[Taxacom] New lizard species

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Jason Mate wrote:
> Considering how much e-ink has been poured in the last few days maybe it it would have been more constructive to send a nicely worded letter to the journal and the authors suggesting that they publish an addendum in the next issue that is more code compliant. And in addition to this a proposal to the ICZN to get on with the times and consider that many descriptions may not be morphologically based so less ambiguity would be grand. Just a thought.
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* or somebody could borrow the specimens, assess the characters usually 
used in this genus, along with standard morphometrics, and do some 
discriminant analysis to see how the putative species do or don't differ 
morphologically.

fred (just back from the field & astonished by the length of this tread).
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