Vanessa
Grammostola Groupie
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I made a joke on FB that taxonomists do it on purpose because hobbyists complain about taxonomy revisions.Also, that scientific name...$100 for whoever can pronounce it (just kidding, but that is crazy)!
Also, that scientific name...$100 for whoever can pronounce it (just kidding, but that is crazy)!
Thanks,
Arthroverts
@VanessaS There are many problems and unpressional aspects in it. More I read it, more dissapointed and sad I am. I will try to write deeper analysis tomorow.I made a joke on FB that taxonomists do it on purpose because hobbyists complain about taxonomy revisions.
I actually don't find it that bad - Joni-triantis-van-sickle-i
I find Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica more challenging.
Isn't there a governing body to oversee the quality of taxonomy research who would step in and ask for those missing/sub-standard/incorrect entries to be corrected before becoming peer review approved? Isn't that usually the process - that it has to undergo a couple of levels of review before being considered peer approved?Disclaimer: I am not questiong the discovery of species itself, it is beautiful spider and it is great that it was discovered. I am gonna talk about quality of description paper.
Nanayakkara is the researcher that TKC has contacted/trying to get or tried to get donations for x acres of land in Sri Lanka.And I have a slightly unrelated question. Is one of the researchers involved the same person that the Tarantula Collective group are soliciting donations for?
Yessir, that’s the one!
Generally no.Isn't there a governing body to oversee the quality of taxonomy research who would step in and ask for those missing/sub-standard/incorrect entries to be corrected before becoming peer review approved?
Just in case of peer reviewed jornal. And even than the information value of some articles may be quite questionable as review process is sometimes more focused on formal aspects than core information provided.Isn't that usually the process - that it has to undergo a couple of levels of review before being considered peer approved?
I am not saying he is unquallified. Just that publishing in own paper, not always but often, means that work woldnt be possible to be published anywhere else. He actually may be the most quallified out of trio. While there are some great taxonomists even without formal education, those are exceptions, and sorry but I am not impressed by two students. Maybe they should have consulted with some of their profesors...Yes, one of the people listed is an editor at the BTS, but the other two are listed as "Ranil P. Nanayakkara -Biodiversity Education And Research (BEAR) and University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka · Zoology PhD Candidate" and "Amila Prasanna Sumanapala - University of Colombo Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences BSc (Hons) Environmental Conservation and Management", so I would hardly say that there weren't qualified people involved who should have the resources to put together the research paper properly, even if they had never done it before.
Probably, they mention support from TKC in the paper.And I have a slightly unrelated question. Is one of the researchers involved the same person that the Tarantula Collective group are soliciting donations for?