Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 101. (Budapest 2009)

Pálfy, J.: Review of invertebrate and vertebrate paleontological types in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

Review ofpaleonotogical types in the HNHM 17 A comparison of the new HNHM type catalogue (PÁLFY et al. 2008) with that of BODA ( 1964) is summarized in Table 1. Less than half of the 1181 taxa listed in the new catalogue, only 539 appear also in BODA ( 1964). There is a net growth of 397 taxa that were introduced after 1960. An additional 174 taxa, erected before 1,960, are from type localities outside present-day Hungary, therefore they fell outside the scope of the BODA catalogue. Besides, there are 71 taxa that appear to have been omitted through oversight. Of those previously listed without known repository, types of 129 species are now found in the HNHM collection, whereas 117 remain missing or known to have been lost. Eighty-three species or subspecies have types listed from other collections that are now deposited in the HNHM, mostly as a result of post1956 transfers. Eleven taxa had types correctly reported from the HNHM in BODA ( 1964) that have since become missing. For a large number of species, the status of their type specimens (i.e. holo-, syn-, lecto- or neotypes as primary types and para- or paralectotypes as secondary types) have been updated. Clearly, much new and updated information is now available. There are only 277 species with complete agreement between the information content of the two type catalogues. Table 1. Taxa with types in the HNHM collection: Comparison of catalogues of PÁLFY et al. (2008) vs. BODA (1964) According to BODA (1964) According to PÁLFY et al. (2008) Invert.

1 Vert.

2 I+V

3 Total Not listed in Outside the Boda 1964 scope Outside Hungary before 1960 108 66 174 Described after 1960 From Hungary 263 62 325 Outside Hungary 71 1 72 571 By omission 62 9 71 71 Listed in As repository Boda

1964 unknown Exists at HNHM Status of type: same 48 10 58 Status of type: different 64 7 71 Missing but orignally at HNHM Status of type: same Status of type: different 82 26 8 1 90 27 As at HNHM Exists at HNHM Status of type: same 169 18 187 Status of type: different 8 4 12 Missing but orignally at HNHM Status of type: same 7 4 11 Status of type: different 0 0 0 As elsewhere Exists at HNHM Status of type: same 32 1 33 Status of type: different 46 4 50 539 986 195 1181 1181 ' Invertebrates 2 Vertebrates 3 Invertebrates and vertebrates together Grey-shaded highlight indicates items with complete agreement in both catalogues J Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009