Early collections of B. acanthopoda include a specimen collected by F. W. Humphreys between Katanning and Kwobrup on 21 December 1964, a specimen collected by Alex George west of Woodanilling on 26 July 1986, a specimen collected by Ray Garstone north of Woodanilling on 7 October 1986, and a specimen collected by Ken Newbey east of Katanning.
"This story has been updated to clarify that the bird was euthanised and the specimen collected," Audubon wrote.
I am thrilled to see the actual specimen collected by German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1919 1819 and I am pleased that it is so carefully preserved.
The animal had never before been photographed; the only previous proof of its existence was a specimen collected by Willoughby Lowe, the British explorer for whom the animal is named, in 1932.
"When we're doing an identification," says Martin Cheek, "and using a specimen collected by Gustav Mann, we know they were all by themselves in a forest writing the label, then and there.
The Fiji petrel (Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi), classified by the IUCN as Critically Endangered, was formerly known from one specimen collected in 1855 on Gau Island.
Histological examination of the biopsy specimen collected from the ulcerative lesion showed squamous cell carcinoma.
However, its histology was similar to that in a biopsy specimen collected from the right mammary gland (see below), indicating possible metastasis of the mammary tumor.
In addition, the oil from another specimen collected in Roraima, Brazil, presented β-bisabolol as the main component, followed by limonene and epi-α-bisabolol [15].
Once there, he came across an unusual specimen collected near the Fitzmaurice River in 1994.
The species was first described in 1891 from a specimen collected in China's Haidong Prefecture.
