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Baltimartyria

 * ... that the holotype (pictured) for the second species of Baltimartyria, an extinct moth, sat on the author's desk for a number of years?
 * Reviewed: Hylarana aurantiaca

Created/expanded by Kevmin (talk), Ruigeroeland (talk). Nominated by Kevmin (talk) at 00:50, 1 October 2011 (UTC)


 * The hook would be better if the mention of author can be changed to something clearer. Suraj  T  04:18, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what it can be changed to as author and authority are the correct terms for the researcher that first describes a taxon. -- Kev min  § 15:26, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I think many or most readers will wonder what a novelist has to do with an extinct moth, so a different way of phrasing the hook would be good. In addition, I think most people's reaction to the fact that it sat on someone's desk for a few years would be "so what?" -- the hook needs to specifiy something like: it sat on the author's desk for a number of years before he published a description of it to make any sense. BabelStone (talk) 00:21, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * alt1 "... that the only fossil of the extinct moth Baltimartyria rasnitsyni (pictured) sat on a paleoentomologists desk for a number of years before being described in 2011?