: Zoonom: unicity

unicity

One of the qualities that a nomenclatural system should have: there should exist a single nomenclatural system for all organisms. This aim is currently not reached, as several distinct codes exist for different kinds of organisms (animals, plants, bacteria, viruses, and even cultivated plants). It is unlikely that these codes will ever be unified under a single nomenclatural system as the botanical and zoological codes have been in force for about one century, millions of nomina have been stabilized according to these respective codes, and homogenizing them would necessarily entail major changes in one group of organisms or in both. It is however necessary to stop at this point, and not to continue a process of subdivision of the codes that was illustrated for example in zoology by the introduction of a particular kind of “name-bearing types”, the hapantotypes, for “protistans”. The risk would be to have a particular code for every group of organisms, i.e. for every community of “specialists”, which would be a threat against the unity of biology. (Dubois 2005c)

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