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Figure 1 from: Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Livermore L, Simonsen T, Smith V (2012) No specimen left behind: industrial scale digitization of natural history collections. ZooKeys 209: 133-146. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.209.3178
Figure 1 - SatScan imaging: a SatScan machine b specimens being imaged c individual frames aligned d fragment of a stitched image; final resolution of the stitched image ~11 lines/mm.
Figure 2 from: Blagoderov V, Kitching I, Livermore L, Simonsen T, Smith V (2012) No specimen left behind: industrial scale digitization of natural history collections. ZooKeys 209: 133-146. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.209.3178
Figure 2 - Image based digitization workflow consisting of four stages: Imaging, Metadata capture, Institutional databading and Publication.
Figure 3 from: Saarenmaa H, Tegelberg R, Haapala J, Mononen T, Pajari M (2012) The development of a digitising service centre for natural history collections. ZooKeys 209: 75-86. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.209.3119
Figure 3 - Image of a plant sheet stitched together from two parts – their boundary is barely noticeable in the middle of this sample. Notice the two-dimensional barcode, and a resolvable unique URI of the specimen details.
Plate 3 from: Hoffmann D, Geller-Grimm F (2013) A catalog of bird specimens associated with Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied and potential type material in the natural history collection in Wiesbaden. ZooKeys 353: 81-93. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.353.4198
Plate 3 - Bird specimens from Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied with potential type status, continued. Clockwise from upper left: Conopophaga lineata, Myrmeciza ruficauda, Cyanocorax cyanopogon, Tangaravelia cyanomelas, Coryphospingus pileatus, Schistochlamys ruficapillus capistratus, Thraupis palmarum palmarum (mounted), Thraupis palmarum palmarum (study skin), Oryzoborus maximiliani.
Plate 2 from: Hoffmann D, Geller-Grimm F (2013) A catalog of bird specimens associated with Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied and potential type material in the natural history collection in Wiesbaden. ZooKeys 353: 81-93. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.353.4198
Plate 2 - Bird specimens from Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied with potential type status. Clockwise from upper left: Touit melanonota, Glaucidiumminutissimum, Spizaetus tyrannus (mounted), Spizaetus tyrannus (study skin), Conopiastrivirgatus, Lipaugus vociferans (mounted), Lipaugus vociferans (study skin), Todirostrum poliocephalum.
Plate 1 from: Hoffmann D, Geller-Grimm F (2013) A catalog of bird specimens associated with Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied and potential type material in the natural history collection in Wiesbaden. ZooKeys 353: 81-93. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.353.4198
Plate 1 - Bird specimens from Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied in the MWNH collection that are definitely not type material. Clockwise from upper left: Sterna paradisaea, Anser albifrons albifrons, Meleagris gallopavo osceola, Aulacorhynchus prasinus atrogularis, Colaptes auratus auratus-group, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, Sporophila caerulescens.
Figure 2 from: Hwang C (2014) Annotated type catalogue of land snails collected from Taiwan (Formosa) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 428: 1-28. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.428.8061
Figure 2 - A Oospira formosensis (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.5/1 B Oospira swinhoei (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040583/1 C Elma swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.14/1 D Videnoida shermani (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040584/1 E Petalochlamys formosanus (Schmacker & Boettger, 1891) syn. Petalochlamys hypograpta Godwin-Austen, 1907, holotype NHMUK 1903.7.1.1713 F Petalochlamys vesta (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040580 G Ovachlamys fulgens (Gude, 1900) syn. Lamprocystis fulgida Godwin-Austen, 1907, holotype NHMUK 1903.7.1.1714 H Aegista fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.10/1 I Aegista granti (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040579. Scale bars = 5 mm.
Figure 3 from: Hwang C (2014) Annotated type catalogue of land snails collected from Taiwan (Formosa) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 428: 1-28. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.428.8061
Figure 3 - A Pseudobuliminus incertus (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040582/1 B Acusta assimilis (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.11/1 C Nesiohelix swinhoei (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040585/1 D Dolicheulota formosensis (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.1/1 E Dolicheulota swinhoei (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040586/1 F Satsuma bacca (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040577/1 G Satsuma bacca (Pfeiffer, 1866) syn. Eulota warburgi Gude, 1907, holotype NHMUK 1922.8.29.66 H Satsuma bairdi (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040587/1. Scale bars = 5 mm.
