Global Species List Working Group
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| Formation | 2020 |
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| Headquarters | Darwin, Australia & Paris, France |
| Membership | 21 national members |
| S. T. Garnett | |
Associate Coordinators | Les Christidis, Stijn Conix, Mark Costello, Kevin Thiele, Frank Zachos |
| S. A. Thomson | |
| vacant | |
| Website | www.iubs.org |
The Global Species List Working Group (GSLWG) is a non-profit organization and non-governmental organization, founded in 2020, developed under the umbrella of the IUBS with the aim of creating a governance system that imbues global taxon lists with a legitimacy and authority respected by both taxonomists and the users of taxonomy. The organization was developed in response to several publications that demonstrated the need for stability in the names of species.[1] The founding meeting was held in Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia in January 2020.
The initial impetus for the group arose from an opinion piece published in the journal Nature by Stephen Garnett and Les Christidis.[2] This piece aroused backlash within the taxonomic community with fears of unnecessary governance being proposed on the science of taxonomy.[3] In a response with 184 authors led by Scott Thomson and Richard Pyle discussion followed. Efforts to reconcile the differences of opinion was made and four authors of these two pieces came to a consensus in the formulation of a new approach to the stabilization of species nomenclature.[1]
