Talk:Grimshaw's Tamarin

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I couldn't find independent confirmation of this species either, other than: Cabrera, A. and Yepes J. Historia natural ediar, mamiferos sud-americanos (vida, costumbres y descripción). Compañia Argentina de editores, Buenos Aires, 1940. Nor who Grimshaw was.However, just because the source is old and in Spanish does not make it invalid. We can leave the link out f the main tamarin article until we can get independent confirmation. But please don't redirect. Pretzelogic 18:43, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * It's not just that it's old, but that I can find no confirmation in the slightest that this taxon was ever accepted as valid. It's not listed in MSW3, nor in any of the Neotropical Primes issues I have, nor is in listed on any of the online lists. It may have been written about by Cabrera and Yepes, but that doesn't make it a species unless it is accepted by the scientific community. And usually if it isn't, then it becomes a junior synonym to another existing species. I can't find that that is true, either. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:52, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, you can redirect if you want until I have a chance to find the original reference again. Pretzelogic 18:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm getting nothing from MSW3, ION, Zoological Record, or Google. There should be a record of this species description somewhere to tell us where it should be synonomized, but I'm not finding it.  I agree with the redirect to tamarin until we can determine just what this animal is currently synonomized under.  --Aranae 22:22, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I can't say anything more than that I also found that it isn't in MSW 3 and there's nothing about it on the whole Internet. Maybe it can be found in Cabrera's (1958) Catálogo de los mamíferos de América del Sur, but I suspect it has been just forgotten since. Redirect to tamarin seems to be the best solution, indeed. Ucucha 15:10, 29 September 2006 (UTC)