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Magnolia Press, Zootaxa, 3(4196), p. 435

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9

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Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

Journal article published in 2016 by Cédric d’Udekem d’Acoz, Thomas van de Kamp, Luc Janssens de Bisthoven, Ignacio Jose de la Riva de la Viña, Christian de Muizon, Mario de Pinna, Vítor de Q. Piacentini, Rafael O. de Sá, Mario de Vivo, Thierry Deuve de Resbecq, Benoit Guénard, Václav Gvoždík, Célio F. B. Haddad, Jakob Hallermann, Alexandre Hassanin and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

La liste complète des auteurs est disponible sur la publication. ; The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016.