The lost species : great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums

The lost species Great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums

Christopher Kemp

Book - 2017

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Subjects
Natural history.
Type specimens (Natural history)
Biological specimens > Identification.
Natural history > Research.
Natural history > Catalogs and collections.
Natural history museums.
Published
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Christopher Kemp (author)
Physical Description
xxi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.
ISBN
9780226386218
  • Introduction
  • The Vertebrates
  • 1. Pushed up a Mountain and into the Clouds: The Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina)
  • 2. Beneath a Color 83 Sky: The Ucucha Mouse (Thomasomys ucucha)
  • 3. Going on a Tapir Hunt: The Little Black Tapir (Tapirus kabomani)
  • 4. ATaxonomic Confusion: The Saki Monkeys (Pithecia genus)
  • 5. Scattered to the Corners of the World: The Arfak Pygmy Bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini)
  • 6. The One That Got Away for 160 Years: Wallace's Pike Cichlid (Crenicichla monicae)
  • 7. Here Be Dragons: The Ruby Seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea)
  • 8. ACentury in a Jar: The Thorius Salamanders
  • 9. From a Green Bowl: The Overlooked Squeaker Frog (Arthrolkeptis kutogundua)
  • 10. A Body and a Disembodied Tail: Smith's Hidden Gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus)
  • The Invertebrates
  • 11. Treasure in the By-Catch: The Gall Wasps (Cynipoidea species)
  • 12. The Biomimic: The Lightning Cockroach (Lucihornetica luckae)
  • 13. Sunk beneath the Surface in a Sea of Beetles: Darwin's Rove Beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi)
  • 14. The Spoils of a Distant War: The Congo Duskhawker Dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica)
  • 15. A Specimen in Two Halves: Muir's Wedge-Shaped Beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri)
  • 16. Mary Kingsley's Longhorn Beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae)
  • 17. The Giant Flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus)
  • 18. It Came from Area 51: The Atomic Tarantula Spider (Aphonopelma atomicum)
  • 19. The Host with the Most: The Nematode Worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira)
  • 20. From a Time Machine on Cromwell Road: Ablett's Land Snail (Pseudopomatias abletti)
  • 21. In Sight of Land: Payden's Isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae)
  • 22. A Ball of Spines: Makarov's King Crab (Paralomis makarovi)
  • Botanical
  • 23. In an Ikea Bag: The Custard Apple Family (Monanthotaxis Genus)
  • The Others
  • 24. Waiting with Their Jackets On: The Fossils (Paleontology Specimens Collected by Elmer Riggs)
  • 25. The First Art: The Earliest Hominin Engraving (a 500,000-Year-Old Shell)
  • Epilogue
  • Illustration Captions and Credits
  • Notes
  • Index

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