John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype LAURACEAE: Persea littoralis Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1928182696 #TypeSpecimenToday

Eugène Langlassé https://bionomia.net/Q109757162 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Inga langlasseana in Colombia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1321716608 #TypeSpecimenToday

Mervyn Grove Palmer https://bionomia.net/Q109763849 collected the holotype DIDELPHIDAE: Philander laniger pictus Thomas, 1913 in Colombia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1919785374 #TypeSpecimenToday

John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype RUBIACEAE: Ernodea angusta Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1927802623 #TypeSpecimenToday

Georg Wilhelm Schimper https://bionomia.net/Q72899 collected the holotype APOCYNACEAE: Tacazzea venosa Decne. in Ethiopia https://gbif.org/occurrence/439568158 #TypeSpecimenToday

Ludwig Preiss https://bionomia.net/Q6699308 collected the holotype PROTEACEAE: Hakea lehmanniana Meisn. in Australia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1929991732 #TypeSpecimenToday

Joseph Clemens https://bionomia.net/Q6282164 collected the holotype ORCHIDACEAE: Malleola transversisaccata Ames & C. Schweinfurth in Malaysia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999223983 #TypeSpecimenToday

Looks like Darrin O'Brien may soon be the next Scribe to make 1M links between collector/determiner and their specimen records served to @gbif.org. 👏 bionomia.net/0009-0004-06...

William John Burchell https://bionomia.net/Q1397207 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Lotononis pungens in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/912345494 #TypeSpecimenToday

Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén https://bionomia.net/Q5625930 collected the holotype ORTHOTRICHACEAE: Ulota rufula https://gbif.org/occurrence/1052533698 #TypeSpecimenToday

I'm going to presenting at #ASBS2025 this afternoon on a #Wikidata outreach project my colleagues and I undertook at the XX International Botanical Congress. If you want to get an early look at my slides you can see them here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AS... #WikiProject

Orator Fuller Cook https://bionomia.net/Q1548577 collected the holotype ACANTHACEAE: Ruellia metallica in Costa Rica https://gbif.org/occurrence/1318263920 #TypeSpecimenToday

John Kunkel Small https://bionomia.net/Q2590065 collected the holotype PTERIDACEAE: Pycnodoria pinetorum Small in United States https://gbif.org/occurrence/1930504382 #TypeSpecimenToday

Paul Günther Lorentz https://bionomia.net/Q76111 collected the holotype POACEAE: Panicum prionitis Nees in Argentina https://gbif.org/occurrence/1638446865 #TypeSpecimenToday

#Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good! Wikidata is always the mostly-invisible powerhouse in the background, so this is especially meaningful to me and a great recognition of the work that thousands of people put into structuring the world’s knowledge every single day.

Erik Leonard Ekman https://bionomia.net/Q541549 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Eupatorium holquinense B. L. Robinson in Cuba https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999230537 #TypeSpecimenToday

Our small research entomological collection just surpassed 40,000 databased records! Just beetles, and of course not everything ID yet but fulfilling nevertheless. ecdysis.org/collections/...

Henry Ogg Forbes https://bionomia.net/Q1349901 collected the holotype LORANTHACEAE: Tetradyas perfoliata Danser in Papua New Guinea https://gbif.org/occurrence/1055342390 #TypeSpecimenToday

Charles John Andersson https://bionomia.net/Q1731824 collected the holotype PSITTACIDAE: Poicephalus rueppellii mariettae in Namibia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1291391648 #TypeSpecimenToday

October has been full of #Symbiota adventures in South America 🌎💚. It started last week in Peru🇵🇪, where we held a digitization workshop in collaboration with UNMSM Natural History Museum and Yale Peabody Museum. Around 80 participants from all over the country attended. We had a blast! 🌿

One last stop in Bogota! Of course, I couldn't miss the opportunity to visit Colombian collections!! Thanks to Juan Pablo Botero, Ericka Vergara, and John Cesar Neita for sharing their beautiful anthribids with me!! 💚 It was also great to meet @dimitriforero.bsky.social in person! Hasta la próxima!🤗

Robert Brown https://bionomia.net/Q155764 collected the holotype CAMPEPHAGIDAE: Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield, 1827 in Australia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1291495121 #TypeSpecimenToday

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Gnaphalium pringlei A. Gray in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1998828363 #TypeSpecimenToday

Nice to see this in the Bionomia Google Scholar feed. Well done folks from RBG Victoria! rbgv-prod-cdn-bpfbb4gthrfzb4ab.a03.azurefd.net/media/rubhkv... [And, where's your Bluesky acc't?!]

