Appendix A: Code of Ethics


  1. Authors proposing new names should observe the following principles, which together constitute a "Code of Ethics".
  2. A zoologist should not publish a new name if he or she has reason to believe that another person has already recognized the same taxon and intends to establish a name for it (or that the taxon is to be named in a posthumous work). A zoologist in such a position should communicate with the other person (or their representatives) and only feel free to establish a new name if that person has failed to do so in a reasonable period (not less than a year).
  3. A zoologist should not publish a new replacement name (a nomen novum) or other substitute name for a junior homonym when the author of the latter is alive; that author should be informed of the homonymy and be allowed a reasonable time (at least a year) in which to establish a substitute name.
  4. No author should propose a name that, to his or her knowledge or reasonable belief, would be likely to give offence on any grounds.
  5. Intemperate language should not be used in any discussion or writing which involves zoological nomenclature, and all debates should be conducted in a courteous and friendly manner.
  6. Editors and others responsible for the publication of zoological papers should avoid publishing any material which appears to them to contain a breach of the above principles.
  7. The observation of these principles is a matter for the proper feelings and conscience of individual zoologists, and the Commission is not empowered to investigate or rule upon alleged breaches of them.


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FranciscoWelterSchultes   No. 4

This point has the status of a recommendation and could partly be transferred to the legal section of the Code. If there are good reasons to bring forward why a name causes offence, for example if a species was named after Hitler, it should be possible to initiate a suppression of that name. This would concern a few outstanding cases, which were discussed on the [iczn-list] mailing list in June 2015. The reputation of zoological nomenclature suffers if the community cannot deal with such cases.
2015-06-14 18:16:42

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