Figure 1 from: Hwang C (2014) Annotated type catalogue of land snails collected from Taiwan (Formosa) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 428: 1-28. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.428.8061
Figure 1 - A Cyclotus taivanus H. Adams, 1870, lectotype NHMUK 1871.1.20.9/1 B Platyrhaphe minutus (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.6/1 C Platyrhaphe swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.7/10 D Ptychopoma wilsoni (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040584/1 E Chamalycaeus hungerfordianus (Nevill, 1881), possible syntype NHMUK 1891.3.17.790 F Dioryx swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.8/1 G Pupinella swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.15/1 H Pupinella swinhoei syn. Pupinopsis morrisonia H. Adams, 1872, lectotype NHMUK 1871.1.20.16/1 I Euphaedusa sheridani (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040589/1 J Hemiphaedusa exilis (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.4/1 K Hemiphaedusa similaris (H. Adams, 1867), lectotype NHMUK 1878.1.28.10/1. Scale bars = 5 mm, unless otherwise specified above the bar.
Figure 4 from: Hwang C (2014) Annotated type catalogue of land snails collected from Taiwan (Formosa) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 428: 1-28. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.428.8061
Figure 4 - A Satsuma formosensis (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040578 B Satsuma mellea (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040576/1 C Satsuma succincta (H. Adams, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 1866.5.9.9/1 D Satsuma sphaeroconus (Pfeiffer, 1866), lectotype NHMUK 20040575/1. Scale bars = 5 mm.
Figure 3 from: Miller CG (2016) Sherborn's foraminiferal studies and their influence on the collections at the Natural History Museum, London. In: Michel E (Ed.) Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond. ZooKeys 550: 71–81. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.550.9863
Figure 3 - A. Sherborn (left) and A. W. Rowe (right) doing field work on an outcrop of chalk reproduced from Hart and Bailey (2013) with permission from Natural History Museum. B. Sherborn (right) and C. P. Chatwin (left) during fieldwork on the British Chalk.
Figure 1 from: Miller CG (2016) Sherborn's foraminiferal studies and their influence on the collections at the Natural History Museum, London. In: Michel E (Ed.) Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond. ZooKeys 550: 71–81. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.550.9863
Figure 1 - C. D. Sherborn bookplate acquired by Heron-Allen and pasted into the first couple of pages of Heron-Allen's copy of Sherborn (1888b). Heron-Allen wrote 'The original figure Globigerina bulloides is 23.5cm in height, is quite accurately reproduced.'
Figure 2 from: Miller CG (2016) Sherborn's foraminiferal studies and their influence on the collections at the Natural History Museum, London. In: Michel E (Ed.) Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond. ZooKeys 550: 71–81. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.550.9863
Figure 2 - Handwritten note with the collections referring to slides donated by C. D. Sherborn from excavation to widen the Cannon Street Rail Bridge. Representative illustration of Lias Foraminifera from Northamptonshire from Crick and Sherborn (1891, part of fig. 1)
Figures 46-64 from: Vinarski MV (2016) Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(1): 131-152. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.8107
Figures 46-64 - Type specimens of Lymnaeidae (ZMB), continuation. 46 – Limnaeus subulatus Dunker in Küster, 1862, a syntype. 47 – Limnaeus sulcatulus Troschel, 1837, a syntype. 48 – Limnaea tigrina Dohrn, 1858, the syntype. 49 – Limnaea undussumae von Martens, 1897, the lectotype. 50 – Bullastra velutinoides Bergh, 1901, a syntype. 51 – Limnaea whartoni Jones & Preston, 1904, a syntype. 52 – Limnaea lagotis var. yarkandensis Nevill, 1878, a syntype. 53 – Limnaeus coarctatus Dunker. 54 – Limnaeus compactus "Ziegler". 55 – Limnaea cornea "Ziegler". 56 – Limnaea elgonensis Preston. 57 – Limnaea fernanensis Preston. 58 – Limnaeus nebulosus Dunker. 59 – Limnaea acuminata var. nevilli von Martens. 60 – Limnaeus nigricans "Ziegler". 61 – Limnaeus nitens "Ziegler". 62 – Limnaeus opacus "Ziegler". 63 – Amphipeplea pfefferiana Dunker. 64 – Limnaea splendens Dunker. Scale bars: 2 mm (51, 52, 55–58, 60–63), 5 mm (46–50, 53, 54, 59, 64).
Figures 22-31 from: Vinarski MV (2016) Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(1): 131-152. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.8107
Figures 22-31 - Type specimens of Lymnaeidae (ZMB), continuation. 22 – Limnaea gutta Villa & Villa, 1871, the syntype. 23 – Limnaea humerosa von Martens, 1897, the lectotype. 24 – Stagnicola impedita Baker, 1934, a paratype. 25 – Limnaeus javanicus var. intumescens von Martens, 1867, a syntype. 26 – Limnaea kempi Preston, 1911, the syntype. 27 – Limnaea limosa var. ovata f. margaritacea Westerlund, 1865, a syntype. 28 – Limnaea stagnalis var. westerlundi f. nereni Westerlund, 1894, a syntype. 29 – Limnaea nitidella von Martens, 1885, the lectotype. 30 – Limnaeus nucleus Troschel, 1837, a syntype. 31 – Limnaea nyansae von Martens, 1892, a syntype. Scale bars: 1 mm (22, 26, 29), 2 mm (23, 24, 27, 31), 5 mm (25, 28, 30).
