[Taxacom] Now 2 species/genera in Placozoa...

[Tony Rees]

Just for completeness, this is to note that the authors of Eitel et al.
(2018) have now published a correction that includes the relevant zoobank
LSIDs to make the names mentioned above available.

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000032

Regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia



On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 09:09, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

> I just now saw the lead author retrospectively register the article on
> ZooBank. I wonder if he understands fully that this does not directly
> address/solve the problem?
>
> Stephen
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 6/8/18, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Now 2 species/genera in Placozoa...
>  To: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
>  Cc: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>  Received: Monday, 6 August, 2018, 12:18 PM
>
>
>  On Mon, 6 Aug
>  2018 at 08:42, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
>  wrote:
>  Anyway [Big sigh!], the paper
>  appears to be published e-only without ZooBank
>  preregistration, so the new names don't exist
>  anyway!!
>
>  Stephen
>
>  Hi Stephen, that does indeed appear
>  to be the case. I have just sent an email to the lead author
>  in Germany to see if they wish to rectify the apparent
>  oversight.
>  Best
>  regards - Tony
>