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Issue: Vol. 2198 No. 1: 14 Aug. 2009
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2009-08-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2198.1.7
Page range: 67–68
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 1

A few remarks on the proposed amendment of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication

Rua Mário Damiani Panatta 680, Cinquentenario, 95013–290, Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil
32 USM 305, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75 005, Paris, France
General Nomenclature

Abstract

The purpose of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (hereafter ‘the Code’) is to promote nomenclatural stability. If the Rules are changed every tenth year or so, Zoological Nomenclature will have to adapt each time to the new rules, which will be a source of instability. Another thing will be that the taxonomists will have to consider each time under which edition of the Code nomenclatural acts will have been done, which will unnecessarily complicate his work, and will even be a cause of mistakes. We do not think that a new Code is necessary, for the moment at least.

References

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    International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp.

    International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (2008) Proposed amendment of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Zootaxa, 1908, 57–67.

    Zander, R.H. (2004) Report of the Special Committee on Electronic Publishing with two proposals to amend the Code. Taxon, 53, 592–594.