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Hot on the heels of PLoS ONE -like open-access megajournals such as BMJ Open , Nature’s Scientific Reports , the Royal Society’s Open Biology and SAGE’s SAGE Open , now the king of evil predatory price-gouging publishers-whose-business-model-is-to-prevent-papers-being-read Elsevier are — you won’t believe this — launching their own PLoS ONE clone, FEBS Open Bio . So please join me in giving a

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Author Matt Wedel

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Author Matt Wedel

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As we all know, the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is a large and intimidating document.  As a result, zoologists naming new animals often do not read it in its entirety (I know I haven’t).  It’s probably because of this that many of the more avoidable nomenclatural mistakes occur.

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I recently stumbled across this rather good photograph of the holotype vertebra of our old buddy “ Ultrasauros ”, thanks to Wikipedia contributor Ninjatacoshell, and thought you’d like to see it: {.alignnone .size-full .wp-image-2933 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“2933” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2010/12/22/the-ultrasauros-holotype-vertebra/supersaurus_vivianae_dorsal_vertebra/”

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Author Darren Naish

SV-POW! is, as I’m sure you know, devoted to sauropod vertebrae. But occasionally we look at other stuff… and you might have noticed that, in recent months, we’ve been looking at, well, an awful lot of other stuff. I’m going to continue that theme here and talk about salamanders. Yeah: not sauropods, not sauropodomorphs, not saurischians, and not even dinosaurs or archosaurs. But salamanders. Don’t worry, all will become clear.