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Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses? -A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021)
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- 1. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany
- 2. Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia, and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia
- 3. Viale Venezia 45, Brescia, Italy
- 4. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
- 5. Paris-Lodron-University, Hellbrunner Strasse 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 6. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany & M.Espeland@leibniz-zfmk.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6800-4783
- 7. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany & B.Huber@leibniz-zfmk.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7566-5424
- 8. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany & X.Mengual@leibniz-zfmk.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6185-9404
- 9. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany & Museu Nacional-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 10. Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany & ralph_peters@hotmail.com, R.Peters@leibniz-zfmk.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-9203
- 11. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil
- 12. Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Colorado, U.S.A.
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Ahrens, Dirk, Ahyong, Shane T., Ballerio, Alberto, Barclay, Maxwell V. L., Eberle, Jonas, Espeland, Marianne, Huber, Bernhard A., Mengual, Ximo, Pacheco, Thaynara L., Peters, Ralph S., Rulik, Björn, Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando, Wesener, Thomas, Krell, Frank-Thorsten (2021): Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses? -A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021). Zootaxa 5027 (2): 151-159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5027.2.1
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