Bionomina

A welcome plea for taxonomy

MATHIAS JASCHHOF — 2025-09-30

This book of 261 pages was published on 27 June 2025, only one year after a symposium held at the Systematics Association biennial meeting on the University of Reading campus, England, where nine of the 14 book chapters were performed as oral presentations. The scientific program of the Reading Meeting included three symposia: besides “State and theory of New Taxonomy”, from which the book under review emerged, “New perspectives on the Tree of Life”, and “New gatekeepers of taxonomy: acceleration of taxonomy and influence of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence”, with the two first-mentioned symposia held simultaneously.

Notes on the nomenclature of spinorays (Chondrichthyes, Batomorphii, Apolithabatiformes)

TYLER GREENFIELD — 2025-09-30

Three nomenclatural problems with the spinorays (Apolithabatiformes) are addressed here. The priority of the family name Asterodermidae Bonaparte, 1850 over Spathobatidae Dames, 1888 is demonstrated. The authorships of the generic names Asterodermus Agassiz, 1836, Spathobatis Thiollière, 1848 and Belemnobatis Thiollière, 1852 are clarified. The spellings of the specific names S. bugesiacus Thiollière, 1848, S. morinicus Sauvage, 1873 and S. rugosus Underwood et al., 1999 are emended to S. bugesiaca, S. morinica and S. rugosa, respectively.

The Linz Zoocode project. Seventh report of activities (2025). Comments on the “significant challenges” for zoological nomenclature listed by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Six Articles from Chapters 1, 2 and 4 of the Code

ALAIN DUBOIS — 2025-09-30

We provide comments and suggestions on the first eight “significant challenges” for zoological nomenclature listed by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in 2024. In particular, we express disagreements regarding six of them, dealing with the term parataxon and related ones, the concept of hemihomonymy, the term polynomen, the Principle of Zoological Independence, differentiation of zoological nomenclature and the pronounciation of nomina. This analysis allows to survey and discuss several basic concepts and terms of zoological nomenclature.