[Taxacom] highest number of new species described in one paper

[Jim Croft]

yeah, but there is something very strange about that island group and
what it does to taxonomists...

jim

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Neal Evenhuis <neale at bishopmuseum.org> wrote:
> At 7:10 PM -0700 5/29/08, Vazrick Nazari wrote:
>>I am trying to find out the largest number of species (or taxa for
>>that matter) new to science, described in a single taxonomic paper
>>published post 1900.
>>Anyone has a favorite example?
>
> The late Elmo Hardy in 1965 described 341 drosophilids (all taxa
> including genus-group names and species-group names) in one work
> (Insects of Hawaii); this includes 195 new species (no subspecies) in
> just the genus Drosophila from just a tiny little island group way
> out here in the middle of the Pacific.
>
> -Neal
>
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