Somewhat off topic: Most hillarious taxonomy paper of the decade (1 Viewer)

[Roy'N]

He was .....his skills.... His website......

He/His? I hate to be a grammar nazi but correct form in first person is I/my B

I think Papuan birder's description sounds accurate:
http://www.theage.com.au/national/devenomised-snakes-ruled-dangerous-20081015-5128.html
http://manningham-leader.whereilive...rk-orchards-dad-lets-snakes-bite-daughter-10/

 

[DarkFireFalcon]

In the "paper" referenced in the topic post, the author refers to the "illegal rigging of online hotel competitions" of his rivals, amongst other purported crimes.


Illegal rigging of online hotel competitions!? What in the name of all that is good and holy is that?

Maybe KyleJones can elucidate what he meant by that, since I'm sure it's a great story....

 

[MJB]

In the "paper" referenced in the topic post, the author refers to the "illegal rigging of online hotel competitions" of his rivals, amongst other purported crimes.

Illegal rigging of online hotel competitions!? What in the name of all that is good and holy is that?

Maybe KyleJones can elucidate what he meant by that, since I'm sure it's a great story....

Sounds more like Alex Jones, the king of imaginary conspiracy theories...3
MJB

 

[DMW]

I wonder if 'Kyle Jones' has 'disappeared into synonymy'?

 

[Microtus]

I wonder if 'Kyle Jones' has 'disappeared into synonymy'?

:clap:

 

[chris butterworth]

What's happened to the rest of the thread?

 

[Roy'N]

What's happened to the rest of the thread?

The thread didn't change. There is another with similar discussion http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=274245

 

[chris butterworth]

The thread didn't change. There is another with similar discussion http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=274245

|:$|

 

[Myornis]

In the "paper" referenced in the topic post, the author refers to the "illegal rigging of online hotel competitions" of his rivals, amongst other purported crimes. Illegal rigging of online hotel competitions!? What in the name of all that is good and holy is that?

Presumably this allegation noted on taxacom. See messages here if you must: link1 link2 *
*No responsibility is taken for external links or their contents.

 

[Melanie]

Only three of Hoser's snake descriptions are still valid. All his other animals are invalid. What do should think about someone who sues and accuses his collegues of theft and regards juveniles and females of certain animal species as own species. He is just a shame of the scientific commuity.

 

[jts1882]

The ICZN made a ruling on Hoser's names, as described in the Turtles checklist produced by the IUCN Turtle Specialist Group.

Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas (9th Ed.) – 2021

17:4. Names coined by Hoser: Raymond Hoser (2013, 2014a,b, and several other papers) has circumvented conventional standards of scientific analysis and peer-review in his broadly sweeping and extensive new taxonomies and nomenclatures. We regard his actions as confusing and unwarranted acts of nomenclatural disruption under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), and we do not regard the documents circulated under the name Australasian Journal of Herpetology as scientific publications nor as available publications for the purposes of nomenclature (Kaiser et al. 2013; Kaiser 2014; Rhodin et al. 2015).

In collaboration with a wide leadership group representing the global herpetological and zoological communities, we have petitioned the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to declare and treat Hoser’s works in his self-produced Australasian Journal of Herpetology as nomenclaturally unavailable (Rhodin et al. 2015), and have noted that all new names created therein are nomenclaturally unavailable pending a ruling by the Commission.

Hoser’s production has heretofore focused primarily on snakes, but recently he has proposed names for purportedly distinct new taxa of turtles, including American Macrochelys, Australasian Pelochelys, and Australian Chelodina. We consider all these names to be unavailable unless the ICZN rules them to be available.

 

[l_raty]

The ICZN made a ruling on Hoser's names

I'm not going to try to defend Hoser, but, no, the ICZN did not make such a ruling.

The ICZN, in 2021, in :

Opinion 2468 (Case 3601) – Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae) and Australasian Journal of Herpetology issues 1–24: confirmation of availability declined; Appendix A (Code of Ethics): not adopted as a formal criterion for ruling on Cases.​

Bull. Zool. Nomenclature, 78: 42-45.​

https://www.biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/68068

...opined that :

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature finds no basis under the provisions of the Code for regarding the name Spracklandus as unavailable, nor for regarding any of issues 1–24 of Australasian Journal of Herpetology as being unpublished in the sense of the Code, but the Commission has declined to use its powers to confirm what is obvious. The Commission is not empowered to take Appendix A of the Code (Code of Ethics) into account in its rulings on this or any other Case.

The opinion you quote is that of a (large, admittedly) group of herpetologists, who basically erected themselves into a tribunal, and condemned Hoser's names to unavailability even when they met the requirements of the Code.