collecting

[Geoff Read]

>  Imagine our amusement when
> consulting companies ask whether we would like to keep family-level
> vouchers of invertebrates.

If it was a first record of the family I imagine the tune would be different.
This is not unusual in the less-exhaustively explored countries, at least in
the marine field.

The difficulty I have most encountered is getting the location, habitat, and
date information out of collectors. Non-taxonomists are not familiar with this
simple (seemingly obvious) requirement for every specimen lot to be
labelled for provenance.


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  Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>