Zhang Zhi-Qiang
Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Road, Auckland, New Zealand School of Biological Sciences, the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Zootaxa. 2017 May 24;4269(4):451-452. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.4.1.
Discussions of current issues of broad interest in zoological taxonomy are encouraged in Zootaxa (Zhang 2007). One recent topic examines species names based on photographs without preserved specimens. This is not a new topic: as Ceríaco et al. (2016) correctly noted, this topic was previously discussed about a decade ago in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008), and was soon followed by a series of opinions and rebuttals when the critically endangered species Galápagos pink land iguana-Conolophus marthae Gentile & Snell, 2009-was named without a preserved holotype (Donegan 2009; Nemésio 2009a,b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009).
《动物分类学》(Zhang,2007)鼓励对动物分类学中当前广泛关注的问题进行讨论。最近的一个话题是研究基于照片而非保存标本的物种命名。这并非一个新话题:正如Ceríaco等人(2016)正确指出的,这个话题早在大约十年前就在《动物分类学》中被讨论过(Dubois & Nemésio,2007;Donegan,2008),并且在极度濒危物种加拉帕戈斯粉红陆鬣蜥——Conolophus marthae Gentile & Snell,2009——在没有保存的正模标本的情况下被命名后,很快就引发了一系列的观点和反驳(Donegan,2009;Nemésio,2009a、b;Dubois,2009;Gentile & Snell,2009;Minelli,2009)。