#Wolfgangwuster

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ICZN Squashes alleged sex offender Wolfgang Wuster!

Case with global ramifications is hailed as a major victory in favour of wildlife conservation and in the battle against scientific fraud and taxonomic vandalism. Learn more at: http://www.smuggled.com/Snake-man-wins-ICZN-Case-3601.htm In a ruling dated 30 April 2021, the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) issued a long-awaited judgement and ruling in favour of leading scientist, Raymond Hoser. Better known as The Snakeman, Raymond Hoser has blue ribbon scientific credentials, having been at the forefront of wildlife research and discovery for more than 50 years. The case arose when a renagade university lecturer in Wales, Wolfgang Wuster hatched a plot to override the 200 year set of rules governing scientific research, discovery and naming organisms, in favour of his own doctrine, later labelled "The Kaiser veto", in honour of his criminal co-conspirator Hinrich Kaiser. The plan, first hatched in 2009 was to simply steal works from other scientists, rename species and then to claim discovery of those species. It was simply an act of personal self-gratification on a grand scale. To that end, Wuster and his gang of thieves commenced naming species previously named by other scientists. To further cement their names in history, Wolfgang Wuster shopped his idea to other gullable scientists with the promise that if they stole "name authority" from a list of targetted authors, Wuster's group would ensure that their names would be used instead of the legitimate ICZN names. To that extent, they engaged in high level SEO (known better as search engine optimisation) to ensure that the Wuster names appeared in Google searches for correct names and that the correct names did not. The gang hijacked Wikipedia and other reference sites online and posted their rubbish there and blocking corrections. They also targetted vulnerable journals such as the PRINO (peer reviewed in name only) online journal Zootaxa by getting members of their group into editorial positions to allow their non-science papers stealing works from others (without citing them) to be published. Wuster et al. also engaged in so-called "Negative SEO" to attack and tarnish the reputations of the scientists they had targetted to steal work from and whom they intended "taking the glory" for their earlier discoveries. While Snakeman Raymond Hoser was clearly the main target, due in part to his repuation as powerhouse when it came to the rapid discovery and naming of new species, making him the most prolific discoverer of new species in the last 100 years, there were other targets, including Richard Wells and Ross Wellington, two eminent Australians who have discovered more species and genera in Australia that anyone else in history, Bill McCord, a turtle expert from the USA, and a few of the great scientists from the 1800's such as Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters and John Edward Gray, with the list of targetted authors increasing as the years went by. The flow of so-called scientific papers stealing works from earlier authors and illegal renaming species grew steadily over the following years so that by 2021, there had been nearly 100 species and genera of reptiles renamed illegally as seen in the list here. Snakeman Raymond Hoser, the first and main target of the Wuster gang's act of "name authority" theft took the matter to the ICZN in 2012, after Wuster illegally renamed the genus Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 as Afronaja. The 2012 date is significant as Hoser pointed out to the ICZN that if they did not act against the Wolfgang Wuster problem then, that it would get worse. Also in 2012, Wuster's first draft of a document, later rebranded as "Kaiser et al. 2013", was shopped to thousands of other reptile experts (herpetologists) seeking they sign on as "coauthors" in order to give the publication "more weight". Shopping for coauthors has become a signature tactic by Wuster and the cohort. In spite of thousands of people being inbited to sign on as coauthors, Wuster eventually only managed to get six close friends to join his call to arms to attack and destroy the ICZN. The ICZN refused to act in 2012, citing the fact that at that stage the Wuster war cry document, later rebranded as Kaiser et al. 2014, had only been circulated by email and not actually published. However this changed in 2013, when the rambling diatribe was published in hard copy. The ICZN decided to allow Raymond Hoser to submit a case for consideration in terms of the actions by Wuster. In the first instance, Wuster falsely alleged that the journal Hoser had been publishing his recent papers in, namely the Australasian Journal of Herpetology (AJH), was not published in hard copies and was therefore not legal in terms of the rules of the