[Taxacom] GENERAL CALL TO BATTLE

Wed Feb 10 12:20:14 CST 2021

Dear Carlos,

I appreciate your enthusiasm and energy, but I find your wording excessively and unnecessarily divisive.

We are right now facing an alarming rate of destruction of our ecosystems, with dire consequences in terms of massive losses of species. We should welcome any honest and serious attempt at embracing new technologies to document what may soon be irrecoverably lost.

We probably all agree that species may somehow be delimited or recognized based on molecular data, and I am convinced that we all would be happy to see massive amounts of sequence data obtained from carefully prepared and meticulously documented voucher specimens.

We need an open discussion on how to align the way we name species with the strengths and shortcomings of molecular sequence data.
We need to be explicit and specific in which requirements we want for scientific names to be validly proposed. Can molecular sequence data in some form, but by themselves, be seen as "a description or definition that states in words characters that are purported to differentiate" an animal taxon? If not, what would be the minimal amount of elaboration needed to make sequence data Code-compliant? Or should molecular data not take any part in a Code-compliant "description or definition"?

We may never come to full agreement across the Taxasphere, but sharing our different views and suggestions is in my opinion a fruitful procedure. A battle is not.

/Thomas Pape

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Subject: [Taxacom] GENERAL CALL TO BATTLE

 ***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://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.3897%2Fdez.66.34683&data=04%7C01%7Ctpape%40snm.ku.dk%7Cee5633a991a7482f6def08d8cde62cfe%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C637485735767274676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=aeCRCezA5QrPbnGXNbetMjKOSnb%2Fjg5GU8yv0Xji9%2Fk%3D&reserved=0
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://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.3897%2Fzookeys.1013.55600&data=04%7C01%7Ctpape%40snm.ku.dk%7Cee5633a991a7482f6def08d8cde62cfe%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C637485735767274676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=MMqHYguA9UzpeDMnLfl9S%2Bl1GyYi38flhldM4ojPuII%3D&reserved=0
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://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1111%2Fsyen.12444&data=04%7C01%7Ctpape%40snm.ku.dk%7Cee5633a991a7482f6def08d8cde62cfe%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C637485735767274676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=JHx67qjPWUU7pXGuKWFIonf%2Bf4H1Bpk3ParCOlD4meo%3D&reserved=0
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
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