NOMENCLATOR

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NOMENCLATOR

• by
• Claude MASSIN
• PEET Workshop
• Brussels 04-08 December 2006

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For
Stichopodidae and
Holothuriidae
At family level
List of the genera and subgenera
At generic level
List of all the species ever recorded in a genus,
with synonymy and present status
At specific level
References
Present status
Reference of original description
References of subsequent citations under the
original name
References of subsequent citations under
modified combinations
References
of synonyms

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One reference includes Scientific name,
Author(s), Date of publication, Page(s), Plate(s),
Figure(s), Distribution map, B/W or colour
photo(s)
Type locality
Geographic distribution
Location of type specimen(s)
References of the best illustration(s
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List of scanned original description
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Subsequent citations
selective or exhaustive?
We need to take into account papers dealing
with
Taxonomy
Faunal lists
Zoogeography
Ecology
But not dealing with
Anatomy
Biochemistry
Physiology
Parasites
Reproduction
Fisheries
Pharmacology
unless
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they give information on characters allowing
to separate species
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they give new localities for the
zoogeographic
distribution.
What about grey literature? (Master or PhD
Thesis, catalogue of echinoderm collections,
technical reports,)
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Language
What about the references dealing with
A.
japonicus,
? Most of them are in Russian,
Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
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Still to be done
- Check the work done - Find missing references
(more or less 300) - Location of type material -
Text and references to be saved in program. -
Definition families, genera, subgenera -
Identification key - Synallactidae?