Naming animals in images – a new guide to the process

The application of Open Nomenclature terms for indicating various degrees of species identification, such as aff., cf., inc., sp., ... has always remained unclear, until now. A new open-access paper has now come out which provides guidelines for providing names to image-based species identifications and for naming species that are (likely) new to science, but not yet formally described. As OBIS, we are looking forward to more consistent use of these terms.