Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

• Scott A. Thomson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scott.thomson321@gmail.com (SAT); deepreef@bishopmuseum.org (RLP)

  Affiliations Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Chelonian Research Institute, Oviedo, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1279-2722

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• Richard L. Pyle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scott.thomson321@gmail.com (SAT); deepreef@bishopmuseum.org (RLP)

  Affiliations Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawai‘i, United States of America, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore

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• Shane T. Ahyong,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Marine Invertebrates, Australian Museum, New South Wales, Australia, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia

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• Miguel Alonso-Zarazaga,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

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• Joe Ammirati,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Juan Francisco Araya,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Universidad de Atacama, Copiapó, Chile, and Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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• John S. Ascher,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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• Tracy Lynn Audisio,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

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• Valter M. Azevedo-Santos,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Ictiologia, Departamento de Zoologia, IBB-UNESP Campus de Botucatu, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Nicolas Bailly,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FishBase Information and Research Group, IRRI Campus, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

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• William J. Baker,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, United Kingdom

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• Michael Balke,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, München, Germany

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• Maxwell V. L. Barclay,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Russell L. Barrett,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Australian National Herbarium, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Ricardo C. Benine,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Ictiologia, Departamento de Zoologia, IBB-UNESP Campus de Botucatu, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

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• James R. M. Bickerstaff,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

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• Patrice Bouchard,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ontario, Canada

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• Roger Bour,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France

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• Thierry Bourgoin,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France

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• Christopher B. Boyko,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, Hofstra University, New York, United States of America

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• Abraham S. H. Breure,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Denis J. Brothers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa

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• James W. Byng,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Plant Gateway Ltd., Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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• David Campbell,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, Gardner-Webb University, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Luis M. P. Ceríaco,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Villanova University, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• István Cernák,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Potato Research Center, Georgikon Faculty, University of Pannonia, Keszthely, Hungary

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• Pierfilippo Cerretti,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologia 'Charles Darwin', Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

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• Chih-Han Chang,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

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• Soowon Cho,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea

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• Joshua M. Copus,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i, United States of America

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• Mark J. Costello,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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• Andras Cseh,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Martonvásár, Hungary

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• Csaba Csuzdi,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, Hungary

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• Alastair Culham,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Herbarium, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Guillermo D’Elía,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

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• Cédric d’Udekem d’Acoz,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Mikhail E. Daneliya,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• René Dekker,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Edward C. Dickinson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: 19 Marlborough Court, East Sussex, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Ornithological Nomenclature Expert

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• Timothy A. Dickinson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Green Plant Herbarium, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Peter Paul van Dijk,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nomenclature Specialist, CITES Animals Committee; Turtle Conservancy, New York, United States of America, Global Wildlife Conservation, Texas, United States of America

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• Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Bálint Dima,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Biosciences (Plant Biology), Viikki Plant Science Centre, Helsinki, Finland

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• Dmitry A. Dmitriev,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois, United States of America

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• Leni Duistermaat,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• John P. Dumbacher,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Wolf L. Eiserhardt,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, United Kingdom

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• Torbjørn Ekrem,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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• Neal L. Evenhuis,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawai‘i, United States of America, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore

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• Arnaud Faille,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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• José L. Fernández-Triana,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ontario, Canada

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• Emile Fiesler,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioveyda Biodiversity Inventories and Research, California, United States of America

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• Mark Fishbein,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Ecology & Evolution and Herbarium, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Barry G. Fordham,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• André V. L. Freitas,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Natália R. Friol,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Uwe Fritz,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany

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• Tobias Frøslev,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Vicki A. Funk,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Stephen D. Gaimari,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food and Agriculture, California, United States of America

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• Guilherme S. T. Garbino,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation PPG Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• André R. S. Garraffoni,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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• József Geml,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Anthony C. Gill,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Alan Gray,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh Research Station, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Felipe G. Grazziotin,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Penelope Greenslade,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Management, School of Applied and Biomedical Science, Federation University, Victoria, Australia

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• Eliécer E. Gutiérrez,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations PPG Biodiversidade Animal, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Mark S. Harvey,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Western Australia, Australia

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• Cornelis J. Hazevoet,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museu Nacional da História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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• Kai He,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Xiaolan He,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Stephan Helfer,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Kristofer M. Helgen,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences and Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Anneke H. van Heteren,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, München, Germany

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• Francisco Hita Garcia,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

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• Norbert Holstein,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nees Institut für Biodiversität der Pflanzen, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Margit K. Horváth,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology, University of Pannonia, Keszthely, Hungary

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• Peter H. Hovenkamp,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Wei Song Hwang,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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• Jaakko Hyvönen,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biosciences (Plant Biology), Viikki Plant Science Centre, Helsinki, Finland, Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Melissa B. Islam,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

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• John B. Iverson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Earlham College, Indiana, United States of America

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• Michael A. Ivie,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Montana Entomology Collection, Montana State University, Montana, United States of America

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• Zeehan Jaafar,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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• Morgan D. Jackson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• J. Pablo Jayat,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Ambiente de Montaña y Regiones Áridas, Universidad Nacional de Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina

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• Norman F. Johnson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Martha N. and John C. Moser Chair in Arthropod Systematics and Biological Diversity, The Ohio State University, Ohio, United States of America

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• Hinrich Kaiser,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Victor Valley College, Victorville, California, United States of America

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• Bente B. Klitgård,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Identification and Naming Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, United Kingdom

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• Dániel G. Knapp,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Jun-ichi Kojima,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan

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• Urmas Kõljalg,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Jenő Kontschán,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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• Frank-Thorsten Krell,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

