ZooBank

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LSID for this nomenclatural act.[2]

ZooBank is an

ICZN Code of Nomenclature
. Acts published in physical publications are encouraged, but not required to be registered prior to their publication.

globally unique identifier for ZooBank registration entries.[4]

The ZooBank prototype was seeded with data from

.

History

ZooBank was officially proposed in 2005 by the executive secretary of ICZN.[5][6] The registry was live on 10 August 2006 with 1.5 million species entered.[7][8]

The first ZooBank LSIDs were issued on 1 January 2008,

ICZN Code as the official start of scientific zoological nomenclature. Chromis abyssus was the first species entered into the ZooBank system with a timestamp of 2008-01-01T00:00:02.[9][10][11]

Contents

Four main types of data objects are stored in ZooBank. Nomenclatural acts are governed by the

biological type
specimens of animals which are provisionally registered, until the bodies responsible for such types implement their own registries.

In addition to those,

periodicals
which have published articles are also entities within the system, providing access to a list of "Nomenclatural Acts" published in the periodical over time.

Electronic publications

Traditionally, taxonomic data was published in journals or books. However, with the increase in electronic publications, the ICZN established new rules that include e-publications, especially electronic only publications. Such publications are now regulated by amendments of ICZN Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78. Technically, nomenclatural acts that are published in electronic only papers are not recognized if they have not been registered with ZooBank and are considered as "non-existent".[12][13]

See also

References

  1. PMID 22253785
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  2. ^ "ZooBank.org". zoobank.org. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  3. ^ Chillingworth, Mark (10 April 2006). "Zoologists bank on database". Information World Review. Archived from the original on 12 April 2006.
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  6. ^ Yoon, Carol Kaesuk (11 October 2005). "ESSAY; In the Classification Kingdom, Only the Fittest Survive". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "60 Seconds: Zoo surfing" (New Scientist full online access is exclusive to subscribers). New Scientist (2565). 19 August 2006.
  8. ^ Biodiverse MySpace? Online Encyclopedia To Name All Species
  9. LiveScience
    . 22 May 2009.
  10. ^ Pyle, Richard L. "Chromis abyssus Pyle, Earle & Greene, 2008". Encyclopedia of Life.
  11. ^ "Chromis abyssus Pyle, Earle & Greene 2008". ZooBank.
  12. PMID 22977348
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  13. ^ "The Code Online | International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature". www.iczn.org. Retrieved 2 October 2016.

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