Wolfgang Böhme
Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences
Böhme, Wolfgang; Bogdanowicz, Wieslaw; Bockmann, Flávio A.; Boano, Giovanni; Blick, Theo; Birindelli, José; Biondo, Cibele; Bharti, Daizy; Berning, Björn; Bentlage, Bastian; Bennett, Daniel J.; Benine, Ricardo C.; Bauer, Franziska; Bauer, Aaron M.; Bates, Michael F.; Bastos-Silveira, Cristiane; Bärmann, Eva V.; Barber-James, Helen Margaret; Baldo, Diego; Bagley, Justin C.; Azevedo, Celso; Astúa, Diego; Artois, Tom J.; Arthofer, Wolfgang; Arroyave, Jairo; Arnaud, Henrard; Araujo, Paula Beatriz; Aquino, Pedro P.U.; Andreone, Franco; De Andrade, Marco Brandalise; Andrade, Marcelo C.; Ananjeva, Natalia; Do Amaral, Fabio Raposo; Alves, Maria Judite; Aleixo, Alexandre; Ahrens, Dirk; Aguiar, Jonas José Mendes; Aguiar, Antonio J.C.; Agosti, Donat; Agatha, Sabine; Agarwal, Ishan; Aescht, Erna; Adriano, Edson A.; Adler, Kraig; Alqarni, Abdulaziz S.; Abdala, Cristian Simón; Gutiérrez, Eliécer E.; Ceríaco, Luis M.P.; Ceriaco, Luis M. P.; Gutierrez, Eliecer E.; Dubois, Alain
Authors
Wieslaw Bogdanowicz
Flávio A. Bockmann
Giovanni Boano
Theo Blick
José Birindelli
Cibele Biondo
Daizy Bharti
Björn Berning
Bastian Bentlage
Daniel J. Bennett
Ricardo C. Benine
Franziska Bauer
Aaron M. Bauer
Michael F. Bates
Cristiane Bastos-Silveira
Eva V. Bärmann
Helen Margaret Barber-James
Diego Baldo
Justin C. Bagley
Celso Azevedo
Diego Astúa
Tom J. Artois
Wolfgang Arthofer
Jairo Arroyave
Henrard Arnaud
Paula Beatriz Araujo
Pedro P.U. Aquino
Franco Andreone
Marco Brandalise De Andrade
Marcelo C. Andrade
Natalia Ananjeva
Fabio Raposo Do Amaral
Maria Judite Alves
Alexandre Aleixo
Dirk Ahrens
Jonas José Mendes Aguiar
Antonio J.C. Aguiar
Donat Agosti
Sabine Agatha
Ishan Agarwal
Erna Aescht
Edson A. Adriano
Kraig Adler
Abdulaziz S. Alqarni
Cristian Simón Abdala
Eliécer E. Gutiérrez
Luis M.P. Ceríaco
Luis M. P. Ceriaco
Eliecer E. Gutierrez
Alain Dubois
Contributors
Katharina Wollenberg Valero
Other
Abstract
The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016.
Citation
Böhme, W., Bogdanowicz, W., Bockmann, F. A., Boano, G., Blick, T., Birindelli, J., Biondo, C., Bharti, D., Berning, B., Bentlage, B., Bennett, D. J., Benine, R. C., Bauer, F., Bauer, A. M., Bates, M. F., Bastos-Silveira, C., Bärmann, E. V., Barber-James, H. M., Baldo, D., Bagley, J. C., …Dubois, A. (2016). Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa, 4196(3), 435-445. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9
Journal Article Type | Letter |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 4, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 23, 2016 |
Publication Date | Nov 23, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Sep 12, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 13, 2018 |
Journal | Zootaxa |
Print ISSN | 1175-5334 |
Electronic ISSN | 1175-5334 |
Publisher | Magnolia Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 4196 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 435-445 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9 |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1039807 |
Publisher URL | https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4196.3.9/24874 |
Contract Date | Sep 12, 2018 |
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