Zoological Nomenclature

Opinions Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.

The use of the prefix Pan- and other problems in zoological family-series nomenclature.

Zoological nomenclature is the obligate medium by which we communicate taxonomic information, and a series of precise nomenclatural rules are designed to minimize confusion and ambiguity. The longest used, internationally applicable system of nomenclature is “Linnaean Nomenclature” (LN) (Polaszek & Wilson 2005), which has provided a stable platform capable of simultaneously designating discrete...

Zoological Nomenclature and Electronic Publication-a reply to Dubois et al. (2013).

A group of 19 authors (Dubois et al. 2013) recently raised concerns about the latest Amendment to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 2012a,b,c), that allows new names and other nomenclatural acts to gain legislative acceptance (become “available”) from publications issued and distributed electronically. Two editorials by publishers have already responded to some of the conc...

Electronic publication in zoological nomenclature and taxonomy: problems, responses and solutions.

In September 2012, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 2012) published an amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999) to allow electronic publication in zoological nomenclature and taxonomy (see also Zhang 2012). Late last year, a paper in Zootaxa (Dubois et al. 2013) reviewed some of the problems related t...

Zoological vs . botanical nomenclature : a forgotten ‘ BioCode ’ experiment from the times of the Strickland Code *

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