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Spissistilus nigricans
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Copyright © 2022 California Academy of Sciences
CASTYPE 02147 -
Spissistilus nigricans
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San Diego County, California, USA
July 9, 1913
This is a lectotype.
coll. E.P. Van Duzee
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Contributed by
Hopper Museum
on 23 February, 2022 - 6:36pm
Last updated 12 July, 2023 - 11:05pm
CAS types database page--and sex determination for this specimen
Note that the California Academy of Sciences Types Database page for this specimen is
here
...and large-size images (e.g. 2679 x 2007) are accessible from that page.
Van Duzee's 1914 protologue (see
here
), indicated his species description was based on a number of specimens (i.e.
syntypes
) whose sexes were not indicated...and none was chosen as a
holotype
. The
aforementioned specimen page
indicates the individual seen here was chosen as a
lectotype
, but it doesn't indicate its sex. When all other things are equal, I think the convention is to choose a male specimen for a lectotype...but I don't think it's obligatory. However, the CAS Types Database has a
companion specimen page
for the
allotype
of
S. nigricans
...and that page explicitly indicates the allotype is a female. Presumably the allotype was chosen in association with this lectotype, and thus the post here should be a male.
[PS: If you know how determine the sex here from the photos (I don't!), and believe this is a female...please correct me!]
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Aaron Schusteff
, 3 July, 2023 - 1:30am
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