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The big name hunters

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The death adders of Australia are not adders at all. Their closest relatives are cobras and coral snakes, but early naturalists were fooled by the snakes' stout body and triangular head. Even today, their taxonomy is a riddle: no one really knows where one species of death adder ends and the next begins. In the late 1990s, only three species of death adder had been recognized, but herpetologists suspected that there were at least twice as many. Ken Aplin, then a curator at the Western Australian Museum in Perth, had spent years collecting data to back up that hunch. But before his study could be published, Raymond Hoser, a herpetologist not affiliated with an academic institution, described five new species of the snake in a 1998 issue of Monitor, a hobbyist magazine he edited for the Victorian Herpetological Society. Under the taxonomic code of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), Hoser s names — printed and disseminated to society members — take priority over any subsequent descriptions of the species. Aplin had been scooped.
机译:澳大利亚的死亡加法器根本不是加法器。他们最亲近的亲戚是眼镜蛇和珊瑚蛇,但早期的博物学家被蛇的粗壮身体和三角形头部所迷惑。即使在今天,他们的分类法仍然是一个谜:没人真正知道一种加法器在哪里结束而下一种在哪里开始。在1990年代后期,仅识别出三种死亡加法器,但爬虫学家怀疑至少有两倍。珀斯西澳大利亚博物馆的策展人肯·阿普林(Ken Aplin)花费了数年的时间来收集数据以支持这种预感。但是在发表研究之前,与学术机构无关的爬行动物学家雷蒙德·霍泽(Raymond Hoser)在1998年发行的《监视器》(Monitor)中描述了五个新的蛇种,该杂志是他为维多利亚州爬虫学会编辑的一本业余爱好者杂志。根据国际动物学命名委员会(ICZN)的生物分类法,Hoser的名称(印刷并分发给社会成员)优先于该物种的后续描述。 Aplin被挖出了。

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    《Nature》 |2007年第7133期|p.253-255|共3页
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    Brendan Borrell;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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