Huber Bernhard A, Szymański Hubert, Bennett-West Alice
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, LIB, Bonn, Germany Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig Bonn Germany.
Włocławek, Poland Unaffiliated Włocławek Poland.
Zookeys. 2024 Oct 1;1214:77-90. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1214.130592. eCollection 2024.
A new species of the Sub-Saharan spider genus Huber, 2003 is described that has been collected in garden centers in Poland and the UK. Its closest known relative is probably Huber, 2003, known from Free State Province in South Africa. Working on the premise that placing species in time and space is the fundamental task of taxonomy, and acknowledging that we cannot provide biologically meaningful spatial information for this species, we prefer open nomenclature to make this species known to science without formally describing it, using the unique provisional name sp. ZFMK Ar 24490 aff.lotzi. We argue that the judicious use of open nomenclature can serve to improve the quality of species lists, reducing the noise in large-scale analyses of biodiversity data. We expand this argument to 'fragmentary' species descriptions in general, such as single-sex descriptions in large genera with many male-only and female-only descriptions. Not every taxonomic act allowed by the Code is necessarily beneficial. Under certain conditions, the informal description of a putatively new species may serve science better than a formal description based on inadequate material or data.
2003年描述了一种来自撒哈拉以南地区的蜘蛛新物种，它是在波兰和英国的园艺中心采集到的。其已知的最亲近的亲属可能是2003年在南非自由邦省发现的某种蜘蛛。基于将物种在时间和空间中定位是分类学的基本任务这一前提，并认识到我们无法为该物种提供具有生物学意义的空间信息，我们倾向于使用开放命名法，以便在不进行正式描述的情况下让科学界知晓该物种，使用独特的临时名称“sp. ZFMK Ar 24490 aff.lotzi”。我们认为明智地使用开放命名法有助于提高物种名录的质量，减少生物多样性数据大规模分析中的干扰因素。我们将这一观点推广到一般的“碎片化”物种描述，比如在有许多仅雄性和仅雌性描述的大属中进行单性别的描述。并非《国际动物命名法规》允许的每一项分类行为都必然有益。在某些情况下，对一个假定的新物种进行非正式描述可能比基于不充分的材料或数据进行正式描述更有利于科学研究。
