Establishment of an International Type‐Slide Collection for the Ciliate Protozoa*

Abstract

SYNOPSIS. An international collection center for type‐specimens of protozoa belonging to the subphylum Ciliophora has been set up at the University of Illinois through the cooperation of the Museum of Natural History there. The writer will act as curator of slides deposited in this central collection. Syntypes are solicited from all protozoologists interested in ciliate taxonomy who may possess such specimens. In accordance with provisions of Article 72 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, all material received will be properly handled and indexed and regarded as “the property of science”; preparations will be made available on loan to qualified workers anywhere who need them temporarily for research purposes. Existence of such a type‐slide collection should aid in alleviation of a growing number of vexatious problems in the systematics of the ciliate Protozoa at specific and generic levels.