ICZN. Independent inquiries by the ICZN secretariat scuttled Wuster's lies and at that point their claims became ever more outlandish. Early claims that Hoser's works were unscientific evaporated after a group of molecular biologists confirmed that all of Hoser's discoveries were in fact legitimate. Kaiser et al. 2013 formalised the Wuster position as one of usurping the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature in favour of Wuster's gang dictating whose names should be used for what species. Wuster and the gang did with some success even indueced people outside of herpetology to similarly engage in taxonomic vandalism! Taxonomic vandalism is the renaming of species already named and then dishonestly promoting the new and illegal name as the correct one. It is the lowest form of activity for a scientist or wannabe scientist who deals with the naming of species. Wuster and the cohort changed their position more often than a criminal lawyer trying to get a guilty man off a murder charge, but in the end nothing could hide what they really stood for. They simply wanted to steal "name authority" from others and falsely claim discoveries for things they had not discovered. This became very self-evident in private facebook posts by Wuster and criminal co-conspirators like Mark O'Shea, a small, irrational and erratic, rodent-like man from the Midlands in the UK. In the end the ICZN decided that Hoser was right in all ways and that his journal and papers had been published in the normal way and were wholly compliant with the rules of the ICZN. The ICZN confirmed that the Hoser names have priority over the nearly 100 names coined by the Wuster gang. In line with Hoser's original case submission, the ICZN agreed that it was unusual for them to have to deliberate on a publication that was clearly valid in all ways and to that extent they did not have to invoke their so-called plenary power to rule on anything, as the staus quo was self evident. The status quo of course was that the Hoser names were valid under the rules of the Code and assuming they identified valid species (which was not in contention) they sould be used in preference to those of the Wuster gang. The Wuster gang's multiple applications to have the ICZN use their plenary powers to formally suppress and effectively ban Hoser's publications, was almost unanimously rejected by the commission, who also made scathing comments about Wuster's ridulous ambit claims. Significantly, and over many years, Wuster, O'Shea and others in the cohort, including Scott Thomson and Wulf Schleip, admitted that their attempt to break up the ICZN, destroy the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, or to get the ICZN to vote for their own self-destruction was a long shot. Taxonomic vandalism, including theft of "name authority' as practiced by the Wuster cohort has already caused species extinction and has enormously negative wildlife conservation consequences as detailed in a series of peer reviewed papers in 2019. Because Wuster and his cohort have attacked musem databases worldwide with their taxonomic vandalism the ICZN ruling in Case 3601 will have global ramifications in that Museums and others will have to correct their species lists to be in line with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Numerous scientists have already hailed the ICZN determination as the only logical and sensible ruling available to the ICZN and a great day for wildlife conservation globally. Raymond Hoser said "Lets hope that Wuster does not make good his repeatedly published threats to seek to destroy the ICZN and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, if they ruled against him, which is exactly what they did." Meanwhile the Queensland Museum in Australia has been one of the first to formally commence erazing the illegal Wuster gang names from their records, including making sure that their Reticulated Pythons are properly labelled Broghammerus Hoser, 2004, intead of the later illegally coined Wuster gang name "Malayopython". Next on the Queensland Museum chopping block is Indotyphlops, which is a coined junior synonym of Maxhoserus Hoser, 2012, that happens to be the world's smallest species of snake. It is worth noting that Wuster's cohort have put blocks on dozens of Wikipedia hate pages and vandalized other pages to prevent them being corrected in a last ditch attempt to subvert the ruling against them by the ICZN and to try to fool others that their illegally coined names are in fact the correct ones. The Wolfgang Wuster gang also includes misfits such as a two convicted child sex offenders, a man convicted of stealing a snake from a wildlife display, a wildlife displayer convicted of shooting a potential client, a convicted drug user and trafficker, Jamie Benbow and of course the notorious con man, David John Williams, convicted of wildlife and animal cruelty offences.

