[Taxacom] Mea culpa

[Thomas Pape]

Lyubo: Simplest solution may be to provide an emendation. If done by the
authors of the name in the same volume, i.e., in the Biodiversity Data
Journal vol. 1, then the emendation is justified as specified by the
Code:

32.5.1.1. The correction of a spelling of a name in ... a journal ... in
one of the parts of the same volume ... is to be accepted as clear
evidence of an inadvertent error.

The name will then have the corrected spelling as its correct original
spelling and it will have authorship and date from the original work.

/Thomas Pape


-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Lyubomir Penev
Sent: 30. oktober 2013 08:09
To: Taxa com
Subject: [Taxacom] Mea culpa

I wish we had named it "cavernicola". As I a former taxonomist I am
aware about the "-cola" rule. We simply forgot about it being
over-strained with other issues in this project. Anyway, mea maxima
culpa!

There is a positive side, though. This visible case shows that some
clauses of the Code should be re-written so that to be more explicit in
telling what to do - or what not to do - in such cases.

But OK, why we did all this effort?

There are many new species described with SEM images, DNA barcoding (and
other genes sequencing), there are some scanned with micro-CT, etc. What
is the difference in this case?

(1) This is definitely the first eukaryotic species described with a
fully sequenced transcriptome and this is definitely the first
'holistic" species description that uses such a range of available
methods, both conventional and novel, to describe a taxon.

(2) The transcriptome data itself will become a part of the large scale
transcriptome sequencing projects of
BGI<http://www.genomics.cn/en/navigation/show_navigation?nid=4223>.
Not far from now, the accumulation of such data may yield rather
different views on the organismic evolution. So, our poor centipede
joined the big genomic data world from the time of its discovery.

(3) Handling data in different repositories and also putting all these
together in open access (of course!) into one repository (GigaDB) so
that to be properly described  and re-used in the future by anyone who
is interested, was a challenge and represents itself an important 'big'
data management pilot for taxonomy.

(4) The paper discusses the concept of the 'cybertype', published
earlier<http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.263.4261>this year. Micro-CT
scans ensure that morphological and anatomical characters can be
examined in their natural position without damage to the original type
specimen and without the need loan the specimen or visit a museum.

(5) The effort was huge, the costs are there, but the project is not
that expensive as one might think. It is surely cheaper if compared to
the costs of an expedition to a tropical country to collect new species
that will
(probably) be never described.

(6) We paid tribute also to the predecessors. All species in the
identification key  are linked to their original marked up descriptions
stored in the Plazi Treatment Repository.

Such projects will put taxonomy at the place that it has historically
but not politically gained over the centuries.

Now enjoy the
video<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqPuwKG8hE4&feature=player_embedded
>
.

Cheers,
Lyubomir



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