[Zoobank-list] First experiences with Zoobank website

[geiger at vetigastropoda.com]

I just want to convey some of my first experiences with ZooBank. 

I heard about the web-site being on-line on August 8. I submitted that day two
names from a recent paper with URL link to pdf (Sasakiconcha elegantissima n. gen
& sp. Geiger, 2006) with a couple of querries:

1) Is "pagination" request for publication or for taxon, taxon-pagination being a
subset of publication-pagination?

2) How do I correct an error in Zoobank? ZooBank has incorporated a typo from one
of my pubs (date for publication of Scissurellidae Gray, 1847 [not 1827]).

3) How do I enter names by other authors?

4) How do I view larger lists?

Today, Sept. 3 I received the first reply, telling me how to address 4) but
leaving 1-3 untouched. The new names are not yet available in ZooBank. GenBank
(which seem to me to be quite a bit more complicated, e.g., checking for AA's in
coding sequencing) does it usually in a month or less. When I have asked GenBank
for some help with searches, I received a full reply the next day.

I am seriously underwhelmed with ZooBank. My fears of a sluggish operation have
been fully borne out.

just my 2c. Best wishes

Daniel

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Daniel L. Geiger, Ph.D.
Research Curator of Electron Microscopy
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History - Invertebrate Zoology
2559 Puesta del Sol Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
USA

phone (805) 682 4711 x152
fax (805) 563 0574
geiger at vetigastropoda.com
www.vetigastropoda.com

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