[snakemanaustralia]

Taxonomic vandalism Wolfgang Wuster and his gang in the form of about 70 illegally coined names for species, genera and family of reptile.  Taxonomic vandalism by Wolfgang Wuster and his gang of thieves is about the most insidius and ant-science thing a person can do. It wastes time of proper zoologists dealing with illegally coined names and diverts them from more important wildlife conservation and scientific works. Herpetology and reptile science is the victim of this dirty work. Members of his gang of thieves include Scott Thomson, Mark O’Shea, Hinrich Kaiser, Blair Hedges, Van Wallach, Jane Melville, Wulf Schleip, Alex Pyron, Travis Thomas and Arthur Georges. Learn more here at http://www.smuggled.com/scientific-fraud-wolfgang-wuster.htm

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Wolfgang Wuster with taxonomic vandalism, fraud and other serious crimes.

Wolfgang Wuster, Taxonomic vandalism, fraud, misconduct and illegal activity.

Wolfgang Wuster, serial criminal and a history of lies, frauds and criminal misconduct.

In the period 1998 to 2020, Welsh Pseudo Academic Wolfgang Wuster has engaged in a career defining campaign against the over 200 year old Zoological Code by engaging in repeated acts of fraud, lies, deception, theft, thuggery and extreme taxonomic vandalism. Wuster has taken it upon himself to undo the work of thousands of zoologists over the past two centuries by laying to waste the Zoological Code that governs all zoologists and the naming of all species of animals, ranging from giant Whales to microscopic organisms. The genesis of Wuster's campaign was in 1998 when he decided to defend a friend's fraudulent claims against Zoologist Raymond Hoser, after they were publicly exposed by another Zoologist, Neil Davie. In 1998, Hoser an Australian-based Zoologist formally described a new species of King Brown Snake from north-east Australia, naming it Pailsus pailsei. Notwithstanding the fact that Hoser's description was thorough and there was never any credible doubt that Hoser had defined a previously unnamed species, a Mr David John Williams published three versions of a paper claiming that Hoser's new species was fictitious and merely an underfed Mulga Snake (Pseudechis australis). Williams is a serial wildlife smuggler, with criminal convictions for both wildlife smuggling and aggravated animal cruelty. He was also a close friend of Wuster, who also has a long history of committing unspeakable acts of animal cruelty to reptiles. Williams had been adversely named in two of Hoser's nine books, namely Smuggled:The underground trade in Australia's Wildlife published in 1993, and the sequel, Smuggled-2:Wildlife trafficking, crime and corruption in Australia published in 1996. The Williams claims against the new Hoser species was a clear act of revenge against Hoser for publishing details of his nefarious past in the two books. Wuster took up the challenge on behalf of Williams and extended it to include all scientific papers of Hoser spanning a period of many decades. To this end, Wuster edited numerous online reptile databases to falsely assert that no Hoser-named species were valid. This included cases where other independent herpetologists had confirmed the Hoser species. Furthermore, even when molecular data was produced confirming the Hoser species, Wuster would still publish that the species were "non-taxa" and that they shouldn't be recognized by others. Wusters campaign against Hoser's species became ever more desperate and obsessive as the number of species named by Hoser grew over the decade commencing year 2000, and other scientists validated each and every one of the Hoser-named species and genera, as the years went by. In 2012, Wuster reversed his previous decades denials to claim that Hoser's descriptions were valid and that because Hoser had named "too many' species, that himself and his friends should have the right to dispense with the established Zoological Code, administered by the International Commission For Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and rename the same species in honour of his own friends and relatives. Wuster and his friends, known as the Wuster gang, extended their hit list of taxa to include hundreds of genera and species as named by authors spanning more than a century, including the late Fitzinger's species named in the 1800's. Against this backdrop of rule breaking, taxonomic vandalism and seeking to turn the nomenclature of reptiles and other animals into chaos, Wuster spent more than a decade stalking the internet peddling lies about Hoser and others who supported him. Wuster often