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Hi all. While writing the "Yunyangosaurus" entry for The Theropod Database, I noticed Dai et al.'s (2020) paper describing it has no mention of ZooBank. ICZN Article 8.5.3. states names published electronically must "be registered in the Official Register
of Zoological Nomenclature (ZooBank) (see Article 78.2.4) and contain evidence in the work itself that such registration has occurred." So this obviously fails, and the name doesn't show up in ZooBank either. Normally that solves itself eventually by the
physical publication of the journal volume, but "Yunyangosaurus" was described in Scientific Reports. As far as I can tell, Scientific Reports has no actual volumes, just a huge list of articles every year, which would suggest it is not physically published.
Is this so? And if so, doesn't that indicate that Dai et al. 2020 will never be valid under the ICZN and that something else needs to be done by the authors to fix this?
Mickey Mortimer
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