Type Specimens of Animals and Plants
in the Collection of the
Royal British Columbia Museum
Gordon
Green and Alex E. Peden
Royal British Columbia Museum
Victoria, British Columbia
(The hard copy
of this document was published by the Royal BC Museum in 1992.)
ABSTRACT
Type specimens (except paleontological types) deposited in the Royal
British Columbia Museum (formerly the British Columbia Provincial Museum),
are listed. These include 32 plants, 77 insects, 4 millipedes, 1 sponge,
33 hydrozoans, 4 anthozoans, 1 branchiobdellid, 11 polychaetes, 21 crustaceans,
23 molluscs, 1 echinoderm, 11 fish, 1 amphibian, 3 birds, and 24 mammals.
Specimens labelled as type specimens for which no citation could be
found are not listed.
INTRODUCTION
Since publication of a list of type specimens in the British Columbia
Provincial Museum, (now the Royal British Columbia Museum), (Peden and
Green 1981), numerous types have been deposited at the RBCM. A recent
inventory of all RBCM collections also uncovered additional type material
not reported in the 1981 paper. Here, we provide an updated list of
type material including types not listed in the first publication.
Citation, status, and collection
information are given for each species. The definition of type status
for each entry is that used by the original describer and has not been
interpreted by the authors (e.g. "female type" = holotype, allotype?).
Collection data is taken from specimen labels except where there is
a major discrepancy with the literature. These exceptions are noted
when they occur. In some instances label data are minimal, so the reader
should refer to the original description. For some species, original
describers have designated a male "type" and a female "type" and in
such instances we have made no iterpretation as to the status of either
specimen (e.g. syntypes, allotypes, or lectotypes). Specimens labeled
as "types" for which no published description could be found are not
listed.
Type specimens housed at the Royal
B.C. Museum have previously been reported by Cowan (1936), Arai (1977)
and Peden and Green (1981).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank the following people for their assistance
in the preparation of this paper. C.S. Guppy assisted in compiling the
list of insect types and in finding original descriptions of some insect
species. Kelly Sendall, Dave Nagorsen and Lesley Kennes brought invertebrate,
vertebrate and plant types to the attention of the authors. Jim Troubridge
and Don LaFontaine of Agriculture Canada supplied Lepidoptera citations.
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CLEMENS W.A. And G.V.WILBY
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COWAN, I. McT. 1936. Notes
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list of the type specimens of North American recent mammals in the
museum. Canadian Field-Naturalist 50:145-148.
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HODGES, R.W., T.DOMINICK,
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