posted under false names and user ID's to masquerade his warped view of the world as being widely accepted, when it wasn't. In one case, Williams and Wuster tried to defraud the Accor Hotels chain of many thousands of dollars through the creation of several thousand fake ID's. Their scam was exposed when the hotel chain found "votes" for an allegedly unsung hero, the wildlife smuggler, David Williams, all coming from the same IP address. In another case, Wuster's close friend, the amateur snake handler, Wulf Schleip decided to invent 3 species of python in a paper he published in a journal in a place in which he was an editor. Bypassing any credible peer review or quality control (as is standard for Wuster and his papers), Schleip committed an act of taxanomic vandalism and scientific fraud by falsely claiming he had DNA evidence in support of his new species, when in fact he did not. His paper was an example of the evidence-free taxonomy that pollutes zoology and potentially endangers species by wasting the time of others who are diverted to clean up the taxonomic and nomenclatural mess he has created. More significantly, after the fraud of Schleip was exposed by the globally recognized herpetologist Raymond Hoser, Wulf Schleip and associates, Wolfgang Wuster and Mark O'Shea embarked on yet another hate campaign against Hoser, falsely accusing him of the very dishonesty, fraud and misconduct and taxonomic vandalism Schleip himself had been engaged in. This included hate articles in so-called journals which they edited or had editorial control, in order to bypass any credible review or quality control, as well as online campaigns on Facebook and internet forums, including the liberal use of bogus accounts and the like. The details of Schleip's original fraud and taxonomic misconduct in terms of the invention of three non-existent species can be found in the paper: Hoser, R. T. 2009. Creationism and contrived science: A review of recent python systematics papers and the resolution of issues of taxonomy and nomenclature. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 2 (2009):1-34. Available online here: http://www.smuggled.com/AJHI2.pdf Wuster himself has also over the decade commencing 2000, repeatedly engaged in the frowned upon act of plagiarisation of other scientists work. Notably Wuster has plagiarised several of Hoser's papers in his own later papers, to masquerade Hoser's work and discoveries as his own. The plagiarisation of Hoser's work on an industrial scale by Wuster has included papers on the following species: Death Adders (Acanthophis), King Brown Snakes (Cannia), Taipans (Oxyuranus), Brown Snakes (Pseudonaja) and others. In 2009, in conjunction with his close friends, Van Wallach and Don Broadley, Wuster committed the reprehensible scientific fraud of renaming a genus of African Cobras previously named by Hoser. Besides engaging in fraud and the morally repugnant act of theft of someone else's intellecxtual property, the three men also put lives at risk by their deliberate creation of nomenclatural and taxonomic confusion in these medically significant snakes. The details of that paper are here: Hoser, R. T. 2012. Exposing a Fraud! Afronaja Wallach, Wuster and Broadley 2009, is a junior synonym of Spracklandus Hoser 2009! Australasian Journal of Herpetology 9:1-64.. Wuster and his good friend, the angry little man, Mark O'Shea were also culpably responsible for the premature death of snake expert Luke Yeomans, the details of which can be found in this paper: Hoser, R. T. 2012. Yeomansus: A New Genus for the Slender Racer (Serpentes:Colubridae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 14:3-5. A good outline of a failed smear campaign by Wuster can be found in this paper: Hoser, R. T. 2012. Robust taxonomy and nomenclature based on good science escapes harsh fact-based criticism, but remains unable to escape an attack of lies and deception. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 14:37-64. A more complete history of Wuster's career defining acts of fraud and misconduct spanning the 15 years from 1998 to 2013 including numerous acts of taxonomic misconduct can be found in a 2013 paper published in hard copy and later online here: Hoser, R. T. 2013. The science of herpetology is built on evidence, ethics, quality publications and strict compliance with the rules of nomenclature. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 18:2-79. This paper also details acts of fraud, misconduct and repeated criminal activities by other members of the Wuster gang, including Mark O'Shea, Brian Crother, Wulf Schleip, Hinrich Kaiser and David John Williams.

