Photographs and other images are useful, important, and excellent tools. Photographs can serve as proxys for the types (as many old illustrations do) and aid in their interpretation. Photographs and video recordings, however, cannot and should not BE type specimens. Biological type specimens must exist in actual, not virtual reality.

Images are not and should not ever be type specimens: a rebuttal to Garraffoni & Freitas

Taiti Stefano;
2017

Abstract

Photographs and other images are useful, important, and excellent tools. Photographs can serve as proxys for the types (as many old illustrations do) and aid in their interpretation. Photographs and video recordings, however, cannot and should not BE type specimens. Biological type specimens must exist in actual, not virtual reality.
2017
Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri - IRET
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