During #SSB2026 @bruno-soares.bsky.social gave an excellent talk about the difficulty Global South researchers have describing new species because they often have to view types in US/European museums.
Here is one solution we came up, published today: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Type localities, the geographic areas from which type specimens originate, play a central role in taxonomy (Azevedo-Santos et al. 2025, 2026). Despite thei
