Type specimens, samples of live individuals and the Galapagos Pink Land Iguana
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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.
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