marks the 250th anniversary of the official publication date of Systema Naturae (Linnaeus 1758) recognized by ICZN (1999). During the last two and a half centuries, Linnaeus (1758)' system for naming, ranking and classifying organisms has allowed us to document the pattern of life on Earth, Darwin (1850)'s theory of evolution has helped us to understand the process how this diversity of life came about, and Hennig (1966)'s phylogenetic methodology has enabled us reconstruct the tree of life. During the last two decades or so, the internet has dramatically changed the way we live and work. The rapid advances in bioinformatics have provided taxonomists unprecedented opportunities to do their research more efficiently and make their findings more accessible. Cybertaxonomy is emerging as an exciting new branch of taxonomy (Wheeler 2007). Showcased here is an exemplar paper by Pyle et al. (2008: 3–31) who described five new species of damselfish (Chromis) from deep coral reefs in the tropical western Pacific. This is the first taxonomic paper integrating many of the most recent cybertaxonomic tools with species descriptions and demonstrating the utility of international standards for biodiversity informatics. The online edition of this paper has been specially formatted with many embedded links to many resources available online via the internet to enhance access to taxonomically-relevant information: • The new species represent the first five scientific names prospectively registered in the official ZooBank registry developed by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (http://www.iczn.org/) • The descriptive data related to all specimens of the new species, as well as comparative data for other species, have been marked up with SDD (TDWG standard for descriptive data such as characters, etc.