[Taxacom] Nomina nuda and genbank?

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

A much more general problem I see is that with the steadily
descreasing number of persons able to identify species correctly 
(and a continuously lower number of skilled persons who are able to 
teach others) it cannot be expected that molecular biologists 
are having correct identifications for the specimens for which they 
provide sequence data.

Edi Gittenberger did certainly not screen systematically for 
molecular papers on molluscs. This was just a random example he 
found coincidentally. Most misidentifications will remain 
undetected.

Francisco


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