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Originally Posted by Buffy
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Originally Posted by Stephen Jay Gould, I Have Landed p. 46
Museum curators traditionally affix red labels only to "holotype" specimens--that is, to individuals chosen as the official recipients of the name given to a new species.
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Linnean to a fault,
Buffy |
roger wilco: identify species before choosing label color. wouldn't it be awful to capture, kill, mount, and red-label the last of a species?
reptilian to a blame,
Turtle
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semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
