[Taxacom] quality control of taxonomic work

[Damien HINSINGER]

I think some taxonomic journal impose 30 individuals to publish measures with standard error, that is, in my humble opinion, a minimum requirement for asses the intra-specific diversity, even in a new species.
However, there is many cases where we do not have enough specimens... the ideal world vs. the real world ;-)
Damien


Le 7 mai 2012 ? 08:53, Stephen Thorpe a ?crit :

> Many taxa are described on the basis of singletons ... sometimes it is clear, sometimes it isn't (i.e, sometimes the singleton itself isn't clearly a new taxon, but sometimes it seems to be, but additional material makes it less clear) ...
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> From: Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org>
> To: TAXACOM at MAILMAN.NHM.KU.EDU 
> Sent: Monday, 7 May 2012 6:26 PM
> Subject: [Taxacom] quality control of taxonomic work
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> Is there a similar study that assess the taxononomic work we produce, such
> as how many specimen where at the base for the description of taxa? 
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> http://tinyurl.com/c5fw7n8
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> How many specimen are usually used - are expected to be used for making a
> sensible taxonomic decision?
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> Donat
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