Zoosystematics and Evolution (May 2018)

Additional type and other notable specimens of Mollusca from the Montagu Collection in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter

  • P. Graham Oliver,
  • Holly Morgenroth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.24776
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 94, no. 2
pp. 281 – 303

Abstract

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This paper completes the review of the Col. George Montagu collection of shells in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter. A further twenty-one lots of type material were discovered bringing the total number of type lots to ninety-four. A number of other taxa that are of historic and potential nomenclatural significance are discussed. Specimens that relate to taxa of authors other than Montagu were isolated and consideration was given to the many non-British taxa that Montagu included in his works. To complete the study a list of all species represented in this collection is given.