Dear all,
See below - can we help Christopher with polychaete examples for his book?
Best,
Lena
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Subject: FW: [Nhcoll-l] Species with long shelf lives -- Another call!
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 02:50:04 +0000
From: Elena Kupriyanova <Elena.Kupriyanova from austmus.gov.au>
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*From:*Christopher Kemp [mailto:cjkemp from gmail.com]
*Sent:* Friday, 17 April 2015 8:40 PM
*To:* Elena Kupriyanova
*Subject:* RE: [Nhcoll-l] Species with long shelf lives -- Another call!
Hi Lena,
Yes, please send examples and forward my request to your list!
I know there's a lot of this about so I'm looking for superlative
examples -- really distinct species that have sat for decades or even a
century, half-forgotten. I know sometimes new species are identified
which have tiny differences in DNA to another species they're almost
distinguishable from. I'm less interested in those. I'm after those
stories of breathless discovery, where a researcher opens a museum
drawer and knows instantly that she is looking at something new.
Thanks!
--ck
On Apr 17, 2015 12:37 AM, "Elena Kupriyanova"
<Elena.Kupriyanova from austmus.gov.au
<mailto:Elena.Kupriyanova from austmus.gov.au>> wrote:
Hi Christopher,
The situation is actually quite common in marine invertebrates. I can
send you examples from my own work, but can also forward your question
to Annelida list.
Cheers,
Lena
*Dr. Elena Kupriyanova*
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*Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Species with long shelf lives -- Another call!
Hi great friends! A few months ago, I requested input from you in
putting together a list of recently described species (let's say in the
last 10 years) for which the holotypes, or paratypes, or at least some
specimen or other, had been collected decades earlier and then sat in a
biorepository for a long time, awaiting description. I know they're out
there. Mysterious lost species. Some wait for a century before they
finally get a name. I've just submitted a book proposal for a project on
these lost species so I need as many contenders as possible: mammal,
snake, plant, mineral, bird, insect, amphibian, everything. Last time I
made the request, I was astonished and excited by the response. I have a
great list, but I definitely need more. Please feel free to come up with
more! Doesn't matter if I get replicates or examples I got previously.
Let her rip! Great, thanks in advance. Best -- ck
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