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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore, Singapore

    Frank E. Rheindt

  2. IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland

    Frank E. Rheindt

  3. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Singapore, Singapore

    Frank E. Rheindt, Shane T. Ahyong, Markus Bertling, Patrice Bouchard, Neal Evenhuis, Mark Harvey, Frank-T. Krell, Thomas Pape, Richard Pyle & Francisco Welter-Schultes

  4. Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia

    Shane T. Ahyong

  5. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Shane T. Ahyong

  6. Steering Committee, World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), Ostend, Belgium

    Shane T. Ahyong

  7. New South Wales Fisheries Threatened Species Scientific Committee, Sydney, Australia

    Shane T. Ahyong

  8. São Paulo State University – UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil

    Valter M. Azevedo-Santos

  9. Geomuseum der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Markus Bertling

  10. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Canada

    Patrice Bouchard

  11. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI, 96817-2704, USA

    Neal Evenhuis & Richard Pyle

  12. Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, WA, 6106, Australia

    Mark Harvey

  13. Division of Zoology, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor KM 46, Cibinong, 3 Science Center, Cibinong, 16911, Indonesia

    Mohammad Irham & Dewi M. Prawiradilaga

  14. Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO, 80205-5798, USA

    Frank-T. Krell

  15. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Thomas Pape

  16. Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66044, USA

    A. Townsend Peterson

  17. International Union of Biological Sciences Working Group on Taxonomy, Paris, France

    Richard Pyle

  18. Global Team for the Catalogue of Life, Leiden, Netherlands

    Richard Pyle

  19. Michigan State University Museum, 409 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Pamela Rasmussen

  20. North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society, Chicago, USA

    Pamela Rasmussen & Kevin Winker

  21. University of Göttingen, Wilhelmsplatz 1, 37073, Göttingen, Germany

    Francisco Welter-Schultes

  22. University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA

    Kevin Winker

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Rheindt, F.E., Ahyong, S.T., Azevedo-Santos, V.M. et al. Response to O’Connell et al. (2020): There are multiple ways to adapt taxonomy to conservation goals. Biodivers Conserv 30, 249–251 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02086-3

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