ICZN in the news...

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Codes must be updated so that names are known to all (Nature 447, 142, 10 May 2007: Quentin D. Wheeler & Frank T. Krell)

Spreading the word (15 March 2007; Keeping track of a new species is a growing challenge for modern taxonomists. Sandra Knapp, Andrew Polaszek (ICZN) and Mark Watson make the case for electronic publication of scientific names, Nature 446, published online 14 March 2007).

An Exquisite New Species found on Ebay (Chris Vallance, 4 September 2006 Dr Simon Coppard has an unusual claim to fame: he's identified a new species of sea urchin, but he did so not by dredging the depths of the sea, but by trawling the pages of the auction website Ebay, BBC Radio FIVE LIVE)

New species of sea urchin found in eBay auctions (19 August 2006, From magazine issue 2565 News: They say you can get anything on the internet auction site - it now seems you can even discover new marine species, New Scientist).

New urchin leaves eBayers all at sea (Helen O'Brien, 17 August 2006, Guardian Unlimited).

Electronic ark to hold all known animal species (17 August 2006; It's being called a 'genome project' for zoology, the field's equivalent to the Moon landing. ZooBank, an online database of all known animal species, was launched on 10 August (www.zoobank.org) Nature 437, Published online: 16 August 2006).

In praise of... taxonomy (Leader, 12 August 2006, The Guardian).

Zoologists bank on database (Mark Chillingworth, 10 Apr 2006: An open access register for animal taxonomy will offer a free online resource for checking animal names and registering new species. Information World Review, online publictaion).

Nom d' un cafard, c'est la jungle (Name of a cockroach, it is the jungle; Corinine Bensimon, 27 May 2006: Bushi, rumsfeldi, cheneyi... Chaque année, 15 000 espèces sont découvertes et baptisées en toute liberté. Des chercheurs proposent de créer le premier registre d'état civil des animaux, ZooBank, Liberation.fr).

Names for sale (11 February, 2006: The ancient science of taxonomy might benefit from a little modern marketing, The Economist [print edition]).

Today we have naming of parts (9 February 2006: A global registry of animal species could shake up taxonomy, The Economist [print edition]).

Conserving our chimp cousins (28 January 2006, The Guardian).

Taxing Taxonomy (Tim Radford, 27 January 2006, on the problem of scientific names - still a thorny one 300 years after their advent, Guardian Unlimited).

Two words colliding: resistance to changes in the scientific names of animals – Aedes vs Stegomyia (Andrew Polaszek, 1 January 2006, TRENDS in Parasitology 22(1)).

In the Classification Kingdom, Only the Fittest Survive (Carol Kaesuk Yoo, 11 October 2005, The New York Times)

Plädoyer für zentrales Tiernamen-Register (28 September 2005: Zoo Bank, soll die Biologie Internet-tauglicher machen, Neue Zurcher Zeitung)

Record haul of 20,000 new species expected (Robin McKie and Zoe Corbyn, 25 September 2005: Wildlife is discovered as habitats are destroyed and it has nowhere to run, The Observer).

Online database to catalogue animal life (Emma Young, 24 September 2005, Magazine issue 2518: A planned global online system called ZooBank will spread the news of new species and may help prevent fraudsters registering bogus species, New Scientist).

Single register for new-found species urged (Tim Radford, 22 September 2005, The Guardian).

A universal register for animal names (22 September 2005, Andrew Polaszek and colleagues propose an open-access web-register for animal names, which they believe is vital to move taxonomy into the twenty-first century, Commentary, Nature 437, 477.

Sense and stability in animal names (Andrew Polaszek and Edward O. Wilson, June 2005, TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution, 20(8)).

US President inspires name for slime-mould beetle (Andy Coghlan James Randerson, 23 April 2005,, Magazine issue 2496: George W Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have all been "honoured" by having a species of fungus-scrabbling beetle named after them, New Scientist).

Monkey moniker goes up for auction (12 February 2005, WANT to have your name immortalised? Well, here's your chance, as the right to name a species of Bolivian monkey is going up for auction online, New Scientist).