Confronting taxonomic vandalism in biology: conscientious community self-organization can preserve nomenclatural stability

W Wüster, SA Thomson, M O'shea… - Biological Journal of …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Self-published taxon descriptions, bereft of a basis of evidence, are a long-standing problem
in taxonomy. The problem derives in part from the Principle of Priority in the International …

Genome evolution and the future of phylogenomics of non-avian reptiles

DC Card, WB Jennings, SV Edwards - Animals, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary As a group of organisms, non-avian reptiles, most of which are the~
11,000 species of lizards and snakes, are an extraordinarily diverse group, displaying a …

Phylogenetic partitioning of the third-largest vertebrate genus in the world, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia; Squamata; Gekkonidae) and its relevance to taxonomy …

L Lee Grismer, PL Wood… - Vertebrate …, 2021‏ - research-repository.griffith.edu.au
The gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus is the third most speciose vertebrate genus in the world,
containing well over 300 species that collectively range from South Asia to Melanesia across …

[HTML][HTML] Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution

A Figueroa, MEY Low, KKP Lim - Zootaxa, 2023‏ - mapress.com
Given Singapore's location at the confluence of important maritime trading routes, and that it
was established as a British East India Company trading post in 1819, it is unsurprising that …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in taxonomic studies, biogeographic analysis, and revised checklist of reptiles in Indochina

NA Poyarkov, T Van Nguyen, ES Popov… - Russian Journal of …, 2023‏ - rjh.folium.ru
Abstract The Indochinese Peninsula represents one of the key global biodiversity hotspots in
Southeast Asia. The herpetofauna of Indochina (herein including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia …

[PDF][PDF] Unnecessary splitting of genus-level clades reduces taxonomic stability in amphibians

S Mahony, RG Kamei… - Vertebrate …, 2024‏ - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
Although the differentiation of clades at the species level is usually based on a justifiable
and testable conceptual framework, the demarcation of supraspecific boundaries is less …

[PDF][PDF] The updated checklist and zoogeographic division of the reptilian fauna of Yunnan Province, China

K Wang, Z Lyu, J Wang, S Qi, J Che - Biodiversity Science, 2022‏ - biodiversity-science.net
Aims: Yunnan Province has the richest biodiversity among all administrative regions in
China. Therefore, having detailed, updated checklists of different fauna and flora groups of …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina

NA Poyarkov, T Van Nguyen, P Pawangkhanant… - PeerJ, 2022‏ - peerj.com
Slug-eating snakes of the subfamily Pareinae are an insufficiently studied group of snakes
specialized in feeding on terrestrial mollusks. Currently Pareinae encompass three genera …

Naming and gaming: The illicit taxonomic practice of 'nomenclatural harvesting'and how to avoid it

W Denzer, H Kaiser - Journal of Zoology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
We coin the term'nomenclatural harvesting'to identify a distinct form of taxonomic vandalism,
in which practitioners generate taxon names for operational taxonomic units (OTUs) …

[PDF][PDF] Variation in species richness, composition and herpetological community structure across a tropical habitat gradient of Palawan Island, Philippines

CE Supsup, AA Asis, UV Carestia Jr… - …, 2020‏ - herpetozoa.pensoft.net
Information on species richness and community structure is invaluable for guiding
conservation and management of biodiversity, but is rarely available in the megadiverse …