[dinosaur] The name 'Ubirajara' is not available

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

Following the news that print publication of the 'Ubirajara' paper will 
probably be suspended, I had written a few paragraphs of enquiry into whether 
the 'Ubirajara' paper counts as published already â in other words, whether 
suspending the printing will have any effect.

Then it occurred to me to follow the LSIDs in the paper.

The LSID for 'Ubirajara' is given as 
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:9467530F-3807-4B95-BCE4-28776E811182 in the paper. 
Searching for that, with the prefixes or not, does not produce any results on 
zoobank.org.

The LSID for 'U. jubatus' is given as 
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:BA4771E2-F0EF-4198-BF1C-9F46E2195EA9â in the paper. 
Searching for that, with the prefixes or not, and with the spurious-looking 
quotation mark or not, does not produce any results on zoobank.org.

Searching for 'Ubirajara' turns up somebody's first name and a species named 
after someone with that name, but neither a genus name nor 'U. jubatus'.

Technically, none of the above matters. The ICZN doesn't require that 
nomenclatural acts be registered in ZooBank. It requires (Art. 8.5.3) that _the 
paper itself_, if its electronic version is to be considered published, be 
registered and contain evidence of its registration.

The paper does _not_ contain evidence of having been registered. Now, if the 
nomenclatural acts were registered and evidence thereof contained in the 
publication, I (for what that's worth) would be happy to accept that the 
publication fulfills Art. 8.5.3 by implication; but the acts are not in fact 
registered â the paper's claims that they are are false.

Just for completeness, I searched ZooBank for the title and for the DOI of the 
paper to see whether the paper _is_ registered. No results.

I triple-checked. The paper lists its authors as Robert S.H. Smyth, David M. 
Martill, Eberhard Frey, HÃctor E. Rivera-Sylva and Norbert Lenz.
"Smyth, Robert" and "Smyth, Robert S. H." have ZooBank entries (with two 
different LSIDs). There are no publications (or nomenclatural acts for that 
matter) associated with either entry.
"Martill, David M." has an entry with 10 associated publications. None of them 
is the 'Ubirajara' paper. (No registered nomenclatural acts are associated with 
this entry, but, as mentioned, that's not actually necessary.)
"Frey, Eberhard" has two entries. One is associated with one publication (which 
names a new species of sloth; the act is not registered). The other is empty.
"Rivera-Sylva, Hector" has two publications, which are not the 'Ubirajara' 
paper; "Rivera-Sylva, HÃctor E." has none. (No acts for either.)
"Lenz, Norbert" is another empty entry.

(I suspect what happened went like this: one author was charged with 
registering the manuscript; instead, he registered the authors â under the 
forms of their names as given in the manuscript, regardless of whether they 
already had entries under shorter versions of their names â and left it at 
that, registering neither the manuscript nor the nomenclatural acts.)

_Conclusion:_ Article 8.5.3 is not fulfilled. Therefore, the names 'Ubirajara' 
and 'U. jubatus' are not available at present â amd if the journal never 
prints the paper, they never will be.

"Not available", as a reminder, means that the ICZN treats the names as not 
existing. They do not compete for synonymy or homonymy; SMNK PAL 29241 is not 
currently a type specimen and could be made the type of another name in the 
future.