#zootaxa

In a ruling dated 30 April 2021, the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) issued a much anticipated judgement and ruling in favour of leading scientist, Raymond Hoser. Better known as The Snakeman, Raymond Hoser has blue ribbon scientific credentials, having been at the forefront of wildlife research and discovery for more than 50 years. The case arose when an evil, dishonest renagade university lecturer in Wales, Wolfgang Wuster hatched a plot to override the 200 year set of rules governing scientific research, discovery and naming organisms, in favour of his own doctrine, later labelled "The Kaiser veto", in honour of his criminal co-conspirator Hinrich Kaiser, who masquerades as an academic in the USA. The plan, first hatched in 2009 was to simply steal works from other scientists, rename species and then to claim discovery of those species. It was simply an act of personal self-gratification on a grand scale. To that end, Wuster and his gang of thieves commenced naming species previously named by other scientists. To further cement their names in history, Wolfgang Wuster shopped his idea to other gullable scientists with the promise that if they stole "name authority" from a list of targetted authors, Wuster's group would ensure that their names would be used instead of the legitimate ICZN names. To that extent, they engaged in high level SEO (known better as search engine optimisation) to ensure that the Wuster names appeared in Google searches for correct names and that the correct names did not. The gang hijacked Wikipedia and other reference sites online and posted their rubbish there and blocking corrections. They also targetted vulnerable journals such as the PRINO (peer reviewed in name only) online journal Zootaxa by getting members of their group into editorial positions to allow their non-science papers stealing works from others (without citing them) to be published. Wuster et al. set up a series of self-citation rings among his cohort to increase the idea that their illegal names were in fact correct. Wuster et al. also engaged in so-called "Negative SEO" to attack and tarnish the reputations of the scientists they had targetted to steal work from and whom they intended "taking the glory" for their earlier discoveries.

Dear all, I report on yet another case of taxonomic vandalism by the Wuster gang in one of their PRINO journals. The gang have coined yet two more junior synonyms of established names for genera named by Hoser in 2014 in their online blog journal called Zootaxa. Monilesaurus Pal et al. 2018 is an illegal junior synonym of Skrijelus Hoser, 2014. Microauris Pal et al. 2018 is an illegal junior synonym of Tamilnaducalotes Hoser, 2014. It goes without saying that the correct ICZN names are the 2014 names of Hoser (2014) and the other more recently coined names should be trashed into the synonyms bin along with the other several dozen odd coined Wuster gang names. The original 2014 descriptions of the said genera can be found in the major monograph here: Hoser, R. T. 2014. A logical new taxonomy for the Asian subfamily Draconinae based on obvious phylogenetic relationships and morphology of species (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae: Draconinae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 22:9-59. http://www.smuggled.com/AJH-I22-Split.htm Thank you. Snakeman

Meet #Coproica testudinea, a newly described species of Lesser Dung Fly (family #Sphaeroceridae). What makes this species particularly interesting is that is has only been found inside the burrows of Gopher Tortoises (#Gopherus polyphemus), and nowhere else! Gopher tortoises are listed as #vulnerable by the #IUCN, and so it's likely this fly is at least as at risk as it's reptilian host. This new species was just described last week by my friend and former labmate Matthew Bergeron in the journal #Zootaxa. (at University of Guelph Insect Collection)

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