S.D. van der Mije‡, Pepijn Kamminga§Corresponding author: S.D. van der Mije ( steven.vandermije@naturalis.nl ) © S.D. van der Mije, Pepijn Kamminga. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
van der Mije S, Kamminga P (2023) Type-specimens of recent mammals in Naturalis Biodiversity CenterPART 1. Monotremata, Didelphimorphia, Dasyuromorphia, Peramelemorphia, Diprotodontia, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Hyracoidea, Proboscidea, Scandentia, Primates, Rodentia (Mammalia). ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e117049 |  |
This is the first part of a catalogue containing all known types in the mammal collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, covering the orders Monotremata to Rodentia in the sequence according to Wilson and Reeder (2005). The remaining orders will be treated in the second part following later.
The catalogue started in the early 1990s as a basic inventory using historic catalogues. Chris Smeek, then curator of the mammal collection, researched the types until his death in 2017. The current authors continued with his work, resulting in the present publication.
We discuss in this first part 441 names and for 405 of these Naturalis holds type material. Of these names 184 are still in use (following Wilson and Reeder 2005) and of these we hold primary types for 157 names.