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Issue: Vol. 2 No. 2: In progress
Type: Proposal
Published: 2026-02-26
DOI: 10.11646/bpn.2.2.1
Page range: 9-10
Abstract views: 104
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Proposed Modification of the ICPN (PhyloCode) to Clarify an Issue Concerning the Authorship of Some Preexisting Names

Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
Proposal PhyloCode Authorship Preexisting names

Abstract

While consulting with Daniel Madzia (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences) about the authorship of a preexisting name for a clade of plesiosaurians, we became aware of an inconsistency concerning the attribution of authorship in the International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (Cantino and de Queiroz 2020)...

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