[Nhcoll-l] Rio disaster and its aftermath

[Sonia Fraga]

Doug Yanega


In Entomology we still do not know what can be saved, we still can not
enter to verify.


Sonia Maria Lopes
Chefe do Dept. Entomologia
Museu Nacional, UFRJ

Sonia

Em ter, 4 de set de 2018 às 16:11, Marcelo Weksler <mweksler at mn.ufrj.br>
escreveu:

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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu>
> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 15:41
> Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Rio disaster and its aftermath
> To: iczn-list <iczn-list at afriherp.org>, taxacom <
> TAXACOM at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>, nhcoll <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
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>
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> I expect that most, if not all of you, have heard by now of the almost
> total destruction of the Museu Nacional in Rio this Sunday. The magnitude
> of this calamity - personally, for all the researchers who worked there,
> and scientifically, for those who used the collections - is beyond easy
> comprehension. It will take our community years to wrestle with all of the
> consequences, and our hearts go out to our colleagues affected by this
> tragedy.
>
> Very briefly: I have already begun to see discussions and commentaries
> online about the potential difficulties surrounding the thousands, if not
> tens of thousands, of primary types that were lost this weekend. Speaking
> on behalf of the ICZN, I would urge people to refrain from speculation on
> this topic, in particular regarding the potential designation of neoytpes
> to replace lost primary types.
>
> I and other Commissioners are hoping that we can draft a short document
> (and once it has been vetted, distributed widely to the taxonomic community
> within a week or so) to clarify the rules in the present ICZN Code that
> govern neotype designation. In a nutshell - and I must emphasize this point
> - not all lost types *need* to be replaced, and in fact the Code
> *prohibits* the designation of neotypes except under certain exceptional
> circumstances that go beyond the simple absence of a primary type. It is
> therefore quite likely that a significant number of the lost types from the
> Rio collections will never be replaced, and this is actually in accordance
> with the Code.
>
> Rather than go into further detail now, I'll remind anyone who has
> interest in this to please refer to the present version of the Code, which
> differs in many respects from older Code versions, and familiarize
> yourselves with Chapter 16, Article 75 - and which can be read online here:
> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/
>
> Hopefully within a week we will have a more detailed document ready to
> offer guidance as to when and when not to designate neotypes.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> --
> Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
> Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
> phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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