INVESTIGADORES
BALDO Juan Diego
artículos
Título:
Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences
Autor/es:
CERÍACO LUIS; GUTIÉRREZ ELIÉCER; DUBOIS ALAIN ; VARIOS ET AL.; BALDO DIEGO; VARIOS ET AL.
Revista:
ZOOTAXA
Editorial:
MAGNOLIA PRESS
Referencias:
Lugar: Auckland; Año: 2016 vol. 4196 p. 435 - 445
ISSN:
1175-5326
Resumen:
The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited incollections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussedin 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 supportedby 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, thefollowing rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this textis published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-basedresearchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016.