Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009...

• Main Author: Angosti, Donat (author)
• Other Authors: Aguiar, Antonio (author), Aguiar, Jonas Jose (author), Ahrens, Dirk (author), Alves, María (author), Aleixo, Alexandre (author)
• Format: article
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Taxonomy; Photography; Biological sciences
• Online Access: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9; http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/134