NOMENCLATURAL, CURATORIAL, AND ARCHIVAL BEST PRACTICES fOR SYMBIOTYPES AND OTHER TYPE MATERIALS IN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Bradley, Robert D., Bradley, Lisa C., Honeycutt, Rodney L., Macdonald, Kathryn A., Amarilla-Stevens, Heidi N., Stevens, Richard D. (2020): NOMENCLATURAL, CURATORIAL, AND ARCHIVAL BEST PRACTICES fOR SYMBIOTYPES AND OTHER TYPE MATERIALS IN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS. Occasional Papers of the Museum 366: 1-20 ABSTRACT The emergence of several zoonotically-driven pandemics and near-pandemics (MERS, SARS, H1N1, Ebola, COVID-19, among others) over the last 20 years has placed an increasing emphasis on the importance of symbiotypes and the role of natural history collections, as virologic and human health studies are incorporating symbiotypes and host specimens as part of their research response.

Because designation of symbiotypes and host specimens involves natural history collections, there is a growing need for a discussion pertaining to the archival integration of information on symbiotypes, host specimens, and associated data in natural history collections. Furthermore, due to the involvement of specialized researchers, such as virologists and epidemiologists, there is an expanding portion of the zoonotic research community that is further removed from research practices involving the principles of nomenclature and the rules and standards governing the description of taxa new to science.