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Taxonomic vandalism in herpetology - key references as of 2019.

REFERENCES 

Baig, K. J., Wagner, P., Ananjeva, N. B. and Böhme, W. 2012. A morphology-based taxonomic revision of Laudakia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Agamidae). Vertebrate Zoology 62(2):213-260.

Bates, M. F., Michael, F., Tolley, K. A., Edwards, S., Davids, Z., Da Silva, J. M. and Branch, W. R. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the African plated lizards, genus Gerrhosaurus Wiegmann, 1828 (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera. Zootaxa (online) 3750(5):465-493.

Bates, M. F. and Broadley, D. G. 2018. A revision of the egg-eating snakes of the genus Dasypeltis Wagler (Squamata: Colubridae: Colubrinae) in north-eastern Africa and south-western Arabia, with descriptions of three new species. Indago 34(1):1-95.

Bucklitsch, Y., Böhme, W. and Koch, A. 2016. Scale Morphology and Micro-Structure of Monitor Lizards (Squamata: Varanidae: Varanus spp.) and their Allies: Implications for Systematics, Ecology, and Conservation. Zootaxa (online) 4153(1):1-192.

Cann, J. 1998. Freshwater Turtles of Australia. Beaumont Publishing, Singapore:292 pp.

Cann, J., McCord, W. and Joseph-Ouni, M. 2003. Emmott's short-neck turtle, Emydura macquarii emmotti ssp. nov. pp. 60-61 in McCord, W., Cann, J. and Joseph-Ouni, M. (Ed.) A taxonomic assessment of Emydura (Testudines: Chelidae) with descriptions of new subspecies from Queensland, Australia. Reptilia, 27:59-63.

Commonwealth of Australia (Government) 2000. Commonwealth Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000. 39 pp.

Demangel Miranda, D. 2016. Reptiles en Chile. Fauna Nativa Ediciones, Santiago, Chile:619 pp.

Denzer, W., Manthey, U., Mahlow, K. and Böhme, W. 2015. The systematic status of Gonocephalus robinsonii Boulenger, 1908 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae). Zootaxa 4039(1):129-144.

Denzer, W., Manthey, U., Wagner, P. and Böhme, W. 2016. A critical review of Hoser’s writings on Draconinae, Amphibolurinae, Laudakia and Uromastycinae (Squamata: Agamidae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 64(2):117-138.

Erens, J., Miralles, A., Glaw, F., Chatrou, L. W. and Vences, M. 2016. Extended molecular phylogenetics and revised systematics of Malagasy scincine lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107:466-472.

Figuero, A., McKelvy, A. D., Grismer, L. L., Bell, C. D. and Lailvaux, S. P. 2016. A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus. PLOS One (online), 7 December. Online at: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161070 Grismer, L. L., Wood, P. L., Grismer, J. L., Quah, E. S. H., Thy, N., Phimmachak, S., Sivongxay, N., Seateun, S., Stuart, B. L., Siler, C. B., Mulcahy, D. G., Anamza, T. and Brown, R. M. 2019.

Geographic structure of genetic variation in the Parachute Gecko Ptychozoon lionotum Annandale, 1905 across Indochina and Sundaland with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa (online) (July) 4638(2):151-198.

Hedges, S. B., Marion, A. B., Lipp, K. M., Marin, J. and Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49:1-61.

Hoser, R. T. 1999. Herpetology in Australia - Some Comments. Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society Incorporated 10(2/3):113-118.

Hoser, R. T. 2000. A Revision of the Australasian pythons. Ophidia Review 1:1-27.

Hoser, R. T. 2004. A reclassification of the Pythoninae including the description of two new

genera, two new species and nine new subspecies. Crocodilian: Journal of the Victorian Association of

Amateur Herpetologists 4(3):31-37 and 4(4):21-40.

