One of the most iconic tortoise species, coming from the Sivalik Hills in India and probably the largest tortoise that ever lived, has a complicated nomenclatural history. Although initially published as Megalochelys ...

In zoological nomenclature, to be potentially valid, nomenclatural novelties (i.e., new nomina and nomenclatural acts) need first to be made available, that is, published in works qualifying as publications as defined by ...

In the recent proposal to clarify the meaning of the term ichnotaxon, Bertling et al. (2003) suggested that the Glossary definition of 'work of an animal' should be emended. To supplement the proposed definition of trace ...

Bertling et al. (2003) have proposed various changes to a new edition of the Code which were commented on by Tubbs (2003). His comments show that major arguments obviously have not been put in a way fully comprehensible ...

In his recent self-published book "Reptiles en Chile", Diego Demangel Miranda presented 13 taxonomic changes for liolaemid and tropidurid lizards. While these could be considered validly published according to the International ...

According to the Code currently in force, taxonomic works presenting nomenclatural novelties published on optical discs may be nomenclaturally available only if published between 1985 and 2013, and respecting some conditions ...

In 2000, the first draft of PhyloCode was made public, an alternative naming code that does not follow Linnaean rankings and is based on the relationships of taxa in cladograms. In this study, the impact of the PhyloCode ...