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The taxon treatment for the frogPaedophryne amauensis,[1]mentioning theLSIDfor this nomenclatural act.[2]

ZooBankis anopen accesswebsite intended to be the officialInternational Commission on Zoological Nomenclature(ICZN) registry ofzoological nomenclature.[3]Any nomenclatural acts (e.g. publications that create or change a taxonomic name) published electronically need to be registered with ZooBank prior to publication to be "officially" recognized by theICZN Code of Nomenclature.Acts published in physical publications are encouraged, but not required to be registered prior to their publication.

Life Science Identifiers(LSIDs) are used as theglobally unique identifierfor ZooBank registration entries.[4]

The ZooBank prototype was seeded with data fromIndex to Organism Names(http:// organismnames), which was compiled from the scientific literature inZoological Recordnow owned byThomson Reuters.

History[edit]

ZooBank was officially proposed in 2005 by the executive secretary of ICZN.[5][6]The registry was live on 10 August 2006 with 1.5 million species entered.[7][8]

The first ZooBank LSIDs were issued on 1 January 2008,[4]precisely 250 years after 1 January 1758, which is the date defined by theICZN Codeas the official start of scientific zoological nomenclature.Chromis abyssuswas the first species entered into the ZooBank system with a timestamp of 2008-01-01T00:00:02.[9][10][11]

Contents[edit]

Four main types of data objects are stored in ZooBank.Nomenclatural actsare governed by theICZN Code of Nomenclature,and are typically "original descriptions" of new scientific names, however other acts, such asemendationsandlectotypifications,are also governed by the ICZN code and technically require registration by ZooBank.Publicationsincludejournal articlesand other publications containing Nomenclatural Acts.Authorsrecords theacademic authorshipof Nomenclatural Acts.Type Specimensrecord thebiological typespecimens of animals which are provisionally registered, until the bodies responsible for such types implement their own registries.

In addition to those,periodicalswhich have published articles are also entities within the system, providing access to a list of "Nomenclatural Acts" published in the periodical over time.

Electronic publications[edit]

Traditionally, taxonomic data was published in journals or books. However, with the increase in electronic publications, the ICZN established new rules that include e-publications, especially electronic only publications. Such publications are now regulated by amendments of ICZN Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78. Technically, nomenclatural acts that are published in electronic only papers are not recognized if they have not been registered with ZooBank and are considered as "non-existent".[12][13]

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References[edit]

  1. ^Rittmeyer, Eric N.; Allison, Allen; Gründler, Michael C.; Thompson, Derrick K.; Austin, Christopher C. (2012)."Ecological guild evolution and the discovery of the world's smallest vertebrate".PLOS One.7(1): e29797.Bibcode:2012PLoSO...729797R.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029797.PMC3256195.PMID22253785.
  2. ^"ZooBank.org".zoobank.org.Retrieved9 August2018.
  3. ^Chillingworth, Mark (10 April 2006)."Zoologists bank on database".Information World Review.Archived fromthe originalon 12 April 2006.
  4. ^abPyle, Richard L.; Michel, Ellinor (2008)."ZooBank: Developing a nomenclatural tool for unifying 250 years of biological information"(PDF).Zootaxa.1950(1950): 39–50.doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1950.1.6.
  5. ^Polaszek, Andrew (22 September 2005)."A universal register for animal names".Nature.437(477): 477.Bibcode:2005Natur.437..477P.doi:10.1038/437477a.PMID16177765.S2CID3085194.
  6. ^Yoon, Carol Kaesuk (11 October 2005)."ESSAY; In the Classification Kingdom, Only the Fittest Survive".The New York Times.
  7. ^"60 Seconds: Zoo surfing"(New Scientist full online access is exclusive to subscribers).New Scientist(2565). 19 August 2006.
  8. ^Biodiverse MySpace? Online Encyclopedia To Name All Species
  9. ^"Pea-Sized Seahorse Makes 'Top 10 Species' List".LiveScience.22 May 2009.
  10. ^Pyle, Richard L."Chromis abyssus Pyle, Earle & Greene, 2008".Encyclopedia of Life.
  11. ^"Chromis abyssus Pyle, Earle & Greene 2008".ZooBank.
  12. ^Nomenclature, International Commission on Zoological (9 April 2012)."Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication".ZooKeys(219): 1–10.doi:10.3897/zookeys.219.3944.ISSN1313-2970.PMC3433695.PMID22977348.
  13. ^"The Code Online | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature".iczn.org.Retrieved2 October2016.

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