Asian elephant: type specimen confusion

[Tim May]

I don’t recall seeing this posted previously but apologies if it has been and I’ve overlooked it; see link below.

Linnaeus's Asian elephant was wrong species : Nature News & Comment

ZooChatters living in the London area might be interested to know that this is the subject of a Linnean Society Meeting on 1st May 2014.

 

[Kifaru Bwana]

Thanks Tim! A thoroughly entertaining example of misidentification in a natural history collection.

It has happened to me on occasion too!

 

[vogelcommando]

Intresting stuff !