title: Warning: potential problems for taxonomy on the horizon?
abstract: Whether or not a species might reasonably be described without the preservation of a type specimen is a matter of ongoing discussion among taxonomists (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Minteer et al. 2014; Krell & Wheeler 2014; Löbl et al. 2016; Marshall & Evenhuis 2016; Santos et al. 2016). Here, we attempt to make our own contribution to the topic.
authors.affiliation: Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, Zoological Section "La Specola", I-50125 Florence, Italy. CNR-National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology, I-00015 Monterotondo Scalo (Rome), Italy.; Email: fabio.cianferoni@unifi.it.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cianferoni
authors.affiliation: CNR-National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology, I-00015 Monterotondo Scalo (Rome), Italy.; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bartolozzi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000145:classification*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000145:classification*; D015046:Zoology / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*