>   I hope this will clarify my initial email on me purchasing and
> collection Holotypes. Hard to come by, as its the specimen used in the
> " Discription " of a new species. Usually donated to museums, but in
> the cases that I came across, kept and over time sold.
>
>   Also I would like to contact any collectors who collect  " Holotypes
> " and also a first in  " Form Types " Easier for " Form Types " as I
> uaually take the seller word for it or if he has a web site and it is
> shown.


All of the specimens I have collected which are now holotypes or paratypes
are housed in formal institutions. I would never consider
selling/swapping/donating such specimens to a private collector, unless he
has a recognized repository of holotypes (and yes, I do miss my specimens,
but that's just the way it is). I do not know of any such individual.

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