Hoser, R. T. 2007. Wells and Wellington - It’s time to bury the hatchet. Calodema Supplementary Paper 1:1-9.

Hoser, R. T. 2009a. Creationism and contrived science: a review of recent python systematics papers and the resolution of issues of taxonomy and nomenclature. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 2:1-34.

Hoser, R. T. 2009b. A reclassification of the True Cobras; species formerly referred to the genera Naja, Boulengerina and Paranaja. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 7:1-15.

Hoser, R. T. 2012a. Exposing a fraud! Afronaja Wallach, Wuster and Broadley is a junior synonym of Spracklandus Hoser, 2009. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 9:1-64.

Hoser, R. T. 2012a. Three new species of Stegonotus from New Guinea (Serpentes: Colubridae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 12:18-22.

Hoser, R. T. 2012b. Divisions of the Asian colubrid snake genera Xenochrophis, Dendrelaphis and Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 12:65-76.

Hoser, R. T. 2012c. A review of the taxonomy of the living Crocodiles including the description of three new tribes, a new genus, and two new species. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 14:9-16.

Hoser, R. T. 2012d. Robust taxonomy and nomenclature based on good science escapes harsh fact-based criticism, but remains unable to escape an attack of lies and deception. Australasian

Journal of Herpetology 14:37-64.

Hoser, R. T. 2012e. A review of the extant scolecophidians (“blindsnakes”) including the formal naming and diagnosis of new tribes, genera, subgenera, species and subspecies for divergent taxa. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 15:1-64.

Hoser, R. T. 2013a. Tidying up the taxonomy of the extant Booidea, including the erection and naming of two new families, the description of Acrantophis sloppi sp. nov., a new species of Ground Boa from Madagascar and Candoia aspera iansimpsoni, subsp. nov., a new subspecies of Boa from Papua New Guinea. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 16:3-8.

Hoser, R. T. 2013b. An updated taxonomy of the living Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys Gray,

1856), with descriptions of a new tribe, new species and new subspecies. Australasian Journal of

Herpetology 16:53-63.

Hoser, R. T. 2013c. Stopping the shuffle between families: Six new Colubroid snake families named. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 17:3-21.

Hoser, R. T. 2013d. The science of herpetology is built on evidence, ethics, quality publications and

strict compliance with the rules of nomenclature. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 18:2-79.

Hoser, R. T. 2013e. Chrismaxwellus: A new genus of Colubrid snake from south-west Africa. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 20:26-29.

Hoser, R. T. 2013f. A revised taxonomy for the Lizard Families Gerrhosauridae and Cordylidae. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 21:3-32.

Hoser, R. T. 2013g. Monitor lizards reclassified with some common sense (Squamata: Sauria: Varanidae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 21:41-58.

Hoser, R. T. 2013h. A new egg-eating snake from the southern Arabian Peninsula (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae:Colubrinae:Boigini). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 21:59-63.

Hoser, R. T. 2013i. Case 3601: Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE):

request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation

of the journal in which it was published. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70(4):234-237.

Hoser, R. T. 2014. A logical new taxonomy for the Asian subfamily Draconinae based on obvious phylogenetic relationships and morphology of species (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae: Draconinae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 22:9-59.

Hoser, R. T. 2015a. Dealing with the “truth haters” ... a summary! Introduction to Issues 25 and 26 of

Australasian Journal of Herpetology. Including “A timeline of relevant key publishing and other events

relevant to Wolfgang Wüster and his gang of thieves.” and a “Synonyms list”. Australasian Journal

of Herpetology 25:3-13.

Hoser, R. T. 2015b. The Wüster gang and their proposed “Taxon Filter”: How they are knowingly

publishing false information, recklessly engaging in taxonomic vandalism and directly attacking the rules

and stability of zoological nomenclature. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 25:14-38.

