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. | |