Record Details
| Donegan, T M | |
| Type specimens, samples of live individuals and the Galapagos pink land iguana | |
| Zootaxa | |
| 2009 | |
| Journal Article | |
| 2201 | |
| 12-20 | |
| Conolophus marthae | |
| 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. | |