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Electronic publications need registration in ZooBank to be available

Frank-Thorsten Krell, Thomas Pape, “Electronic publications need registration in ZooBank to be available”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 245-251, 2015.

The 2012 Amendment to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature allows electronic publication for nomenclatural purposes if certain requirements are fulfilled. We here explain these simple requirements, including what needs to be registered in ZooBank and when, which version of an electronic work is potentially Code-compliant (only the final, immutable version), and....

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On the nomenclature of the largest tortoise that ever lived: Megalochelys sivalensis Falconer & Cautley, 1837 vs. Colossochelys atlas Falconer & Cautley, 1844 (Reptilia, Testudinidae)

Evangelos Vlachos, “On the nomenclature of the largest tortoise that ever lived: Megalochelys sivalensis Falconer & Cautley, 1837 vs. Colossochelys atlas Falconer & Cautley, 1844 (Reptilia, Testudinidae)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 76, pp. , 2019.

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 sivalensis , the same authors decided to replace the name a few years later as ....

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