Hoser, R. T. 2015c. Best Practices in herpetology: Hinrich Kaiser’s claims are unsubstantiated.

Australasian Journal of Herpetology 25:39-52.

Hoser, R. T, 2015d. Comments on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE):

request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural

validation of the journal in which it was published (Case 3601; see BZN 70: 234-237; comments BZN

71:30-38, 133-135). (unedited version) Australasian Journal of Herpetology 27:37-42.

Hoser, R. T. 2015e. PRINO (Peer reviewed in name only) journals: When quality control in scientific publication fails. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 26:3-64.

Hoser, R. T. 2015f. Rhodin et al. 2015, Yet more lies, misrepresentations and falsehoods by a

band of thieves intent on stealing credit for the scientific works of others. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 27:3-36.

Hoser, R. T. 2015g. A revision of the genus level taxonomy of the Acontinae and Scincinae, with the creation of new genera, subgenera, tribes and subtribes. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 28:1-64 and 29:65-128.

Hoser, R. T. 2015h. Australian agamids: Eighteen new species from the genera Amphibolurus Wagler, 1830, Lophognathus Gray, 1842, Rankinia Wells and Wellington, 1984, Diporiphora Gray, 1842, Tympanocryptis Peters, 1863, as well as three new genera and six new subgenera. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 30:37-64.

Hoser, R. T. 2016a. Acanthophis lancasteri Wells and Wellington, 1985 gets hit with a dose of Crypto! … this is not the last word on Death Adder taxonomy and nomenclature. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 31:3-11.

Hoser, R. T. 2016b. A re-evaluation of the Crocodile Skinks, genus Tribolonotus Duméril and Bibron, 1839 sensu lato including the division of the genus into three, description of three new species, a new subspecies and the placement of all within a new tribe. Australasian Journal of Herpetology, 32:33-39.

Hoser, R. T. 2016c. A new subspecies of Daraninagama robinsonii (Boulenger, 1908) from the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (Squamata: Sauria: Agamidae) and a critical review of a critical review. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 32:53-60.

Hoser, R. T. 2017. Taxonomic vandalism by Wolfgang Wüster and his gang of thieves continues. New names unlawfully coined by the rule-breakers for species and genera previously named according to

the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 35:57-63.

Hoser, R. T. 2018a. A divided Gehyra makes sense! Assigning available and new names to

recognize all major species groups within Gehyra Gray, 1834 sensu lato (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and the formal description of nine new species. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 37:48-64.

Hoser, R. T. 2018b. A significant improvement to the taxonomy of the gecko genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 sensu lato to better reflect morphological diversity and ancient divergence within the group. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 38 (August):6-18.

Hoser, R. T. 2018c. A revised taxonomy of the gecko genus Ptychozoon Kuhl and Van Hasselt,

1822, including the formal erection of two new genera to accommodate the most divergent taxa and description of ten new species. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 38 (August):19-31.

Hoser, R. T. 2018d. A revised taxonomy of the gecko genera Lepidodactylus Fitzinger, 1843,

Luperosaurus Gray, 1845 and Pseudogekko Taylor, 1922 including the formal erection of

new genera and subgenera to accommodate the most divergent taxa and description of 26

new species. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 38 (August):32-64.

Hoser, R. T. 2019a. 11 new species, 4 new subspecies and a subgenus of Australian Dragon Lizard in the genus Tympanocryptis Peters, 1863, with a warning on the conservation status and long-term survival prospects of some newly named taxa. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 39:23-52.

Hoser, R. T. 2019b. Richard Shine et al. (1987), Hinrich Kaiser et al. (2013), Jane Melville et al. (2018 and 2019): Australian Agamids and how rule breakers, liars, thieves, taxonomic vandals and law breaking copyright infringers are causing reptile species to become extinct. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 39:53-63.

Hutchinson, M. N., Donnellan, S. C., Baverstock, P. R., Krieg, M., Simms, S. and Burgin, S. 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38(5):535-554.

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