Re: INTRODUCING Microraptor gui (or Cryptovolans pauli, or Microraptor pauli,...

["Ken Carpenter" <KCarpenter@dmns.org>]

peer review is not a requirement according to the rules of zoological 
nomenclature.

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology &
Chief Preparator
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Natural History 
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80205

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>>> "Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com> 23/Jan/03 >>>

Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

><< (if the Czerkas et al. paper is accepted as valid taxonomic
>>literature: if
>not, it's _M. gui_) >>
>
>Oh, it's valid taxonomic literature all right. The _quality_ of the paper 
>isn't an issue as far as nomenclatural acts go; all that's needed is the 
>published recognition and naming of the new taxon.

I hate to be a fly in the ointment, but there is the matter of "peer 
review".


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