The lost species : great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums

Author

Christopher Kemp

Call Number

• 508.075 K321 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Physical Description

xxi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

• Introduction
• The vertebrates. Pushed up a mountain and into the clouds : the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina)
• Beneath a color 83 sky : the ucucha mouse (Thomasomys ucucha)
• Going on a tapir hunt : the little black tapir (Tapirus kabomani)
• A taxonomic confusion : the saki monkeys (Pithecia genus)
• Scattered to the corners of the world : the Arfak pygmy bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini)
• The one that got away for 160 years : Wallace's pike cichlid (Crenicichla monicae)
• Here be dragons : the ruby seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea)
• A century in a jar : the Thorius salamanders
• From a green bowl : the overlooked squeaker frog (Arthroleptis kutogundua)
• A body and a disembodied tail : Smith's hidden gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus)
• The invertebrates. Treasure in the by-catch : the gall wasps (Cynipoidea species)
• The biomimic : the lightning cockroach (Lucihormetica luckae)
• Sunk beneath the surface in a sea of beetles : Darwin's rove beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi)
• The spoils of a distant war : the Congo duskhawker dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica)
• A specimen in two halves : Muir's wedge-shaped beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri)
• Mary Kingsley's longhorn beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae)
• The giant flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus)
• It came from Area 51 : the atomic tarantula spider (Aphonopelma atomicum)
• The host with the most : the nematode worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira)
• From a time machine on Cromwell Road : Ablett's land snail (Pseudopomatias abletti)
• In sight of land : Payden's isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae)
• A ball of spines : Makarov's king crab (Paralomis makarovi)
• Botanical. In an Ikea bag : the custard apple family (Monanthotaxis genus)
• The others. Waiting with their jackets on : the fossils (paleontology specimens collected by Elmer Riggs)
• The first art : the earliest hominid engraving (a 500,000-year-old shell)
• Epilogue.