Joseph Paul Gaimard https://bionomia.net/Q553809 and Jean René Constant Quoy https://bionomia.net/Q555546 collected the holotype CHIRONEMIDAE: Chironemus georgianus cuvier, 1829 in Australia https://gbif.org/occurrence/583410346 #TypeSpecimenToday

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype POACEAE: Bouteloua latifolia in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1320861825 #TypeSpecimenToday

Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme https://bionomia.net/Q429017 collected the holotype EUPHORBIACEAE: Julocroton humilis var. malmei Croizat in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999019038 #TypeSpecimenToday

Sabine von Mering @svmering.bsky.social will be talking about the creation of a Museum Knowledge Graph to open up and link the collection using #Wikidata (and the Wikiverse) and connecting this to content in BHL and data from GBIF. #LivingData2025 #DatosVivos2025 #ILoveBHL

Henry Nicholas Ridley https://bionomia.net/Q733709 collected the holotype PHYLLANTHACEAE: Antidesma montanum var. montanum https://gbif.org/occurrence/925146780 #TypeSpecimenToday

📢 Check out all the BHL presentations at #LivingData2025! On Day 2, BHL Superuser & Wikimedian extraordinaire @siobhanleachman.bsky.social will share how to extract, add, and enrich biodiversity data from BHL in #Wikidata to empower enrichment and reuse. www.livingdata2025.com/program.html... 📖 👩‍💻 🔗

Carl Skottsberg https://bionomia.net/Q942078 collected the holotype BRACHYTHECIACEAE: Rhynchostegiella fuegiana (Cardot) Broth. in Argentina https://gbif.org/occurrence/436833116 #TypeSpecimenToday

Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold https://bionomia.net/Q2460005 collected the holotype PYRENIDIACEAE: Pyrenidium actinellum Nyl. in Germany https://gbif.org/occurrence/1253518901 #TypeSpecimenToday

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Guardiola rotundifolia B. L. Robinson in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1998484300 #TypeSpecimenToday

Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme https://bionomia.net/Q429017 collected the holotype ACAROSPORACEAE: Acarospora terrigena in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1086332242 #TypeSpecimenToday

Albert Spear Hitchcock https://bionomia.net/Q2063155 collected the holotype POACEAE: Muhlenbergia eludens in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1320033072 #TypeSpecimenToday

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Tagetes triradiata Greenman in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999150947 #TypeSpecimenToday

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Otopappus alternifolius B. L. Robinson in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1999397773 #TypeSpecimenToday

Thomas Mitchell https://bionomia.net/Q2142133 collected the holotype EUPHORBIACEAE: Euphorbia in Australia https://gbif.org/occurrence/912714192 #TypeSpecimenToday

Émile-Marie Bodinier https://bionomia.net/Q3588294 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Vernonia martini Vaniot in China https://gbif.org/occurrence/1998682510 #TypeSpecimenToday

Love following @bionomia.net & today is my lucky day! I've been working on Drège for several years now - he's a super interesting commercial collector who only left scant archival traces that I've been slowly piecing together 🌿 #nathist #envhist #envhum

Johann Franz Drège https://bionomia.net/Q6215799 collected the holotype PLANTAGINACEAE: Plantago cafra Decne. in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/439202719 #TypeSpecimenToday

Ernest Edward Galpin https://bionomia.net/Q5393019 collected the holotype THYMELAEACEAE: Passerina galpinii in South Africa https://gbif.org/occurrence/912227548 #TypeSpecimenToday

Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme https://bionomia.net/Q429017 collected the holotype GRAPHIDACEAE: Graphina evirescens in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1086211603 #TypeSpecimenToday

Johann Natterer https://bionomia.net/Q78618 collected the holotype RHINOCRYPTIDAE: Pteroptochus thoracicus P.L. Sclater, 1865 in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1291428860 #TypeSpecimenToday

Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti https://bionomia.net/Q134118 collected the holotype SAXIFRAGACEAE: Saxifraga pardanthina Hand.-Mazz. in China https://gbif.org/occurrence/1831000044 #TypeSpecimenToday

Cyrus Pringle https://bionomia.net/Q3009492 collected the holotype ASTERACEAE: Zexmenia squarrosa Greenman in Mexico https://gbif.org/occurrence/1998513652 #TypeSpecimenToday

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Georg Wilhelm Schimper https://bionomia.net/Q72899 collected the holotype ACANTHACEAE: Adhatoda acuminata (Hochst.) Nees in Ethiopia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1078793038 #TypeSpecimenToday

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius https://bionomia.net/Q77131 collected the holotype PERACEAE: Pera furfuracea Müll.Arg. in Brazil https://gbif.org/occurrence/1848911400 #TypeSpecimenToday

Georg Wilhelm Schimper https://bionomia.net/Q72899 collected the holotype FABACEAE: Trifolium multinerve (Hochst.) A.Rich. in Ethiopia https://gbif.org/occurrence/1078841768 #TypeSpecimenToday