The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

The test is unstable ( i. e. the crack propagates along the entire specimen once a critical load is attained ) and a modified version of this test characterised by a non constant inertia was proposed called the tapered double cantilever beam ( TDCB ) specimen.

* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.

A live specimen was caught in 1938 off southern Africa ; other coelacanths have since been found in the vicinity of the Comoro Islands.

Phylis Canion, who was responsible for capturing the alleged specimen, claimed that t-shirts highlighting the event were shipped to locations such as Italy, Guam, and Iraq.

Climbing cacti can be very large ; a specimen of Hylocereus was reported as long from root to the most distant stem.

The image displayed by an SEM maps the varying intensity of any of these signals into the image in a position corresponding to the position of the beam on the specimen when the signal was generated.

The type specimen was the Taung Child, an Australopithecine infant which was discovered in a cave.

Also, the specimen showed short canine teeth, and the position of the foramen magnum was evidence of bipedal locomotion.

He was one of the earliest composers for stringed instruments, and Athanasius Kircher has given one specimen of this class of his works in his Musurgia.

A specimen was bought in 1971 by the Icelandic Museum of National History for the sum of £ 9000, which placed it in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive stuffed bird ever sold.

The largest verified wild specimen was long and weighed, including undigested food.

This was disputed when London Zoological Garden employee Joan Proctor trained a captive specimen to come out to feed at the sound of her voice, even when she could not be seen.

The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878 ; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.

Paranthropus boisei was discovered by Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at the FLK Bed I site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania ( specimen OH 5 ).

It was independently described as Ornithorhynchus paradoxus by Johann Blumenbach in 1800 ( from a specimen given to him by Sir Joseph Banks ) and following the rules of priority of nomenclature it was later officially recognised as Ornithorhynchus anatinus.

Whitman sent Martha, which was to be the last known specimen, to Cincinnati Zoo in 1902.

The first Pterodactylus specimen was described by the Italian scientist Cosimo Alessandro Collini in 1784, based on a fossil skeleton unearthed from the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria.

Collini, however, did not conclude that the specimen was a flying animal.

It was not until 1817 that a second specimen of Pterodactylus came to light, again from Solnhofen.

This tiny specimen was that year described by von Soemmerring as Ornithocephalus brevirostris ( for its short snout, now understood to be a juvenile character ), and provided a restoration of the skeleton, the first one published for any pterosaur.

This specimen was also covered in hair-like pycnofibres, with unusually long pycnofibres covering the back of its neck.

In 1812, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring named the same specimen Ornithocephalus antiquus.

A special case is P. longicollum, named by von Meyer in 1854, based on a large specimen with a long neck and fewer teeth.

He also named two additional species, based on size differences: Pterodactylus ingens ( the largest specimen so far ), and Pterodactlyus velox ( the smallest ).

He soon realized his mistake, and re-classified that specimen into a separate genus, which he named Nyctosaurus.

He placed P. sternbergi into the genus named by Miller, Geosternbergia, along with the Pierre Shale skull specimen which Bennett had previously considered to be a large male P. longiceps.

In 1838 a specimen was named Dasyurus laniarius by Richard Owen, but by 1877 he had relegated it to Sarcophilus.

Coelacanths (, adaptation of Modern Latin Cœlacanthus " hollow spine ", from Greek κοῖλ-ος koilos " hollow " + ἄκανθ-α akantha " spine ", referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839 ) are members of an order of fish that includes the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii ( lobe-finned fish and tetrapods ).

Eucalyptus regnans, the Australian Mountain Ash, is the tallest of all flowering plants ( Angiosperms ); today, the tallest measured specimen named Centurion is tall .< ref name = tallest >

Illustration of specimen YPM 1871E, the horn cores that were erroneously attributed to Bison alticornis, the first named specimen of Triceratops

The first named specimen now attributed to Triceratops is a pair of brow horns attached to a skull roof, found near Denver, Colorado in the spring of 1887.

This specimen was sent to Othniel Charles Marsh, who believed that the formation from which it came dated from the Pliocene, and that the bones belonged to a particularly large and unusual bison, which he named Bison alticornis.

An earlier specimen, also recovered from the Lance Formation, was named Agathaumas sylvestris by Edward Drinker Cope in 1872.

Within the first decades after Triceratops was described, various skulls were collected, which varied to a lesser or greater degree from the original Triceratops, named T. horridus by Marsh ( from the Latin horridus ; " rough, rugose ", suggesting the roughened texture of those bones belonging to the type specimen, later identified as an aged individual ).

The species was named by ornithologist John Latham on a specimen from the Sydney, Australia area, which was referred to as New Holland at the time.

In 1742, on the basis of a specimen received from La Condamine, Linnaeus named the tree Quinquina condaminiae and established a new genus, which he termed Cinchona quinquina condaminiae.

A 3. 2 million year-old, 40 % complete fossil skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis specimen discovered in 1974 was named " Lucy " because the Beatles ' song was being played loudly and repeatedly on a tape recorder in the camp.

The tallest measured living specimen, named Centurion, stands 101 metres tall in Tasmania.

Seddon created the Zoo from this single specimen and the lion was later named King Dick in the Prime Minister's honour.

Although named by Marsh in 1887 ( including the holotype specimen ), the disarticulated bones were actually collected in 1879 by Edward Ashley at Como Bluff, Wyoming.

One of the earliest skulls recovered by archaeologists is a specimen named Luzia.

It was initially named P. brehmii, but the type specimen of that taxon is not an Iberian Chiffchaff.

The world's most commercially exploited banana, the Cavendish was named in honour of William Cavendish, who acquired an early specimen, which he raised in his glasshouse.

Several species of Megalonyx have been named ; in fact it has been stated that " nearly every good specimen has been described as a different species ".