Taxacom: Hoser rant (was: A compromise solution etc.)

[Peter Uetz]

Yes, that’s correct, Ray,

The Reptile Database doesn’t have most Hoser names because the herpetological community decided to ignore them.

That’s because you refuse you provide meaningful data in your species descriptions, with most of them having no illustrations, no maps, no tables, no sequences, no statistics, no phylogenies, and above all, poor descriptions (such as diagnoses based on “larger size”, "lower incidence of scale anomalies”, "more rhomboidal-shaped dorsal scales” (example for Morelia mippughae Hoser 2003, Newsletter of the Macarthur Herp. Soc. Issue 40, August 2003:4-9, which by the way, is in the Reptile Database as a synonym of Morelia spilota).

BTW, we did not DELETE Russian names, we temporarily removed a bunch of Russian papers in protest over the Russian invasion of Ukraine (we do not regret that).

Peter




> On Jul 7, 2023, at 7:15 AM, Raymond Hoser The Snakeman <viper007 at live.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Excuse me Peter Uetz, but your non ICZN list is NOT a list of all synonyms and current names.
> You recently DELETED over 1000 Russian names and papers in protest at the Ukraine war. 
> You have also DELETED over 300 Australian names from your listing as you followed Kaiser et al's attempt to synonymise most taxa and/or only use names coined by your own small cohort.
> Then there are other names you pretend do not exist for a whole host of idiotic reasons.
> So please do not lie to people who may not know better.
> Your non ICZN "the reptile database" is a best a biased and partial listing of valid, available and quite a few unavailable names, that you seek to peddle,
> All the best
> 
> Raymond Hoser