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Type Specimen Curation

Type Specimen Curation is the systematic preservation, documentation, and archival management of holotypes or primary reference specimens in museum collections to ensure taxonomic stability and scientific reproducibility.

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93

Authors

61

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2017–2026

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Holotype specimens and type citations: General issues

John McNeill · Taxon · 2014 · 311 citations

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NMNH Extant Specimen Records (USNM, US)

Thomas Orrell · Global Biodiversity Information Facility · 2016 · 71 citations · Full text

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A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens

Peter Uetz, SAMI CHERIKH, Glenn M. Shea et al. · Zootaxa · 2019 · 70 citations · Full text

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Catalogue of crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca

Roger Springthorpe, J. K. LOWRY · Technical Reports of the Australian Museum · 1994 · 38 citations · Full text

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New species and subspecies descriptions do not and should not always require a dead type specimen

Thomas M. Donegan · Zootaxa · 2008 · 33 citations · Full text

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Authors

93

  1. RW
    Roy W. McDiarmid

    National Museum of Natural History, United States

    2 publications · 82 citations

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  2. RG
    Richard Gemel

    Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria

    2 publications · 90 citations

    2

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  3. AH
    Addison H. Wynn

    National Museum of Natural History, United States

    2 publications · 82 citations

    2

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  4. ED
    Esther Dondorp

    Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands

    1 publications · 70 citations

    1

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  5. CJ
    Christopher J. Raxworthy

    American Museum of Natural History, United States

    1 publications · 70 citations

    1

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Institutions

61

  1. Natural History Museum Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    160 citations

  2. Smithsonian Institution

    Washington, United States

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    202 citations

  3. Australian Museum

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    286 citations

  4. Zoological Institute

    St Petersburg, Russia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    87 citations

  5. National Museum of Natural History

    Washington, United States

    2 h-index

    9 publications

    340 citations

  6. Museum of the History of Science

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    70 citations

  7. Schools of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  8. California Academy of Sciences

    San Francisco, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    70 citations

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Venues

  1. Zootaxa

    4 publications · 140 citations

    4

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  2. Copeia

    2 publications · 26 citations

    2

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  3. Canadian Journal of Zoology

    1 publications · 12 citations

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