Figures 10-21 from: Vinarski MV (2016) Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(1): 131-152. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.8107
Figures 10-21 - Type specimens of Lymnaeidae (ZMB, ZIN), continuation. 10 – Limnaea auricularia var. coreana von Martens, 1886, a syntype. 11 – Limnaea lagotis var. costulata. 12 – Limnaea cubensis Pfeiffer, 1839, a syntype. 13 – Amphipeplea cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845, a probable syntype (ZMB No. 109771). 14 – Limnaea amygdalum var. cycacea Troschel, 1837, a syntype. 15 – Limnaea elmeteitensis Smith, 1894, a syntype. 16 – Stagnicola elrodi Baker & Henderson, 1933, a syntype. 17 – Limnaea ovata var. eversa von Martens, 1882, the lectotype. 18 – Limnaea ovata var. eversa von Martens, 1882, a paralectotype. 19 – Limnaeus natalensis var. exsertus von Martens, 1966, the syntype. 20 – Amphipeplea ampulla var. globosa Suter, 1891, a syntype. 21 – Limnaea acuminata var. gracilior von Martens, 1881, the syntype. Scale bars: 1 mm (12, 19), 2 mm (11, 13, 15–18, 20, 21), 5 mm (10, 14). All shells are from ZMB collection, except of 17 (ZIN).
Figures 1-9 from: Vinarski MV (2016) Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(1): 131-152. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.8107
Figures 1-9 - Type specimens of Lymnaeidae (ZMB). 1 – Limnaea alfredi Suter, 1890, a paralectotype. 2 – Limnaea ovata var. amnicola Westerlund, 1890, a syntype. 3, 4 – Limnaeus amygdalum Troschel, 1837, two syntypes. 5 – Limnaea javanica var. angustior von Martens, 1881, a syntype. 6 – Limnaea brevispira von Martens, 1897, the holotype. 7 – Limnaea stagnalis var. baltica Lindström, 1869, a syntype. 8 – Limnaeus cerasum Troschel, 1837, a syntype. 9 – Limnaea columella var. championi von Martens, 1899, a syntype. Scale bars: 1 mm (1), 2 mm (2–6, 8–9), 5 mm (7).
Figures 32-45 from: Vinarski MV (2016) Annotated type catalogue of lymnaeid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(1): 131-152. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.8107
Figures 32-45 - Type specimens of Lymnaeidae (ZMB), continuation. 32 – Limnaeus javanicus var. obesus von Martens, 1867, a syntype. 33 – Limnaeus obliquatus von Martens, 1864, a syntype. 34 – Limnaeus patulus Troschel, 1837, a syntype. 35 – Limnaeus pervius von Martens, 1867, the lectotype. 36 – Limnaea pettiti Jones & Preston, 1904, a syntype. 37 – Limnaea javanica var. porrecta von Martens, 1881, a syntype. 38 – Limnaeus prunum Troschel, 1837, a syntype. 39 – Limnaea ovata var. sericina Westerlund, 1890, a syntype. 40 – Limnaea shantungensis Jones & Preston, 1904, a syntype. 41 – Limnaea ovata var. solidior von Martens, 1882, a syntype. 42 – Limnaea lagotis var. solidissima Kobelt, 1872, a syntype. 43 – Limnaea solidulus Villa & Villa, 1871, a syntype. 44 – Limnaea amygdalum var. straminea Troschel, 1837, a syntype. 45 – Limnaea javanica var. subteres von Martens, 1881. Scale bars – 1 mm (40), 2 mm (32, 35, 36, 38, 39, 42–43, 45), 5 mm (33, 34, 37, 44).
Figure 1 from: Webster RP, Bouchard P, Klimaszewski J, Sweeney JD (2016) History of Coleoptera collecting in New Brunswick, Canada: advancing our knowledge of the Coleoptera fauna in the early 21st century. In: Webster RP, Bouchard P, Klimaszewski J (Eds) The Coleoptera of New Brunswick and Canada: providing baseline biodiversity and natural history data. ZooKeys 573: 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.573.8123
Figure 1 - Number of species recorded for Canadian provinces and territories over time. Data extracted from: Bousquet (1991), white bars; Bousquet et al. (2013), gray bars; this article, black bar. Acronyms: AB: Alberta, BC: British Columbia, LB: Labrador, MB: Manitoba, NB: New Brunswick, NF: Newfoundland, NS: Nova Scotia, NT: Northern Territory, NU: Nunavut, ON: Ontario, PE: Prince Edward Island, QC: Quebec, SK: Saskatchewan, YT: Yukon Territory.
Supplementary material 1 from: Hobern D, Livermore L, Vincent S, Robertson T, Miller JT, Groom Q, Grosjean M (2022) Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World's Natural History Collections. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e98593. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e98593
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