The lost species
Subtitle: great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums
By: Christopher Kemp
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780226386218
Subjects: Natural history museums; Catalogs and collections; Type specimens (Natural history); Research; Biological specimens; Identification; Natural history; Popular works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: The vertebrates. -- 1.; title: Pushed up a mountain and into the clouds : the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) ; -- 2.; title: Beneath a color 83 sky : the ucucha mouse (Thomasomys ucucha) ; -- 3.; title: Going on a tapir hunt : the little black tapir (Tapirus kabomani) ; -- 4.; title: A taxonomic confusion : the saki monkeys (Pithecia genus) ; -- 5.; title: Scattered to the corners of the world : the Arfak pygmy bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini) ; -- 6.; title: The one that got away for 160 years : Wallace's pike cichlid (Crenicichla monicae) ; -- 7.; title: Here be dragons : the ruby seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea) ; -- 8.; title: A century in a jar : the Thorius salamanders ; -- 9.; title: From a green bowl : the overlooked squeaker frog (Arthroleptis kutogundua) ; -- 10.; title: A body and a disembodied tail : Smith's hidden gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus) --; title: The invertebrates. -- 11.; title: Treasure in the by-catch : the gall wasps (Cynipoidea species) ; -- 12.; title: The biomimic : the lightning cockroach (Lucihormetica luckae) ; -- 13.; title: Sunk beneath the surface in a sea of beetles : Darwin's rove beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi) ; -- 14.; title: The spoils of a distant war : the Congo duskhawker dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica) ; -- 15.; title: A specimen in two halves : Muir's wedge-shaped beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri) ; -- 16. Mary Kingsley's longhorn beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae) ; -- 17.; title: The giant flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus) ; -- 18.; title: It came from Area 51 : the atomic tarantula spider (Aphonopelma atomicum) ; -- 19. The host with the most : the nematode worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira) ; -- 20.; title: From a time machine on Cromwell Road : Ablett's land snail (Pseudopomatias abletti) ; -- 21.; title: In sight of land : Payden's isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae) ; -- 22.; title: A ball of spines : Makarov's king crab (Paralomis makarovi) --; title: Botanical. -- 23.; title: In an Ikea bag : the custard apple family (Monanthotaxis genus) --; title: The others. -- 24.; title: Waiting with their jackets on : the fossils (paleontology specimens collected by Elmer Riggs) ; -- 25.; title: The first art : the earliest hominid engraving (a 500,000-year-old shell) --; title: Epilogue ---- Illustration captions and credits.