Proposed Modification of the ICPN (PhyloCode) to Clarify an Issue Concerning the Authorship of Some Preexisting Names
2026/02/26 by KEVIN DE QUEIROZ, Philip D. Cantino · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
paper · pdf · doi:10.11646/bpn.2.2.1
openalex publication_date 2026/02/26 · openalex created_date 2026/02/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Abstract
While consulting with Daniel Madzia (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences) about the authorship of a preexisting name for a clade of plesiosaurians, we became aware of an inconsistency concerning the attribution of authorship in the International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (Cantino and de Queiroz 2020)...
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