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unusual facts about Type specimen



Anatrachyntis incertulella

The type specimens were collected there by the 1820s Beechey expedition and described by the English entomologist Francis Walker in 1864; they are now in the BMNH.

Angulomastacator

Angulomastacator (meaning "bend chewer", in reference to both the shape of its upper jaw and to the Big Bend area of the Rio Grande, where the type specimen was found) is a genus of duck-billed dinosaur from the Campanian-age (Late Cretaceous) Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Baltimartyria

The first known fossil was originally studied and described by Hans Rebel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria.

Banksia Island

It is located at 20° 24' S 115° 30' E. It is thought to be the "Banks Island" upon which the dipterist John Russell Malloch collected the type specimen for Lamprogaster indistincta, a species of signal fly, in 1928.

Bulwer's Pheasant

The species name bulweri is after Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer, Governor of Labuan 1871-1875, who presented the type specimen to the British Museum.

Dakotasuchus

The type specimen was found in an iron-cemented sandstone concretion near Salina.

Dulit Frogmouth

The type specimen was collected by Charles Hose in 1891 on Mount Dulit in northern Sarawak, at an altitude of about 600 m, with the bird being taken “in a small jungle hut into which it had flown in the dusk evidently attracted by the light”.

Eremophila laanii

The type specimen was collected on the Upper Murchison River, near Mount Hale, by C. Crossland.

Giant forest hog

The specific name honours Richard Meinertzhagen, who shot the type specimen in Kenya and had it shipped to the Natural History Museum in England.

Iridoteuthis maoria

The type specimen was collected off New Zealand and is deposited at the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington.

Losaria palu

Its name is a reference to Palu, as the type specimen was captured in the highlands near the city, but it is also known from lower altitudes in the region.

Nepenthes klossii

The type specimen of the species, Kloss s.n., was collected by Cecil Boden Kloss near an expedition campsite (camp VIb) on January 26, 1913, at an elevation of between 930 and 1170 m above sea level.

Ocypode brevicornis

However, his type specimens consisted only of two juvenile individuals from Pondicherry, India.

Oiceoptoma noveboracense

Oiceoptoma noveboracense's Latin specific name means "pertaining to New York" (Latin Novum Eboracum + -ensis), referring to the original source of the type specimen.

Parapinnixa affinis

The type specimen was a single female, collected in July 1895 from Dead Man's Island, San Pedro, California (now part of the Port of Los Angeles); it was donated to the University of California.

Proceratosaurus

The type specimen is held in the London Museum of Natural History and was recovered in 1910 at Minchinhampton while excavating for a reservoir.

Pyralis pictalis

The term "Poplar" in its common name does not refer to the trees, but to Poplar, London, where type specimen – from such an introduction – was caught.

Pyrops clavatus

The type specimen came from Assam through the collections of Theodore Edward Cantor based on which Westwood described the key features in Latin, noting specifically the upward curve of the cephalic process with its enlarged and rounded dull-brick-red tip, "apiceque adscendente, et in globum subrotundum, subpellucidum, laete testaceum terminato".

Rafflesia kerrii

The specimen later used as the type specimen was collected on February 3, 1929 at Khao Pho Ta Luang Kaeo near Ranong.

Salvia amissa

The type specimen is from the Santa Catalina Mountains, though plants have not been recorded there in recent years.

Scansoriopteryx

Because the only known specimens are juvenile, the size of a full-grown Scansoriopteryx is unknown–the type specimen is a tiny, sparrow-sized creature.

Sepia robsoni

The type specimen was collected in Hout Bay, South Africa and is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London.

Small-eyed whiting

The species was first described by Roland McKay in his 1985 review of the Sillaginidae based on two specimens collected from a Taipei market, Taiwan; one of which was designated to be the type specimen.

Turquoise-throated Puffleg

Only the type specimen from 1850 has a known locality, it being from the Chillo valley, Guayllabamba plains, Ecuador, at an altitude between 2,100 and 2,300 m asl.


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Acliceratia beddomei

The type specimen was retrieved in the Atlantic Ocean off Conakry, Guinea.

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.

Banksia croajingolensis

 croajingolensis was first published in 2007 by Bill Molyneux and Sussan Forrester, based on a type specimen collected by them above Shipwreck Creek in Croajingolong National Park on 24 August 2005.

Brachinite

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

Carabus hungaricus

The type specimen is in that part of Fabricius' collection that is at the Zoological Museum of Kiel University.

Cuvier's beaked whale

It wasn't until 1850 that zoologists realized the extant nature of the species, when Paul Gervais compared the type specimen to another that had stranded at Aresquiès, Hérault, in May of the same year, and found the two to be identical.

Cystiscidae

Rule of priority of the ICZN require that the name Cystiscidae must be used, but this is unfortunate because the type specimen of the type species is lost, and that species is poorly known.

Dinokanaga

The type specimen was found in shale outcrops along the Horsefly River near Horsefly, British Columbia and the species named in honor of Robin Webb of British Columbia.

Emanuel Bunzel

In 1871, he described a skull fragment found in an Austrian coal mine years before by colleagues Ferdinand Stoliczka and Eduard Suess as the type specimen for the dinosaur genus Struthiosaurus, the first discovered in the region.

Eriocampa tulameenensis

The type specimen is currently preserved in the Geological Survey of Canada paleoentomological collections in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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.

Gastrocopta iheringi

The specific name iheringi is in honor of the zoologist Hermann von Ihering, who collected the type specimen.

Holotype

Texan paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee proposed that a new type specimen, a complete skeleton, be designated.

Hooktooth dogfish

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

Josiah Marshall Heath

The Greater Asiatic yellow bat (Scotophilus heathi) was named in his honour after he presented the type specimen to the Zoological Society of London, together with a large collection of Asiatic birds.

Micropterix gertraudae

It is only known from the single type specimen in Baltic amber, which has been mined at Palmnicken (now Yantarnyy) near Kaliningrad.

Odostomia hypatia

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Skidegate, British Columbia

Odostomia pratoma

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

Odostomia zeteki

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Panama City, Panama

Paramelania damoni

--there exist two malacologist named Damon--> from Weymouth, who collected the type specimen.

Scutellosaurus

The type specimen of Scutellosaurus NMAP1.175 was recovered at the West Moenkopi Plateau locality in the Silty Facies Member of the Kayenta Formation, in Coconino County, Arizona.

Syrnola simplex

The type specimen of this marine species was found off Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia.

Turbonilla aracruzensis

The type specimen was found in the Atlantic Ocean off Aracruz, Espírito Santo State, Brazil, at depths between 28 m and 69 m.

Turbonilla garrettiana

The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off the Viti Levu Group.

Turbonilla obesa

The type specimen was collected in the Pacific Ocean at Pacific Beach, California, USA.

Vangueria bowkeri

It was described by Walter Robyns in 1928 and named after Colonel James Henry Bowker, the collector of the type specimen.

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.