Memorandum
of Cooperation
Appropriate organisations, institutions
and societies are asked to sign the MoC to demonstrate their support
and approval of the work of the ICZN. (Download
MoC Pdf)
ICZN Affiliates
Memorandum of Cooperation
As signatories
to this Memorandum of Cooperation with the International Commission
on Zoological Nomenclature, we support the overall aim of the Commission,
that of promoting "Standards, Sense and Stability for animal
names in science". We endorse the activities of the Commission
in producing and periodically revising the International Code
of Zoological Nomenclature, and ruling on cases where animal
nomenclature requires resolution.
We recognise that the Commission
is a unique body of specialist scientists, truly international in
its composition, who freely donate their services to the work of
ICZN. Without the existence of ICZN, and particularly without the
Code, animal scientific nomenclature would rapidly become unstable.
Now more than ever, with information
technology revolutionising the way that animal taxonomy is undertaken
and the means by which the results of taxonomic research are disseminated,
ICZN has a central and crucial role to play in maintaining stability
of animal names.
We also support ICZN's Mission and
Vision statements:
Mission:
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
is dedicated to achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming
of animals.
Vision:
The International Commission
on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), acting in the capacity of adviser
and arbiter, assists the zoological community through generation
and dissemination of information on the correct use of the scientific
names of animals. This includes the publication of the
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and the Bulletin
of Zoological Nomenclature containing applications to, and rulings
by, the Commission.
ICZN will distribute this information as widely as possible,
working towards the provision of a free service.
By signing this Memorandum of Cooperation
we are therefore pleased to become ICZN Affiliates forthwith.
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