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[Taxacom] New genus name in title

Stephen Thorpe stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
Thu Jan 25 15:43:10 CST 2018 

It is extremely unlikely (under the current Code) that enough information would be put in an abstract to make a name available from the abstract, and I'm not sure that abstracting services publish abstracts before the article is published? At any rate, the waters of publication dates are already well muddied in the brave new world of electronic publication, for quite different reasons (I've seen some pretty odd things happen on ZooBank, relating to preregistration!)

Stephen

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On Fri, 26/1/18, Wolfgang Wuster <w.wuster at bangor.ac.uk> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New genus name in title
 To: "Peter Uetz" <peter at uetz.us>, "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Friday, 26 January, 2018, 10:35 AM
 
 From dim memory, there were
 concerns, at least in the past, about the use of names in
 titles and abstracts resulting in them being published by
 abstracting services before the publication of the
 "official", intentional description, muddying the
 waters as to publication date etc.
 
 
 These concerns may predate the
 4th edition (which contains additional safeguards against
 inadvertent publication of a name) - not sure. Perhaps
 someone else can advise?
 
 
 Cheers,
 
 
 Wolfgang
 
 
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 on behalf of Peter Uetz <peter at uetz.us>
 Sent: 25 January 2018 21:16
 To:
 taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New genus name in
 title
 
 
 After having looked at 10,000 descriptions of
 reptiles (literally!) I find it rather annoying that a lot
 of authors no not mention the name of the new species (or
 genus), neither in the title nor the abstract of their
 papers. How do we know what they are talking about if they
 don’t say it?
 
 Journal
 editors and reviewers should be a bit stricter with this
 kind of stuff and make it mandatory that new names are
 actually mentioned in the title or at least the abstract.
 
 http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/viewFile/zootaxa.4375.2.5/13578
 
 
 
 >
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > Date: Wed, 24 Jan
 2018 14:37:01 -0500
 > From: John Grehan
 <calabar.john at gmail.com>
 > To: taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 > Subject: [Taxacom] New genus name in
 title
 >
 > This is a
 bit of an ignorant question, but did not find an answer in
 the
 > code of zoological nomenclature
 (not to say that it is not there, just that
 > I have not seen it). I would be interested
 to know what the code says about
 > a new
 genus being mentioned in the title of a paper before it is
 actually
 > described and diagnosed within
 the paper. Is it permissible by the code?
 >
 > Many thanks,
 >
 > John Grehan
 
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