose name is associated to a specimen of the prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx, the Maxberg specimen.

Eucommia rolandii

The other fossil is marked as specimen SFU 14748, and is part of the collections at Simon Fraser University.

Fuller's caecilian

Fuller's caecilian (also Kuttal caecilian), Chikila fulleri, is a species of caecilian endemic to India; the type specimen was collected six miles southwest of Silchar in Cachar, Assam, at an altitude of about 100 m above sea level.

Gideonmantellia

The specimen is part of the collection of the Museo Paleontológico de Galve and displayed in the palaeontological hall of the townhall of Galve.

Heptacodium miconioides

A specimen 8 m high planted in 1981 grows in the Flagpole Bed alongside Jermyn House at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Ampfield, near Romsey, in England.

Hooktooth dogfish

The type specimen is held at the National Natural History Museum, Santiago, Chile.

Ilex cookii

This tree is only known from a single specimen and a few seedlings in the cloud forests on Cerro de Punta and Monte Jayuya, both at Toro Negro State Forest in Puerto Rico.

Iridana

The only known specimen of I. agneshorvathae was collected at light in Bia National Park in Western Ghana from a dry semi-deciduous forest and is most probably a canopy species.

Juliomys anoblepas

The specimen was collected by Peter Wilhelm Lund in the caves of Lagoa Santa in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the first half of the 19th century and described by Herluf Winge in 1887 as Calomys anoblepas.

Least Bittern

A dark rufous morph, "neoxenus", termed "Cory's Bittern" or "Cory's Least Bittern" was originally described by Cory as a separate species in 1885, from a specimen collected on or near the Caloosahatchee River, near Lake Okeechobee, in southwest Florida; Cory stated that the specimen was "without doubt perfectly distinct from any other known species".

Michael Dahl

At several occasions, Christina let Dahl paint her portrait and she was able to establish an opportunity for Dahl to show a specimen of his work to Pope Innocent XI.

Moorhen

For example, specimen QM F30696, a left distal tibiotarsus piece from the Oligo-Miocene boundary at Riversleigh, is similar to but than and differs in details from "G." disneyi.

Mount Worth State Park

The wet, mountain rainforest of Mountain Ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching 300 years old), Blackwood and Mountain Grey Gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, Crimson Rosella, lyrebird and many others.

Neptunidraco

This specimen had been provisionally referred to an unnamed species of Late Jurassic Metriorhynchus or Geosaurus.

New Zealand Little Bittern

The first scientific specimen was reportedly obtained at Tauranga in the North Island by a Reverend Mr Stack in 1836, but is now untraceable.

North Island Brown Kiwi

Few documented cases exist with only a painting of one found in Otorohanga in the 18th century and a specimen in the Canterbury Museum.

Notoliparis antonbruuni

It was described in 2005 from a single poorly preserved specimen collected in 1966 from the hadal zone off Callao, Peru.

Odostomia pratoma

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Santa Rosa Island, California

Orodromeus

The holotype specimen, MOR 294, was found in a layer of the Two Medicine Formation, dating from the Campanian stage, about 75 million years ago.

Pelagosaurus

Pelagosaurus was originally described from a specimen from Normandy, but the holotype for P. typus was discovered north of the town of Ilminster in Somerset, England.

Phylliroe

Phylliroe has been seen approaching a swarm of the larvacean Oikopleura albicans from below, grabbing a specimen with its paired denticulate jaws and swallowing it in half a minute.

Polymastia lorum

It is only known from a single specimen found attached to a dead Glycimeris valve on a reef near Ohinau Island, one of the Mercury Islands off North Island, New Zealand.

Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni

Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni is known from a solitary fossil, the holotype, specimen number 1.ii.1969, which is currently in the collections of the University of Copenhagen.

Pseudatemelia flavifrontella

Like their relatives, they appear to be adaptable and have been recorded on such diverse foodstuffs as dead plants, dry leaves, dried insect specimens and even feathers.

Scillitan Martyrs

The Acta of the Scillitan Martyrs are considered to be the earliest documents of the church of Africa and also the earliest specimen of Christian Latin.

Shokawa

The generic name refers to the village of Shokawa, located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, while the specific name honors the collector of the first specimen, one Mr. Ikoi Shibata.

Small-eyed whiting

The species is known from only two specimens; the holotype collected by Roland McKay in 1985 from a Taipei market, both specimens of which were taken from the waters of Taiwan.

Suillus spraguei

Although the first specimen was originally collected in New England in 1856 by Charles James Sprague, a formal scientific description was not published until 1872 when Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis called it Boletus spraguei.

Tylosaurus

A photograph of a Tylosaurus skull was taken by George F. Sternberg about 1926 after he collected and prepared the specimen.

Viburnum australe

Viburnum australe was described as a separate species by Conrad Vernon Morton in 1933, from a specimen collected in 1906 by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle.

Villa de Merlo

"El Algarrobo Abuelo" ("the Grandfather Carob Tree") is a specimen more than a thousand years old and measuring more than 6 meters.

Zanthoxylum psammophilum

The type specimen for the plant was collected in the ecotone between the lowland Eastern Guinean forests (tropical rainforest) and the inland Guinean forest-savanna mosaic in the Lagunes region.


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