16a.4. Within a period of two
years from the date of publication, a name cannot be declared to
be unavailable solely because it is not registered. It has to be
assumed that it is available.
Add Recommendation
16aA. Registration by authors. Registration is an integral
component of the process of publishing new names. Authors must
register new names immediately after publication or ensure registration
by another person if they are not able to do it themselves.
Add Recommendation
16aB. Posthumous registration. If an author dies before
registration, or in the case of posthumous publications, editors
are requested to register new names with the Commission immediately
after publication.
Add Recommendation
16aC. Late registration by the Commission. If a name
has not been registered two years after its publication, the
Commission must be informed. The Commission Secretariat will
then register the name.
Amendment to Article
21.1.: Replace 'Except as provided in Article 3' by:
Except as provided in Articles 3 and 16a.3'. Add: For
names published after 2007 the date to be adopted is stated in
the database of registered names.
Add Article 32.2.3. The
spelling of names published after 2007 that are registered with
the Commission can only be changed by use of the Commission's plenary
power.
Add Article 52.8. Homonymy
of registered names. Names registered after 2007 have no precedence
over still unregistered older homonyms (regardless of whether the
older homonym was published before 2008 or after 2007). If a registered
name is a junior homonym, the Commission must be informed immediately.
Add Article 78.4.6. register
all new names published after 2007, provide an open access database
of these names and their original descriptions through the World
Wide Web and maintain a paper archive of all original descriptions.
Add Article 80.10. Database
of registered names published after 2007. New names published after
2007 must be registered by the Commission with the ZooBank database
to be available for nomenclatural purposes. The status of registered
names does not differ from the status of names published before
2007. They have no precedence over names published before 2007.
The Commission will provide an open-access database, ZooBank, of
registered names via the World Wide Web. If the open access or
maintenance of this database cannot be provided for longer than
12 months, Article 16a will become inoperative until it is reinstated
by plenary power.
Amendment to Article
83. Replace 'The Commission is under no obligation...'
by:
"Apart from the mandatory check for Code-compliance during
registration, the Commission is under no obligation....."
The protocol that would be established
through ZooBank for registering new names and nomenclatural acts
under this procedure is described below, and summarised in Fig.
1.
1. Either prior to or after publication
of a new name or nomenclatural act the author (or third party,
see below) will log on to the ICZN website (www.iczn.org),
or alternative approved site as listed on the ICZN website, and
fill in the form provided. This form requests all details of the
new name or nomenclatural act required for Code-compliance and
to maintain completeness of ZooBank (a postal service will also
be available for those without internet access).
2. A "nomenclatural act"
includes the following: (i) the suppression of a name; (ii) the
proposal of a replacement name; (iii) fixation of a spelling
of a name; (iv) an emendation of a name; (v) fixation of a type
species; (vi) first inclusion of nominal species in a genus-group
taxon; (vii) designation of a lectotype; (viii) designation of
a neotype; (ix) citation of the type genus of a family-group
name published after 1999.
