Naming the menagerie: creativity, culture and consequences in the formation of scientific names

Renaming taxa on ethical grounds threatens nomenclatural stability and scientific communication

(2023) Luis M P Ceríaco et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Can species naming drive scientific attention? A perspective from plant-feeding arthropods

(2023) Julia J. Mlynarek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Taxonomic practice, creativity and fashion: what’s in a spider name?

(2023) Stefano Mammola et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Some, but not all, eponyms should be disallowed

(2023) Kevin Thiele   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Change in biological nomenclature is overdue and possible

(2023) Mirjana Roksandic et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Inclusive and productive ways forward needed for species-naming conventions

(2023) Michael C. Orr et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature

(2023) Patrícia Guedes et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

People-inspired names remain valuable

(2023) Alexandre Antonelli et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Disrupting the epistemic empire is necessary for a decolonial ecology

(2023) Mathew Bukhi Mabele et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism?

(2023) ROHAN PETHIYAGODA   Megataxa

If “ Rhodes ‐” must fall, who shall fall next?

(2022) Sergei L. Mosyakin   TAXON

A new rainfrog of the genus Pristimantis (Anura, Brachycephaloidea) from central and eastern Panama

(2022) Konrad Mebert et al.   ZooKeys

Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species

(2022) Jiajia Liu et al.   Conservation Letters

What’s in a Fish Species Name and When to Change It?

(2022) Bryn H. Tracy   FISHERIES

What's in a name? Taxonomic and gender biases in the etymology of new species names

(2022) Robert Poulin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, Africa) and novel insights into the systematic affinities within Otus

(2022) Martim Melo et al.   ZooKeys

Indigenous Species Names in Algae, Fungi and Plants: A Comment on Gillman & Wright (2020)

(2021) Sandra Knapp et al.   TAXON

Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery

(2021) Mario R. Moura et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Testing branding techniques on species common names to improve their fundraising profile for conservation

(2021) Alejandra Díaz‐Restrepo et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

(126) Proposal to add a new Article 61.6 to permanently and retroactively eliminate epithets with the root caf[e]r‐ or caff[e]r‐ from the nomenclature of algae, fungi and plants

(2021) Gideon F. Smith et al.   TAXON

“ Rhodes ‐” must fall: Some of the consequences of colonialism for botany and plant nomenclature

(2021) Gideon F. Smith et al.   TAXON

(119–122) Proposals to amend Articles 51 and 56 and Division III , to allow the rejection of culturally offensive and inappropriate names

(2021) Timothy A. Hammer et al.   TAXON

A comprehensive assessment of diversity loss in a well-documented tropical insect fauna: Almost half of Singapore's butterfly species extirpated in 160 years

(2020) Meryl Theng et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Comparative genomics and pan-genomics of the Myxococcaceae, including a description of five novel species: Myxococcus eversor sp. nov., Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis sp. nov., Myxococcus vastator sp. nov., Pyxidicoccus caerfyrddinensis sp. nov. and Pyxidicoccus trucidator sp. nov

(2020) James Chambers et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Restoring indigenous names in taxonomy

(2020) Len Norman Gillman et al.   Communications Biology

The inequity of species names: The flora of New Caledonia as a case study

(2020) Yohan Pillon   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera

(2019) Mark D. Scherz et al.   PLoS One

A revision of the Aiphanes parvifolia complex (Arecaceae)

(2019) RODRIGO BERNAL et al.   Phytotaxa

A new Ocellularia (lichenized Ascomycota: Graphidaceae) from New Zealand indicates small-scale differentiation of an Australasian species complex

(2019) Andrew J. Marshall et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Ten unique and charismatic new species of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from North America

(2018) Jose Fernandez-Triana   ZooKeys

What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species

(2018) Estrela Figueiredo et al.   Bradleya

A new, critically endangered species of Aiphanes (Arecaceae) from Colombia

(2017) RODRIGO BERNAL et al.   Phytotaxa

A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings

(2015) Xing Xu et al.   NATURE

New species of the Australian horse fly subgenusScaptia (Plinthina)Walker 1850 (Diptera: Tabanidae), including species descriptions and a revised key

(2015) Bryan D Lessard et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Moraea intermedia and M. vuvuzela (Iridaceae-Iridoideae), two new species from western South Africa, and some nomenclatural changes and range extensions in the genus

(2015) P. Goldblatt et al.   BOTHALIA

Gaga, a New Fern Genus Segregated from Cheilanthes (Pteridaceae)

(2012) Fay-Wei Li et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

What's in a Name? Do Species' Names Impact Student Support for Conservation?

(2012) Paul T. Karaffa et al.   HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE

Impact of attack by Gnorimoschema gallmakers on their ancestral and novel Solidago hosts

(2011) Stephen B. Heard et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

A comparison of two DNA barcode markers for species discrimination in the red algal family Kallymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Florideophyceae), with a description of Euthora timburtonii sp. nov.

(2010) Bridgette E. Clarkston et al.   Botany