[Taxacom] GENERAL CALL TO BATTLE

Wed Feb 10 11:56:58 CST 2021

 Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschriftand and ZooKeys. This lack of logic is
restricted to Pensoft journals.
I wonder who could profit the most from a pipeline like this, overriding
all need to diagnose the new taxa from the previous taxa:
We have all the elements to streamline an output of thousands of new names
per month: 1) Environmental samples. 2) Metabarcoding. 3) Machines
assembling the data as data papers and assigning names as arbitrary
combinations of letters. 4) Machines being the name authors, so that there
is no one to blame. 5) Compact, inexpensive storage of type specimens, now
in Eppendorfs (molecules are "parts of animals"). It is a Code-compliant
and technologically possible scenario.
Well, definitely for-profit publishers have the most to win from a steady
input of hundreds and even thousands of pages per month. I don't think that
stopping illogical novelty claims is among their interests.
Cheers,
Carlos

Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz
Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland
Myriatrix <http://myriatrix.myspecies.info/>
ResearchGate profile
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Martinez-Munoz>
Myriapod Morphology and Evolution
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/205802113162102/>

El mié, 10 feb 2021 a las 19:51, John Grehan (<calabar.john at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Carlos - I sympathise with your points, but as long as journals and
> reviewers accept overriding those requirements there is nothing to stop
> publication. However, that does not preclude publishing critiques that can
> alert reviewers and editors and journals of relevant issues. If the names
> are not code compliant I guess I am surprised that journals such as Zookeys
> and Systematic Entomology decided not to conform any longer.
>
> Cheers, John Grehan
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:44 PM Carlos Alberto Martínez Muñoz <
> biotemail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear John,
>> Thank you for your valuable opinion. Part of the problem here is that the
>> proposed names are being considered valid under the ZooCode. I have no
>> problem with molecular species getting binomial names, just NOT under the
>> ZooCode when they fail to be diagnosed from previous species. Molecular
>> geneticists are most welcome to use binomial names, but those shall not be
>> considered Code-compliant. The honor of proposing the final name shall be
>> for those who actually connect the sequences to the existing corpus of 250+
>> years of morphological knowledge, something that Meierotto et al. (2019)
>> did not achieve. For example, they just differentiated their 15 new
>> molecular Zelomorpha species from one out of 52 previous morphological
>> species. Therefore, claims of priority such as "Zelomorpha angelsolisi
>> Meierotto, sp. nov." would have not been considered publishable by someone
>> applying kindergarten-level logic. This failed to happen and they were
>> published. Despite the previous outcry and even a reply paper, this
>> community and the Commission failed to stop them. Therefore, the only thing
>> left is to stand together and fight back on our own. The Commission
>> promised decades ago that the ZooCode would not fall as long as we defended
>> it. We still defend it!
>> Kind regards,
>> Carlos
>>
>> Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz
>> Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit
>> FI-20014 University of Turku
>> Finland
>> Myriatrix <http://myriatrix.myspecies.info/>
>> ResearchGate profile
>> <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Martinez-Munoz>
>> Myriapod Morphology and Evolution
>> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/205802113162102/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> El mié, 10 feb 2021 a las 19:28, John Grehan (<calabar.john at gmail.com>)
>> escribió:
>>
>>> My understanding that the code is just an informal agreement, not an
>>> imposed law. Taxonomists are at liberty to follow it or not. Same for
>>> journals. At least some journals require code conformity, but others
>>> apparently do not. I have no problem in principle with the idea of
>>> published objections being made to procedures used in the papers cited, but
>>> there is no threat of 'overthrow' of the code in the sense of imposing an
>>> alternative set of conditions. If some want to publish that bypass some
>>> (all?) of the current code then there is nothing to stop that unless
>>> journals object. At least that is my impression.
>>>
>>> John Grehan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:06 PM Carlos Alberto Martínez Muñoz via
>>> Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  ***GENERAL CALL TO BATTLE***
>>>> Calling all Zoological Taxonomists to Battle!
>>>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>>>> We are going to need as much help as possible to fight the attempts of
>>>> Michael Sharkey, Daniel Janzen, Paul Herbert, and others to override the
>>>> ZooCode and to overwrite 250+ years of Zoological Taxonomy.
>>>> If you are willing to contribute your arguments and expertise to a
>>>> response
>>>> paper, please contact me.
>>>> Those of you who might not be aware of this serious issue, please check:
>>>> 1) Meierotto et al. (2019): A revolutionary protocol to describe
>>>> understudied hyperdiverse taxa and overcome the taxonomic impediment.
>>>> Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 66 (2): 119-145.
>>>> https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.66.34683
>>>> 2) Sharkey et al. (2021): Minimalist revision and description of 403 new
>>>> species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps,
>>>> including host records for 219 species. ZooKeys, 1013: 1-665.
>>>> https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1013.55600
>>>> See also a reply to Meierotto et al. (2019):
>>>> 3) Zamani et al. (2021): The omission of critical data in the pursuit of
>>>> ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species.
>>>> Systematic Entomology, 46: 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12444
>>>> We need as much help as possible! Please, share widely and invite
>>>> others to
>>>> contribute! Let this be the hour when we draw swords together!
>>>>
>>>> Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz
>>>> Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit
>>>> FI-20014 University of Turku
>>>> Finland
>>>> Myriatrix <http://myriatrix.myspecies.info/>
>>>> ResearchGate profile
>>>> <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Martinez-Munoz>
>>>> Myriapod Morphology and Evolution
>>>> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/205802113162102/>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Taxacom Mailing List
>>>>
>>>> Send Taxacom mailing list submissions to: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>>>> For list information; to subscribe or unsubscribe, visit:
>>>> http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
>>>> You can reach the person managing the list at:
>>>> taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>>>> The Taxacom email archive back to 1992 can be searched at:
>>>> http://taxacom.markmail.org
>>>>
>>>> Nurturing nuance while assaulting ambiguity for about 34 years,
>>>> 1987-2021.
>>>>
>>>