Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature

Nat Ecol Evol. 2023 Aug;7(8):1157-1160. doi: 10.1038/s41559-023-02022-y.

Patrícia Guedes^{1

2}, Fernanda Alves-Martins^{1

2}, Javier Martínez Arribas^{1

2}, Sumita Chatterjee^{1

2}, Ana M C Santos^{3

4}, Amir Lewin⁵, Longji Bako⁶, Paul W Webala⁷, Ricardo A Correia^{8

9}, Ricardo Rocha¹⁰, Richard J Ladle^{11

12}

¹ CIBIO-InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal.
² BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal.
³ Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG-UAM), Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.
⁶ A. P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Zoology Department, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria.
⁷ Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya.
⁸ Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁹ Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
¹⁰ Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹¹ CIBIO-InBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal. richardjamesladle@gmail.com.
¹² BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal. richardjamesladle@gmail.com.

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