"This year Harvey has become one of the few people on the planet to have described more than 1,000 new species, many of them arachnids like spiders, pseudoscorpions and scorpions, and other invertebrates such as millipedes and velvet worms. When Harvey spoke to the Guardian earlier this week, the tally of new species he had described in scientific journals stood at 1,015."
"His 1,000th species was reached in October when he described, with colleagues, 24 new wishbone spiders in the journal Invertebrate Systematics. Harvey spent much of his career as the curator of arachnids and myriapods (things such as centipedes and millipedes) at the Western Australian Museum in Perth, but his fieldwork has taken him around the world. He remembers his very first new species the pseudoscorpion Geogarypus rhantus, which he described from a specimen in the Queensland Museum in 1981."
Mark Harvey has described over 1,000 new species, including arachnids such as spiders, pseudoscorpions and scorpions, as well as millipedes and velvet worms. The first specimen collected was a pseudoscorpion found under a rock in western Victoria on 16 August 1977 and preserved in ethanol. By October, the 1,000th species milestone was reached with the description of 24 new wishbone spiders in Invertebrate Systematics. Two additional Enigmachernes pseudoscorpions attached to bat fur were published in the Australian Journal of Zoology, bringing the tally above 1,015. Harvey served as curator of arachnids and myriapods at the Western Australian Museum and has conducted fieldwork worldwide. His first described species was Geogarypus rhantus (1981).
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