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Professor of Biology @ EKU | Molecular Ecology, Freshwater Invertebrates, Natural History Collections, 3D Printing | He/Him
Mar 6, 2019 32 tweets 12 min read
THREAD: How taxonomic misidentifications/uncertainty can haunt you.

While I'm not named here, an unpublished chapter from my dissertation is the source for the confusion surrounding the 2010 record for the Ozark Pryg. Today...I'm not sure I actually found it. 1/N *record scratch* Narrator's Voice "You're probably wondering how I got here.

Summer of 2006 I conducted a survey of freshwater snails of the Ozark Plateau in Arkansas as part of my dissertation . I spent the summer living out of my Ford Ranger with my dog named Trapper...