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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thomasdonegan" data-source="post: 3551076" data-attributes="member: 5190">ICZN declaration 45 is now published:<a href="http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.21805/bzn.v73i2.a2" target="_blank">http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.21805/bzn.v73i2.a2</a>1) The following Recommendations are added to read: a) “Recommendation 73G. Specific reasons for designation of an unpreserved specimen as the name-bearing type. An author should provide detailed reasoning why at least one preserved specimen, whether a complete individual organism or a part of such an individual, was not used as the name-bearing type for the new taxon and why the formal naming of the taxon is needed at a point in time when no preserved name-bearing type will be available.” b) “Recommendation 73H. Assertion of due diligence. When establishing a new species-group taxon without a preserved name-bearing type, steps taken by an author to capture and preserve a physical specimen of the new taxon and/or locate an existing preserved specimen in natural history collections should be recounted.” c) “Recommendation 73I. Consultation with specialists. Before the designation of an unpreserved specimen as a name-bearing type, an author should consult with specialists in the group in question.” d) “Recommendation 73J. Comprehensive iconography and measurements. When establishing a new species-group taxon without a preserved name-bearing type, the author should provide extensive documentation (e.g., multiple original high-resolution images, DNA sequences, etc. ) of potentially diagnostic characters as completely as possible.” 2) The following term is added to the Glossary under the term “specimen” to read: “specimen, preserved. A non-living specimen that is deposited in a scientific collection with the intention to keep it for further study.” I suppose this is linked to the recent controversial description in entomology, although it also paves a basis for the ICZN dealing with the pending cases on Grallaria and Strix.</blockquote>

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