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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