Fri, 2019-08-16 13:53 -- An obituary has been published for heteropterist and former Commissioner Pavel Štys (1933–2018) here. An announcement of his passing was published earlier this year in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.

Mon, 2019-07-08 11:40 -- Information about Cases and Nomenclatural Notes published in the first tranche of articles for BZN volume 76 is now available from the website. We seek your patience as information from back issues and volumes are uploaded. Thank you very much.

Mon, 2019-05-27 08:43 -- The ICZN and Code online websites have been migrated to a new platform and servers. The Commission and Secretariat would like to acknowledge and thank the team at the Natural History Museum (London) for hosting and maintaining the ICZN domain for all this time.

Tue, 2019-04-30 09:20 -- The International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature has adopted as Parts of the List of Available Names in Zoology both Candidate Parts of Phylum Rotifera, compiled by Jersabek et al. (2018a, b). The Ruling was published on the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature as Opinion 2430, on 30 April 2019 (link here, open access: https://biotaxa.org/bzn/article/view/50666). These Parts are the first to be added to the List .

The ICZN would like to thank the LAN Committees as well as the international community of rotiferologists for this commendable effort.

In order to commemorate this occasion, the cover of this year's Bulletin features the winning photograph in a rotifer picture competition, of Keratella serrulata (Ehrenberg, 1838) © Michael Plewka, plingfactory.de. This is the first time the Bulletin has featured a photograph on its front cover.

PDFs of both Parts can be downloaded from archive.org (below), or from the ICZN website.

Candidate Part Phylum Rotifera, genus-group names established before 1 January 2000, compiled by Jersabek et al., 2018.

Candidate Part Phylum Rotifera, species-group names established before 1 January 2000, compiled by Jersabek et al., 2018.