[Annelida] Zoobank: a universal register for animal names

[Geoff Read]

An ICZN proposal for a universal register for animal names is announced.

http://www.iczn.org/new%20ZooBank.htm
http://list.afriherp.org/mailman/listinfo/zoobank-list

Polaszek, A.; Agosti, D.; et al. 2005: A universal register for animal names. 
Nature 437(7058): 477, 22 September 2005

Andrew Polaszek, Secretary of ICZN, and colleagues propose an open-access web-
register for animal names, which they believe is vital to move taxonomy into 
the twenty-first century.  

http://info.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/eU710BgCJx0Ch0mig0Ew

"Our target is to have ZooBank, and a fifth edition of the code, completed by 
2008, the 250th anniversary of Linnaeus' animal nomenclature."


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  Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.co.nz>
  http://www.annelida.net/