Yukon collecting license

Kenelm Philip fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu
Sun Feb 11 17:36:45 EST 2001


> Let alone that all parties involved will use the same taxonomy, who will
> verify that the information about the catches is correct?

This is a perennial problem in all such cases. I have found misidentified
specimens in major museum collections (with good curators). _Any_ list of
species from a given area may have incorrect determinations in it.

	Nonetheless, the presence of errors does not mean that no species
lists should ever be made. At least the records compiled under the YT
act would enable a specialist to track down the various collectors and
ask to see any 'interesting' species they reported. :-)

							Ken Philip
fnkwp at uaf.edu




 
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