[Taxacom] Return of the digital taxa
Stephen Thorpe
stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
Fri Sep 23 16:09:01 CDT 2016
A bit of news on this issue: the administration at LSU managed to track down Bal Gautam (second on list here: http://easletters.com/editorial-team.html), who denies all knowledge of the journal or anyone connected with it (including Pushkin). If true, then we have a bogus journal claiming real people (with real institutional affiliations) as editorial board members, but without their knowledge (=identity theft?)
Stephen
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On Fri, 23/9/16, Laurent Raty <l.raty at skynet.be> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Return of the digital taxa
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Received: Friday, 23 September, 2016, 10:28 AM
Yes, I got caught in a
confusion between the two papers as well. (As you
did initially too, Stephen, but for some reason
that I don't understand,
your emails to
the group stopped to reach me some time ago; I can only
see them in the archive.) So to be clear:
- The first paper (Anthrenus kamiluhi,
http://easletters.com/volume3-issue1-2016/EASL-2016-3-1-1-3.pdf
,
claimed to be a "nomen
nudum" by Háva, Herrmann & Kadej) is registered
in ZooBank (and is thus presumably
published).
- The second one (Thamaglossa
zhantievi,
http://easletters.com/volume3-issue4-2016/EASL-2016-3-4-12-14.pdf
) is
not (and is IMHO unpublished).
The ISSN claimed on ZooBank
(2348-2864) is that of the online version.
Here: http://easletters.com/malpractice-policy.html
the journal is said
to be "an
*electronic* peer reviewed international journal".
ELibrary.ru
- http://elibrary.ru/title_about.asp?id=56427
- makes 2348-2864 the ISSN
of the
online (онлайновой) version, and gives no ISSN of
any printed
(печатной) version.
SV Pushkin appears on the
website of his university -
http://www.ncfu.ru/spisok-sotrudnikov/1302-pushkin-sergey-viktorovich.html
- so the affiliation presumably did
exist at some point at least.
Whether the
university will answer an outsider about this type of issue,
is probably a different matter, though.
(But I doubt that a Russian
zoologist can get this type of publicity:
https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/puspdf18.htm
...on the website of the Zoological Institute
of the Russian Academy of
Science at
St-Petersburg, and keep things quiet indefinitely...)
Laurent -
On 09/22/2016 11:32 PM,
Stephen Thorpe wrote:
> I note that
someone using the name "Sergey Viktorovich
Pushkin" has
been active on ZooBank (
http://zoobank.org/Search?search_term=Pushkin
), trying to register articles. Also, it
appears that Hava et al.
described Anthrenus
pushkini Herrmann, Kadej & Háva, 2015!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297838486_A_new_species_of_Anthrenus_Geoffroy_1762_Coleoptera_Dermestidae_from_Dagestan
> Evidently they were
collaborating at some stage. I have as yet had
> no
reply from either Hava,
nor the Russian university that Pushkin claims
affiliation with. The ZooBank record for the
journal (
http://zoobank.org/References/7C956948-1236-45B4-A62B-414B69567BDE
)
claims to have a print ISSN, so I
wouldn't be too quick to dismiss it as
e-only! It would be very easy for them to
produce a minimal print run
anyway, or to
fake it in a way that is difficult to disprove. The
journal appears to be based in India and
appears somewhat "dodgy"! One
of
the editorial board is listed as being USA based: Dr Bal K
Gautam,
Department of Entomology, Louisiana
State University, Baton Rouge, LA ,
USA. I
might check him out ...
>
> Stephen
>
>
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> On Thu, 22/9/16, Laurent Raty <l.raty at skynet.be>
wrote:
>
> Subject:
Re: [Taxacom] Return of the digital taxa
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Received: Thursday, 22 September, 2016,
9:59 PM
>
> A
"collection"
> where the
type(s) are intended to be deposited must be
> designated and its location given *IF*
the
> types are extant specimens.
> (The whole
>
purpose of this provision being to make it as easy as
> possible for a subsequent worker to
re-locate
> the type series -- and
put
> an end to
>
situations where this subsequent author had to use
"any
>
>
evidence, published or unpublished,"
> to guess where he might find the
> types.)
>
> But anyway, the first problem
> here doesn't seem to be the
depository.
> The first problem is that
the journal is
> electronic, and the
paper lacks
> a ZooBank
> registration, thus it is wholly
unpublished and *nothing* in
>
> it is nomenclaturally relevant.
>
> The description is
fake as
> well, by the way, not just
the images -- 99%
> of the text being
an evident 'remix' of
> the
description of Thaumaglossa
>
mroczkowskii by Háva & Kadej 2005.
>
> As michael noted,
it seems
> impossible to understand
such a behaviour if
> it comes from a
professional scientist, as it
> can
only be damaging for
> him. But do
we
> necessarily need to accept that it
really happened..? One
>
> possible purpose for such a
'paper'
> may be to create a
fake publication
> track
> for a 'predatory' journal, in
order to attract
> submissions.
>
> Laurent -
>
>
> On 09/22/2016 10:23 AM,
> Derek Sikes wrote:
> > Neal,
>
>
> > "The names are
> nomina nuda because the author failed to
designate a type
> > depository for
each — a common
> > mistake
unfortunately."
> >
> > Could you clarify
> this further? If a depository
designation is needed to
> > avoid
names becoming nomina nuda, then how
>
is it possible to name a species
> >
based
> only on a photo? (As it seems
it is). If the type is running
>
around
> > free, it can't have
a
> depository. I'd appreciate
knowing where in the code
> > this
is spelled out. Thanks! (I'm
>
teaching systematics now and we've
> >
> covered
these descriptions based on photographed but
> uncollected types...)
> >
> >
-Derek
> >
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Neal
> Evenhuis <neale at bishopmuseum.org>
> > wrote:
>
>
> >> Actually …
> >>
> >>
This has
> nothing to do with
publishing based on a photograph only.
> A
> >>
holotype is clearly listed as
>
examined. The names are nomina nuda because
> >> the author failed to designate
a type
> depository for each — a
common
> >>
> mistake unfortunately.
> >>
> >>
What is troublesome in the paper that
>
you refer to that points out that
>
>>
> these are nomina nuda, is
the conclusion for each name says
> the
opposite!
> >> That they are
> “available”.
>
>>
> >> Simply, sloppy
descriptions and sloppy
> review of the
sloppy descriptions.
> >>
> >> -Neal
>
>>
> >>
> >>
>
>>
> >> On Stardate
9/21/16, 5:40 PM,
> "Taxacom on
behalf of JF Mate"
> >>
<taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> on behalf of aphodiinaemate at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
>
>>
> >>> It seems
taxonomy fraudsters have
> cottoned on
the fact that
> >>>
> descriptions no longer require
"dead bodies". A
>
description of a new
> >>>
> Dermestidae was published in Entomology
and Applied Science
> Letters.
> >>> Fortunately the author
> was pretty lazy and it ended up being a
nomen
> >>> nudum. Reference
to original
> article and link to
article uncovering
> >>> the
dirty deed below.
> >>>
> >>>
>
Jason
> >>>
> >>> Original article:
Description of a
> new species of the
genus
> >>>
> Thaumaglossa (COLEOPTERA: Dermestidae:
Megatominae) of the
> Astrakhan
> >>> Region of Russia.
> >>> Entomology and Applied
Science
> Letters, 2016, 3, 4:
12-14.
> >>>
> >>>
>
>>> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308163532_New_
> >> Faunistic_Records_a
> >>>
>
nd_remarks_on_Dermestidae_Coleoptera_-_Part_15
> >>>
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