I wrote a short piece with @bruno-soares.bsky.social in BioScience about the importance of allowing researchers (particularly from the Global South) who might not be able to easily access type specimens to use topotypes instead. This podcast explains more: bioscience-talks.aibs.org/episodes/typ...
BioScience Talks | Type Localities and Topotypes, with Prosanta Chakrabarty and Bruno SoaresFor this episode, we're joined by Prosanta Chakrabarty, Director of Louisiana State University's Museum of Natural Science, where he is also the Fish Curator and a professor. Also joining us is Bru...bioscience-talks.aibs.org