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• Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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• Sven Kullander,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, FishBase, Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Leonardo Latella,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Verona, Verona, Italy

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• John E. Lattke,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Paraná, Brazil

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• Valeria Lencioni,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sezione di Zoologia degli Invertebrati e Idrobiologia, MUSE-Museo delle Scienze di Trento, Trento, Italy

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• Gwilym P. Lewis,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, United Kingdom

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• Marcos G. Lhano,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Ambientais e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

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• Nathan K. Lujan,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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• Jolanda A. Luksenburg,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Virginia, United States of America

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• Jean Mariaux,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Natural History Museum of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jader Marinho-Filho,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

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• Christopher J. Marshall,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State Arthropod Collection, Oregon State University, Oregon, United States of America

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• Jason F. Mate,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Henares 16, Velilla de San Antonio, Madrid, Spain

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• Molly M. McDonough,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Ellinor Michel,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, International Committee on Bionomenclature, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Vitor F. O. Miranda,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, Jaboticabal, Departamento de Biologia Aplicada à Agropecuária, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Mircea-Dan Mitroiu,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Iași, Romania

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• Jesús Molinari,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

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• Scott Monks,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Morfología Animal, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Hidalgo, México, H.W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Abigail J. Moore,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Robert Bebb Herbarium (OKL), University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Biological Survey, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Ricardo Moratelli,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fiocruz Mata Atlântica, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Dávid Murányi,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary

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• Takafumi Nakano,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Science Education, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan

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• Svetlana Nikolaeva,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, Kazan Federal University, Kremlyovskaya, Russia

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• John Noyes,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Michael Ohl,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions-und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany

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• Nora H. Oleas,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático (BioCamb) e Ingeniería en Biodiversidad y Recursos Genéticos, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador

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• Thomas Orrell,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Integrated Taxonomic Information System, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Barna Páll-Gergely,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Martonvásár, Hungary

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• Thomas Pape,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Viktor Papp,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Lynne R. Parenti,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• David Patterson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Igor Ya. Pavlinov,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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• Ronald H. Pine,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Kansas, United States of America

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• Péter Poczai,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CITES Scientific Authority, Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Jefferson Prado,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Divakaran Prathapan,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Kerala Agricultural University, Kerala, India

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• Richard K. Rabeler,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Michigan Herbarium EEB, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• John E. Randall,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawai‘i, United States of America

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• Frank E. Rheindt,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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• Anders G. J. Rhodin,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chelonian Research Foundation, Massachusetts, United States of America, Turtle Conservancy, New York, United States of America

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• Sara M. Rodríguez,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

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• D. Christopher Rogers,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kansas Biological Survey and the Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Kansas, United States of America

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• Fabio de O. Roque,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

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• Kevin C. Rowe,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sciences Department, Museums Victoria, Victoria, Australia

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• Luis A. Ruedas,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Biology, Portland State University, Oregon, United States of America

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• Jorge Salazar-Bravo,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Texas, United States of America

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• Rodrigo B. Salvador,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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• George Sangster,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Carlos E. Sarmiento,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biología Comparada de Insectos, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Dmitry S. Schigel,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Stefan Schmidt,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, München, Germany

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• Frederick W. Schueler,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fragile Inheritance Natural History, Ontario, Canada

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• Hendrik Segers,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Focal Point to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

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• Neil Snow,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Pittsburg State University, Kansas, United States of America

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• Pedro G. B. Souza-Dias,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Riaan Stals,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agricultural Research Council, Plant Protection Research Institute, South African National Collection of Insects, Queenswood, South Africa

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• Soili Stenroos,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Finnish Museum of Natural History (Botany), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• R. Douglas Stone,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa

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• Charles F. Sturm,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Mollusks, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Pavel Štys,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Pablo Teta,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia', Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Daniel C. Thomas,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Parks Board, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore

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• Robert M. Timm,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Kansas, United States of America

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• Brian J. Tindall,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Committee on Bionomenclature, Braunschweig, Germany, Judicial Commission on Prokaryote Nomenclature, London, United Kingdom

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• Jonathan A. Todd,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Dagmar Triebel,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Botanische Staatssammlung München and SNSB IT Center, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, München, Germany, Permanent ICN Nomenclature Committee for Fungi, International Mycological Association

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• Antonio G. Valdecasas,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

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• Alfredo Vizzini,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy, Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante sez. di Torino, CNR, Torino, Italy

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• Maria S. Vorontsova,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, United Kingdom

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• Jurriaan M. de Vos,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Philipp Wagner,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Allwetterzoo Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Les Watling,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Hawai‘i, United States of America

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• Alan Weakley,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNC Herbarium (NCU), North Carolina Botanical Garden, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Francisco Welter-Schultes,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Abteilung Morphologie und Systematik der Tiere und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore

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• Daniel Whitmore,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Nicholas Wilding,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche, Peuplements Végétaux et Bioaggresseurs en Milieu Tropical, Université de La Réunion, Ile de La Réunion, France

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• Kipling Will,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Jason Williams,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Hofstra University, New York, United States of America

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• Karen Wilson,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation General Committee for Nomenclature [for algae, fungi and plants], Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, New South Wales, Australia

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• Judith E. Winston,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Smithsonian Marine Station, Florida, United States of America

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• Wolfgang Wüster,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Lab, School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

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• Douglas Yanega,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Department of Entomology, Entomology Research Museum, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• David K. Yeates,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Hussam Zaher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Guanyang Zhang,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center, Hasbrouck Insect Collection, Arizona State University, Arizona, United States of America

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• Zhi-Qiang Zhang,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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•  [ ... ],
• Hong-Zhang Zhou

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang District, P. R. China

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