Something very similar happened in Brazil in 2013 in the prestigious Marine Pollution - a paper about exotic and invasive species with several taxonomic errors. A group of Brazilian taxonomists ( sponges, cnidaria, ascidians, bryozoans, crustaceans, polychaete and echinoderms) wrote a strong response in the same journal:
Rocha et al. 2013. The need of more rigorous assessments of marine species introductions: A counter example from the Brazilian coast, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 67 (1–2): 241-243.
It was very elucidative!
> Em 4 de dez de 2018, à(s) 21:11, jdkudenov <jdkudenov from alaska.edu> escreveu:
>> Dear Rolando,Well said and "Bravo!"Felicidades,jerry
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy , an AT&T LTE smartphone
> -------- Original message --------From: Rolando Bastida Zavala <rolando from angel.umar.mx> Date: 12/4/18 11:17 (GMT-05:00) To: annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu Subject: Re: [Annelida] FW: Why are they doing it?
> Dear Lena,
>> Is for not believe. However, if my memory no fails, Plos-one published some years ago
> a paper about the hand and the intelligent design! And in spite of everything, they
> charge for publishing these mess.
>> Enrique Balech, a Argentinian protozoologist, said "An ecological study that rests on
> bad taxonomy is born dead: it serves little and, worse, it can generate an unfortunate
> chain of errors".
>> Sometimes, the invasion ecologists are with hurry for publish and they records species
> of other regions without critical arguments, descriptions (or diagnosis), or, at
> least, pictures. I think (remembering the words of Sergio Salazar) that the journals
> should had as review policy include at least an expert by each taxon group included in
> the manuscript. Additionally, should be mandatory that the authors deposit voucher
> specimens in collections.
>> In this case, the authors, journal and reviewers are guilty by publish this wrong
> paper. For this is mandatory publish a adequate response.
>> Saludos!
>> Rolando
>>> On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:49:56 +0200, Christos Arvanitidis wrote
>> Dear Lena and colleagues,
>>>> In such cases, it is suggested by all editors that a critique article
>> pointing out these inconsistencies should be submitted to the same
>> Journal. And such articles are, indeed, considered as formal
>> publications.
>> In this particular journal, I'm sure you can even ask for a fee waiver
>> to avoid the high publication costs.
>>>> I remember for example Dr. Zibrowius who had detected three such cases
>> of "new species" in molluscs and other phyla whose the descriptions
>> were in fact based on Ditrupa arietina individuals.
>>>> I hope this helps.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Christos.
>>>> Quoting Elena Kupriyanova <Elena.Kupriyanova from austmus.gov.au>:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>> Sorry, I just cannot be quiet about it. I just seriously wonder why
>>> invasion ecologists so blatantly ignore any taxonomical research and
>>> I wonder where they get information that they publish?
>>>>>> Here is a recent example
>>>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191859>>>>>> They claim that they found common Australian serpulid Spirobranchus
>>> taeniatus and that it is a NATIVE SPECIES in Bay of Biscay, Spain. A
>>> 5-second search shows to anyone that this species was described from
>>> Australia and is known only from temperate Australia (for example
>>>http://www.iobis.org/explore/#/taxon/844904).
>>> They also write exactly this:
>>> Five species were not native: Crassostrea gigas, Ostrea stentina,
>>> Austrominius modestus, Serpula columbiana, and Neodexiospira sp. C.
>>> gigas and A. modestus are listed in the global invasive species
>>> database (GISD, http://www.issg.org/database).
>>> Yes, Serpula columbiana is not a native species in the study area,
>>> it is known only from the West Coast of the USA, but it is NOT
>>> listed in the database above (check you don't belive me)!
>>> See Fig. 5 - this is what their wonderful identification "using
>>> genetic barcoding" looks like - the sequences are fragments of 18S!
>>> And their photos do not even closely resemble tubes of Spirobranchus
>>> taeniatus and Serpula columbiana.
>>> I just cannot believe it.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Dr. Elena Kupriyanova
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>>> Marine Invertebrates
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