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Post by wollastoni on Jul 31, 2011 7:33:28 GMT -8
Papilio monsantoi has disappeared...
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Post by nomihoudai on Jul 31, 2011 13:18:14 GMT -8
Give me another 50 years and I might try to take a look at them and get them ID'd
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Post by exoticimports on Aug 18, 2011 11:00:26 GMT -8
Finding a new species is easy if you're willing to visit remote and/or dangerous places. Finding a new subspecies is even easier- many times one can guess at where a different subspecies would occur, particularly in archipellegos.
I name argyronympha rubianensis masolo for Tia Masolo at Solomon Islands Ministry of Natural Resources because he had been instrumental to my field work. This was when new ant naming rights were selling for $10,000....I never did tell Tia that we could have sold the naming rights instead and pocketed four times his annual salary!
John Tennent BMNH almost snuck through with Polyura thane...the stiff upper lip British peers took forever to figure that one out, but all along they knew he was up to something so delayed and delayed publication until they figured it out!
I had always threatened to name a new species/sub tennantisapennis, for which I was always reminded that paybacks are a bitch.
The hard part isn't finding something new, I'd be willing to bet that if I looked at little stuff I could find something in my back yard within a year.
The hard part is making sure you haven't cross-described a recent species/sub and that means you have to have access to all the journals, etc and/or recognized individuals (experts) to do the peer review.
Then try to get published in a recognized magazine as an amateur...good luck!
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Post by wingedwishes on Aug 19, 2011 3:17:13 GMT -8
Polyura thane............. Priceless!
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Post by africaone on Aug 19, 2011 3:58:49 GMT -8
Polyurathane ... nice joke
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Post by jshuey on Aug 19, 2011 4:46:07 GMT -8
I don't think this one is published quite yet, but John Burns has a manuscript name to pull a sibling species on the skipper Nascus phocus as Nascus outoffocus - althiough I'm sure he will spell the latter name "more better" than me.
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Post by jackblack on Aug 23, 2011 3:14:16 GMT -8
There is ample opportunity in Australia to discover new species . I know several people who have had species named after them who collected the types, yes it is an honour and it can be a geat inspiration to have a critter named after you , therfeore furthering discovery . There is an extinct snake in Aussie name Montypythenoides ! We named a new Phasmid after a young guy recently who helped us with our research and he has been a wealth of information since . So inspire the enthusiast.
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Post by wingedwishes on Aug 24, 2011 2:33:40 GMT -8
Just imagine someone naming Harrypotteranus.......
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Post by jshuey on Aug 24, 2011 5:24:24 GMT -8
Just imagine someone naming Harrypotteranus....... Close - Dracorex hogwartsia - a dino named for the movie
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Post by jshuey on Aug 24, 2011 5:26:23 GMT -8
Just imagine someone naming Harrypotteranus....... Attachments:
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Post by wingedwishes on Aug 29, 2011 18:19:55 GMT -8
Straying into the fanciful, I made a model of a plant inside a glass stoppered bottle which was etched "sulfuric acid." I named it ] Chernoblus accidentalus [/u]
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Post by wingedwishes on Aug 29, 2011 18:29:38 GMT -8
In a class I had to design an animal that did not exist but, in theory, could. I designed a tree (plant instead) which had a Venus Flytrap like flower which used phosphoresent bacteria to glow at night. Small nocturnal moths which were attracted to the light were captured and eaten. I called it Tineacomedentis flosphlores (moth eating glow flower). ;D
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