No longer python reticulatus (or broghammerus)

[millertime89]

I present to you:
Malayopython reticulatus! (and Timoriensis)
Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790313004284)
Page 6 or 206 (depending on how you look).

[Aaron_S]

Sounds cool.

It's just a suggested revision. I'm not paying for the entire thing but has it been peer reviewed?I am off to meet with a client so I can't look into it.

[Sublimeballs]

Good read, thanks Kyle

[pdomensis]

Looks like Morelia is getting divided as well.

[MDT]

Where is Hoser in all of this? I need a good laugh....

[millertime89]

Sounds cool.

It's just a suggested revision. I'm not paying for the entire thing but has it been peer reviewed?I am off to meet with a client so I can't look into it.

Peer reviewed and published. PM me your email and I'll shoot you a copy. Same for anybody else that wants to read it.

[snakemanaust]

MDT (and others), Reynolds et al. is not a code compliant publication in the first instance and so any names proposed within would be invalid.
Secondly, even if Reynolds et al. or a later incarnation of the paper, were to be code compliant the names proposed (Malayopython/Simalia) are both junior synonyms of earlier names, namely Broghammerus and Australiasis. In other words the original pair remain the correct ones.
This is noted in the context that the newer names have the same type species as the older ones, so are fully ruled out to be properly used for anything!
That is how the rules of zoology work!
It is sad that a bunch of renegades (Reynolds et al) have created such instability of nomenclature and confusion by their publication. Those who actively promote Reynolds et al. are guilty of the same violation of the Zoological rules.
All the best

[Aaron_S]

MDT (and others), Reynolds et al. is not a code compliant publication in the first instance and so any names proposed within would be invalid.
Secondly, even if Reynolds et al. or a later incarnation of the paper, were to be code compliant the names proposed (Malayopython/Simalia) are both junior synonyms of earlier names, namely Broghammerus and Australiasis. In other words the original pair remain the correct ones.
This is noted in the context that the newer names have the same type species as the older ones, so are fully ruled out to be properly used for anything!
That is how the rules of zoology work!
It is sad that a bunch of renegades (Reynolds et al) have created such instability of nomenclature and confusion by their publication. Those who actively promote Reynolds et al. are guilty of the same violation of the Zoological rules.
All the best

Interesting....

Kyle. Your response?

[MDT]

Taxonomic vandalism and the Raymond Hoser problem | Tetrapod Zoology, Scientific American Blog Network (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2013/06/20/taxonomic-vandalism-and-raymond-hoser/)


For your reading pleasure...

[millertime89]

I was wrong if what he said is true. Go throw a party or something.