Preparation of the First Draft of Official List of Names in Ichthyology

本项目的目的是测试1999年第四版中添加的《动物命名法》新条款的有效性和实用性。这一新条款规定，一个学科的可用名称列表可以由国际委员会批准；之后，不在名单上的老名字将无法使用。这将极大地稳定动物命名法，节省工人大量时间。通过这个项目，所有最近鱼类的大约55,000个物种名称和近10,000个属名将被列入可用和不可用名称的草案清单。后一份名单将包括5,000-10,000个出现在被拒绝的作品（出版物）中的名字，没有描述（nomina nuda），或缺乏模式标本，从未使用过，并且无法识别。这些名称不包含任何信息内容，可以清除。利用现有的大量《鱼类目录》及其相关数据库，应该能够在一年内编制清单草案；这些草案将提供给社区以供评论和修改，并最终通过美国鱼类学和爬虫学家协会和国际动物命名委员会提供社区建议。这个项目将为系统学家和鱼类系统信息的用户节省大量的时间和精力。它可以成为其他大型学科希望使用这些法规条款来改进其他动物群体的系统分类的典范。

The purpose of this project is to test the effectiveness and utility of a new provision ofthe Code of Zoological Nomenclature added in the fourth edition in 1999. This new articleprovides that a list of available names in a discipline can be approved by theInternational Commission; older names not on the list are then made unavailable. This will greatlystabilize zoological nomenclature and save workers much time. Via this project, the ca. 55,000 species names and nearly 10,000 generic names of all Recent fishes will be placed on draft lists of available and unavailable names. The latter list will include between 5,000-10,000 names that appeared in rejected works (publications), without descriptions (nomina nuda), or lack type specimens, have never been used, and are unrecognizable. These names contain noinformation content and can be purged.Drawing on the massive, existing Catalog of Fishes and its associated databases, it should be possible to produce the draft lists within a year; the drafts would be made available to the community for comment and change, and eventual community recommendation via the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. This project that will save systematists, and the users of systematic information on fishes, a great deal of time and effort. It can be a model for other large disciplines wishing to use these code provisions for the improvement of the systematics of other groups of animals.