Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

• Main Authors: Das, Indraneil, Ceriaco, Luis M. P., Gutierrez, Eliecer E., Dubois, Alain
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Magnolia Press 2016
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/30578/1/Photography-based%20taxonomy%20-%20Copy.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/30578/; https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4196.3.9
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 200...