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EDITORIAL Renaming taxa on ethical grounds threatens nomenclatural stability and scientific communication

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Ceríaco, Luis M P, Aescht, Erna, Ahyong, Shane T, Ballerio, Alberto, Bouchard, Patrice, Bourgoin, Thierry, Dmitriev, Dmitry, Evenhuis, Neal, Grygier, Mark J, Harvey, Mark S, Kottelat, Maurice, Kluge, Nikita, Krell, Frank-T, Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Kullander, Sven O, Lucinda, Paulo, Lyal, Christopher H C, Pyle, Richard L, Rheindt, Frank E, Luisa Scioscia, Cristina, Welter-Schultes, Francisco, Whitmore, Daniel, Yanega, Douglas, Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, Zhou, Hong-Zhang, Pape, Thomas (2023): EDITORIAL Renaming taxa on ethical grounds threatens nomenclatural stability and scientific communication. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197 (2): 283-286, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac107, URL: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/197/2/283/6994476

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