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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMW" data-source="post: 3907624" data-attributes="member: 80452">It's not the effect on the conservation status of this species, which I agree is probably negligible, but the principle. This species wasn't undescribed in anything other than the narrow and increasingly meaningless sense used by taxonomists. All that has changed is there is a dead one in a drawer somewhere, and another notch on a few academic CVs. The abstract is factually incorrect to state that the lack of a holotype prevented earlier description. All that was required was to designate a photograph or even a painting as depicting the holotype, both of which have been available for years.And lf course, it probably won't be just one specimen. If other individuals are mist netted, they will get potted too. Got to have a decent series, preferably from multiple locations.</blockquote>