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