Date: 12/08/2012 19:16:58
From: poikilotherm
ID: 186185
Subject: Flickr, useful.

http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/3220/a-charismatic-new-species-of-green-lacewing-discovered-in-malaysia-neuroptera-chrysopidae-the-confluence-of-citizen-scie

“The incidental nature of this discovery is underscored by the fact that the species was initially photographed and then released, with images subsequently posted to an online image database. It was not until the images in the database were randomly examined by the professional taxonomists that it was determined that the species was in fact new.”

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Date: 12/08/2012 19:31:02
From: roughbarked
ID: 186188
Subject: re: Flickr, useful.

poikilotherm said:


http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/3220/a-charismatic-new-species-of-green-lacewing-discovered-in-malaysia-neuroptera-chrysopidae-the-confluence-of-citizen-scie

“The incidental nature of this discovery is underscored by the fact that the species was initially photographed and then released, with images subsequently posted to an online image database. It was not until the images in the database were randomly examined by the professional taxonomists that it was determined that the species was in fact new.”

If professional taxonomists examined every photograph posted. I’m sure they’d find more.

morrie for example had a similar encounter over the occurrrence of a certain fungi.

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