Re: Nomina nuda and crap species

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

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> Datum: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:52:53 -0600
> Von: Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>
> An: Rob Taylor <rjtaylor68@comcast.net>
> CC: dinosaur@usc.edu, gkw@amnet.net.au
> Betreff: Re: Nomina nuda and crap species

> If names can be created 
> willy-nilly without restraint, the result is chaos and effective 
> communication about identification, diversity, and phylogeny will be 
> very, very difficult.

Worse -- the ICZN makes it possible to validly publish nomenclatural acts 
_unintentionally_. This goes so far that there's an Article which allows 
authors of a publication to explicitly disclaim validity for nomenclatural acts 
in that publication, so that unintentional publication can be avoided:

"8.2. Publication may be disclaimed. A work that contains a statement to the 
effect that it is not issued for public and permanent scientific record, or for 
purposes of zoological nomenclature, is not published within the meaning of the 
Code."
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/index.jsp?article=8

Unintentional publication of nomenclatural acts has happened several times, 
AFAIK.

Incidentally, while I am at it, the PhyloCode contains the same rule, but 
doesn't need it, because unintentional _registration_ of a nomenclatural act is 
just about impossible.