Unique specimen identifiers link 10 new species of ant directly to AntWeb
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
A team of scientists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and the University of California at Davis describe ten new species of Temnothorax ants, doubling the number of species of this genus in California. What makes this discovery even more special is that each described specimen is linked to the AntWeb database by a unique identifier. Publishing this way makes it easier to harvest the data by other on-line resources and repositories.