[Taxacom] New lizard species

[Bob Mesibov]

Brit-bashing? No, just tongue-in-cheek, like my satirical take on pompous editors.

But I feel strongly that your 'taxonomy in the molecular age' should be old-style taxonomy reinforced and extended with molecular results, not Leache-Fujita style *replacement* of old-style taxonomy with something completely unusable.

Making the key point a 3rd time: Leache and Fujita have contributed something to our understanding of lizard evolution, and nothing at all to lizard taxonomy. If they were so determined to name 3 new species they should have investigated those entities properly and published taxonomic results properly. What they did is not taxonomy at all, in the molecular age or at any other time.
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Dr Robert Mesibov
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Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
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