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Note: The full text of the Drap BioCode has been published in Taxon 45(2): 349-372 (1 996), the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 53(3): 148- 166 (1996), and also separately by IUBS (1996). Electronic versions are available on:
Abstract The Need for New Bionomenclature David L. Hawksworth International Mycological Institute, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9TY, UK Need for a New Bionomenclature Biology is increasingly being unified and is no longer conceived as split into mutually exclusive disciplines of botany, microbiology and zoology. Concepts of kingdoms are in flux, so that opinions Vary as to the Codes to be used for certain groups, for example some protists and cyanobacteria. Even Fungi are now recognized as closest to Animalia. The current suite of Codes with disparate practices gives the impression of a fragmented and disorgan- ized subject, and makes nomenclature difficult to teach in unified courses. The current Codes have common problems to address, and this provides an opportunity for consistent approaches. The IUBS General Assembly of 1994 initiated the establishment of an International Cornmittee on Bionomen- clature, with the support of IUMS, to respond to the demand of users of names for an improved and harmonized system of bionomenclature for the future. This will simplifj procedures for both systematists and other users of names, be sensitive to the needs of developing countries, and facilitate common systems for the description, registration, and access'to names. Further, it will en- able a unified approach to be made to donor agencies for the ongoing support of the communication system of biology world-wide. Background The objective of this symposium is to promote debate as to the best method by which systematic biologists can address a problem that should never have existed: five systems of rules regulating the names of different categories of organisms. The circurnstance we have inherited is an historical accident, the redressment of which is long overdue. Linnaeus applied the binomial system of naming the living world he had ela- borated to animals as well as plants, although the details were explained most fully in the Philiosophia botanica of 175 1 (Stearn, 1959). This held sway for the first 100 years of binomial nomenclature. Zoologists were the first to de- velop a separate Code in 1843, but as noted at the time the intent was not to be devisive but "for the sake of rendering the question less cornplex, and because . . . botanical nomenclature stands in much less need of distinct enactment" (Melville, 1995). By the time botanists produced their first stand-alone system of rules at an international botanical congress in 1867 (De Candolle, 1867),
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