[Taxacom] Two million molecular synonyms on the way

[John Grehan]

"in the opinion of the Commission the Code is not a scientific standard."

Not just the opinion of the Commission. It's also my opinion for one. The
code is just a set of nomenclatural rules made up for which the taxonomic
and publishing community in general may or may not follow.

John grehan

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 4:15 PM Carlos Alberto Martínez Muñoz via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Dear Taxacomers,
> After many, many emails, here are some final messages which I will have to
> transmit to the myriapodological community tomorrow. I will let my
> colleagues know that our Myriapoda community should:
> 1) Be prepared to take the hit of at least 20 000 new molecular synonyms
> over the next ten years.
> 2) Additionally expect the vast majority of the truly new species to be
> named at an industrial scale from molecular data only, by barcoders and not
> by our experts.
> 3) Stop worrying about comparing our new species to known species, given
> that in the opinion of the Commission such comparison is not necessary.
> 4) Forget about complying with the Code, given that we are a scientific
> community and that in the opinion of the Commission the Code is not a
> scientific standard.
>
> You may use this email as a template to announce the same to your
> communities. You just need to change the expected number of new synonyms to
> match the number of valid species your communities deal with. The
> combination of global barcoding projects such as BIOSCAN, and the
> understanding that there is no need to compare "new" molecular species with
> current morphological species, will certainly generate one new molecular
> synonym per each valid morphological species. Two million valid species?
> Two million molecular synonyms!
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> 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
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