> Please reconsider your choice of collecting activity and immediately
> deposit any holotypes you have accumulated with an appropriate
> repository.

Yes! otherwise they are likely to be lost to science.

> If you meant to say topotypes (shells from the type locality),
> hypotypes (shells figured in books), or some other non-name bearing
> type, please clarify your statement.

Topotypes & hypotypes need not be held by institutions, of course. I
happily own several NZ epitoniids illustrated in Weil, Brown & Neville's
"The Wentletrap Book", and other specimens likely to be illustrated in a
future book as well.

Of course specimens illustrated in scientific literature, but not being
type-material, are in a gray area.

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