[Taxacom] A lost world in Wallacea

[Geoff Read]

Dear all,

Has anyone examined if the taxonomy in the 'Science' new Indonesian birds
article, with respect to only being in the author supplement, is code
complaint?  This practice is highly unsatisfactory in my opinion, & as
usually badly formatted it is awful to read & use, but it must be that
there is no firepower under the code to prevent it, since journals
repeatedly do it. Yes?  No?

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6474/167

Frank Krell once wrote an article in BZN in which he firmly stated
"Electronic supplements are to be considered unavailable for the purposes
of zoological nomenclature."  Is this incorrect? Surely there are
qualifications needed for that statement?

If high-profile e-journals want to keep dirty boring taxonomy from
contaminating the purity of the sparkling article text they could put it
in an appendix that was in the same pdf, i.e. in the article in a separate
last section. It would be fully code complaint. If the journal is also
print then the taxonomy could be left out of the print version. Why the
downgrading to separate pdfs in the e-version?

Geoff

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Geoffrey B. Read, Ph.D.
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
gread at actrix.gen.nz