Progress or burden? Formal description of every apparently new species available in collections is neither necessary nor useful

A. Huber, Bernhard; Szymański, Hubert; Bennett-West, Alice

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1214.130592

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Progress or burden? Formal description of every apparently new species available in collections is neither necessary nor useful

Published in ZooKeys • Oct 1, 2024

Authors:

Bernhard A. Huber

Hubert Szymański

Alice Bennett-West

Abstract

A new species of the Sub-Saharan spider genus Quamtana Huber, 2003 is described that has been collected in garden centers in Poland and the UK. Its closest known relative is probably Q. lotzi Huber, 2003, known from Free State Province in South Africa. Working on the premise that placing species in ...

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Computer science

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