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[Annelida] Fried spicy Linnaeus

Geoff Read via annelida%40net.bio.net (by Geoffrey.Read from niwa.co.nz)
Tue Mar 17 23:11:00 EST 2015


FYI

Open access, published today. The colorful opinions of this author may amuse or enrage you.

"Taxonomists know (?) that the citation of author name+year is a bibliographic tool (Ng 1994). It is not intended to demonstrate property ('ownership' of the name)
or to enhance the author's fame."

Kottelat, Maurice. 2015. Fried spicy Linnaeus-the consequences of indiscriminate citation of authors of scientific names. Zootaxa 3936(1): 147-150                             http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.10


Enjoy,

Geoff




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