[Taxacom] ZooBank reality check

[Stephen Gaimari]

To address just this small part of your message, both Neave (Nomenclator Zoologicus) and Sherborne (Index Animalium) are available online, respectively at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ and http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/taxonomicnames/, thanks to the uBio project started at Woods Hole and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (and all those organizations that supported and cooperated on the projects!).
Cheers,
Steve

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Dr. Stephen D. Gaimari
Program Supervisor (Entomology) &
Co-Curator, California State Collection of Arthropods

Plant Pest Diagnostics Lab
California Department of Food and Agriculture
3294 Meadowview Road
Sacramento, CA 95832-1448, USA

916-262-1131 (tel.)
916-262-1190 (fax)
sgaimari at cdfa.ca.gov
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/ppd/Gaimari.htm 
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>>> "Bob Mesibov" mesibov at southcom.com.au> 09/06/06 02:46PM >>

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The original "prospectus" for ZooBank argued that we needed a name registry 
for _current_ taxonomic effort. We also (in zoology) need an online Neave, 
simply so that we can try to avoid homonymy.

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