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Author Kemp, Christopher, author.

Title The lost species : great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums / Christopher Kemp.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  508.092 KEMP, CHRISTOPHER    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.
Contents 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).
Subject Natural history -- Popular works.
Type specimens (Natural history) -- Popular works.
Biological specimens -- Identification -- Popular works.
Natural history -- Research -- Popular works.
Natural history -- Catalogs and collections.
Natural history museums.
Biological specimens -- Identification. (OCoLC)fst01199358
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
Natural history museums. (OCoLC)fst01034350
Natural history -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01034307
Type specimens (Natural history) (OCoLC)fst01159971
Genre/Form Catalogs and collections. (OCoLC)fst01423697
Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
ISBN 9780226386218 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
022638621X
9780226386355 (e-book)
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