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Issue: Vol. 24 No. 1: 8 November 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-11-08
DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.24.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 704
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Optical discs in zoological nomenclature: problems and proposed solution

Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, Karyavattom, Thiruvananthapuram 695 581, Kerala, India
Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA.
Museu de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade do Porto, Praça de Gomes Teixeira, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal
Department of Terrestrial Invertebrates, The National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa; Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa
División Entomología, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, CONICET, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
Association RACINE, 5 allée des Cygnes, 35750 Saint Maugan, France
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Route de Malagnou 1, 1208 Genève, Switzerland
Écologie et Santé des Écosystèmes, ESE – UMR 0985 – INRAE, Agrocampus Ouest, 65 rue de Saint-Brieuc, 35042 Rennes, France
Biosecurity Surveillance & Incursion Investigation Plant Health Team, Ministry for Primary Industries, Christchurch, New Zealand
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
Universität Greifswald, Allgemeine & Systematische Zoologie, Greifswald, Germany
FlyEvidence, Conway House, 27 Stoke Gabriel Road, Galmpton, TQ5 0NQ, England, United Kingdom
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature; retired head of the invertebrate collection (except insects), Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian Museum, J.-W.-Klein-Str. 73, 4040 Linz, Austria
Code publication promulgation optical discs compact discs DVDs nomenclatural availability technology dependence technological obsolescence facsimile

Abstract

According to the Code currently in force, taxonomic works presenting nomenclatural novelties published on optical discs may be nomenclaturally available only if published between 1985 and 2013, and respecting some conditions allowing their nomenclatural promulgation. These works will remain accessible to readers only as long as the technologies allowing to read such discs are available to all, but will become inaccessible when these technologies become obsolete. In order to overcome this technology dependence, the Linz Zoocode Committee has decided to publish facsimiles of these works, both on paper and online. For this to be possible, a list of these works needs to be built. We are therefore sending an appeal to the international community to provide information on all taxonomic works including nomenclatural novelties published so far on optical discs, whether available or not under the current Code.

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