ZooBank
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thumb|350px|The taxon treatment for the frog Paedophryne amauensis, mentioning the LSID for this nomenclatural act. ZooBank is an open access website intended to be the official International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) registry of zoological nomenclature. Any nomenclatural acts (e.g. publications that create or change a taxonomic name) published electronically need to be registered with ZooBank prior to publication to be "officially" recognized by the ICZN Code of Nomenclature. Acts published in physical publications are encouraged, but not required to be registered prior to
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- biological database
- Founded by
- Richard L. Pyle
- Parent organization
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
- Official website
- zoobank.org
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- inception
- 2006-01-01
- language of work or name
- English language
- maintained by
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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- Electronic publications
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|350px|The taxon treatment for the frog Paedophryne amauensis, mentioning the LSID for this nomenclatural act. ZooBank is an open access website intended to be the official International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) registry of zoological nomenclature. Any nomenclatural acts (e.g. publications that create or change a taxonomic name) published electronically need to be registered with ZooBank prior to publication to be "officially" recognized by the ICZN Code of Nomenclature. Acts published in physical publications are encouraged, but not required to be registered prior to their publication.
Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs) are used as the globally unique identifier for ZooBank registration entries.
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