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Formalizing invertebrate cryptic species descriptions: clarifying a pragmatic DNA-based and stable nomenclatural framework

2026

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Accelerating the description of invertebrate cryptic species is essential both for scientific understanding and for conservation. Molecular approaches have revealed a hidden diversity that remains largely unnamed and insufficiently integrated into biodiversity, ecology and conservation frameworks. To overcome this limitation, we proposed a framework for naming invertebrate cryptic species in a rigorous, verifiable, and revisable manner (), consistent with the ICZN and allowing for the formal description of lineages without the absolute requirement of DNA from historical types. [...]

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2026

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