Faunal records

Kenelm Philip fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu
Fri May 5 01:21:44 EDT 2000


	Michael Gochfeld noted:

>         The life of a faunistics specialist is filled with more serious
> challenges---such as verifying old published records when the collection
> and collector are no longer extant.

	Not to mention the strange things you can find in museum collec-
tions! There are specimens in both the AMNH and LACM carrying Alaska
locality labels that I cannot believe ever were anywhere near even the
southernmost tip of Alaska. Apparently some material from the Comstock
collection was incorrectly labeled... _Oeneis nevadensis_ from Kodiak
Island?(!)

							Ken Philip
fnkwp at uaf.edu




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