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There is a fairly scathing editorial in Nature [The new zoo. (2013). Nature, 503(7476), 311–312. doi:10.1038/503311b ] that reacts to a recent paper by Dubois et al.:To quote the editorial:Ouch! But Dubois et al.'s paper pretty much deserves this reaction - it's a reactionary rant that is breathtaking in it's lack of perspective.

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There are many reasons why the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is in trouble, but fundamentally I think it's because of situation illustrated by following diagram.Based on an analysis of the Index of Organism Names (ION) database that I'm currently working on, there are around 3.8 million animal names (I define "animal" loosely, the ICZN covers a number of eukaryote groups), of which around 1.5 million are "original

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Image by Mr.checker from Wikimedia Commons Science carries a news piece on the perilous state of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (on Twitter as @ZooNom):Pennisi, E. (2013). International Arbiter of Animal Names Faces Financial Woes. Science, 339(6122), 897–897.

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Here is my presentation from today's Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond meeting. Open taxonomy View more presentations from Roderic PageAll the presentations will be posted online, along with podcasts of the audio. Meantime, presentations by Dave Remsen and Chris Freeland are already online.