Over a dozen newly discovered Australian reptile species and subspecies get Indigenous scientific names.
7 October 2023
In major scientific news, Australia’s foremost reptile expert, Snakeman Raymond Hoser has recently published a series of scientific papers formally discovering and naming dozens of new species of Australian lizard.
Including species from all Australian states and mainland territories, the newly discovered species include skinks, dragons and geckos.
Besides the sheer number of newly named species, also significant is the fact that numerous taxa have been given scientific names in honour of Australian Aboriginal people.
Included are species named in honour of tribes, while others are named in honour of notable indigenous individuals.
Raymond Hoser has been a pioneer in terms of giving indigenous names to newly discovered species for some years. Not only has Raymond Hoser discovered and named more species of Australian reptile or frog than anyone else in history, but he has also given more species Aboriginal names than any other scientist as well.
Among the many species recently named is the spectacular dragon lizard from western New South Wales, Calotella wiradjuri Hoser, 2023, the exquisite burrowing skinks Eremiascincus gudjal and Eremiascincus yolngu from north Queensland and the Northern Territory respectively, among a whole cohort of skinks given Aboriginal names, as well as a number stunningly patterned geckos named in honour of individuals or tribes.
In 2020, Hoser formally named a top end tree frog Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi in honour of NT Aboriginal man Kumanjayi Walker who was executed by a racist NT Cop, Zachary Rolfe.
Hoser’s pioneering work in naming new species in honour of Aboriginals and their tribes is an important step in the recognition of Indigenous Australians and their important links to Australian wildlife, as well as bringing that recognition to the global scientific community.
Hoser’s recognition of the first Australians in science has not gone unnoticed.
Hoser was copied in more ways than one when in mid 2023, two pseudo scientists Danielle Edwards and Mark Hutchinson generated a pile of news reports with their “newly discovered lizard species” that they gave Aboriginal names to.
Unfortunately their act was nothing more than tokenism and a lie, as all the relevant species had been previously discovered and named by Hoser in 2020 (three years earlier).
The act of illegally renaming species in breach of the Australian Copyright Act 1968 and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Ride et al. 1999), the latter being the rule book that binds all scientists, government departments and laws, is known as Taxonomic Vandalism.
Besides being illegal, taxonomic vandalism is in fact a waste of time and diverts scientists from their important work to have to fix up the mess created by the taxonomic vandals. The newer names are always junked in favour of the older ones, being the ICZN rule of priority, which underpins all of the biological science.
After all, only one person can actually discover something and when a discovery is dated and registered, it is hard to argue with.
Newer names, created by acts of taxonomic vandalism, do have a dubious form of permanence in that they end up on so-called synonyms lists of invalid names!
Danielle Edwards and Mark Hutchinson engaged in taxonomic vandalism because their act was deliberate, rather than inadvertent, which otherwise would have simply been a mistake or an act of incompetence.
Hoser says it is disgusting that people pretending to be scientists can generate a raft of fake news stories claiming to have named species in honour of Aboriginals, while at all times knowing that their alleged species are not and that their indigenous names must be junked in favour of earlier legal names.
This week Hoser said “Being exterminated by the Anglo Saxons was bad enough for the Aboriginals, but deliberately creating fake aboriginal scientific names that will also be also be exterminated is an egregious act”.
Fortunately the genera and species Hoser has named in honour of Aboriginals, this being more than a dozen to date, will not be wiped from the permanent scientific record.
In each case Hoser was first to discover and name the relevant species and therefore those Aboriginal names will remain a part of the formal scientific record.
In 2020, Damien Esquerré, Steve Donnellan, Scott Keogh and Hussam Zaher, as part of the so-called Wolfgang Wuster gang, AKA Kaiser et al., allegedly discovered a new genus of python in northern Australia.
They gave it an Aboriginal scientific name “Narawan” and generated a heap of “good news” stories in the media about their “new discovery” and recognition of 40K years of Aboriginal language and culture. ... bla, bla, bla ....
But their discovery and tokenism was also all a lie.
Following a kerfuffle on the ICZN list, the cohort were forced to formally junk their name in favour of the correct scientific name, Nyctophilopython.
The genus was in fact discovered and named by eminent Australian scientists Richard Wells and Ross Wellington in 1985!
While speaking of Wells and Wellington, they too formally named new taxa in honour of Aboriginals and were lampooned at the time for doing so.
In fact one of their detractors, Geoff Monteith, a nasty white supremacist at the Queensland Museum, also part of the Wolfgang Wuster gang, went so far as to label Wells and Wellington “Terrorists”.
The pseudo scientists and fake reptile experts in the Wolfgang Wuster gang, (AKA Kaiser et al.) were formally rebuked by the ICZN in a scathing ruling in 2021. More recently the ICZN has unanimously condemned their actions of taxonomic vandalism in a series of peer reviewed papers.
Key members of the Wolfgang Wuster gang have also been found by the courts to have engaged in other serious criminal activity.
This includes Adam Britton who recently pled guilty in the NT Supreme Court of procuring people’s pet dogs for anal sex and then their brutal execution, the videos of which he then posted online, as well as trafficking in child pornography;
Bill Branch and Donald Broadly procuring black African boys for anal sex, Jamie Benbow, convicted in Victoria of drug trafficking, running over a person and making threats; another man in the cohort (“OP”, due to a suppression order he had put on his name), found in civil proceedings in Victoria to have raped women over 1,000 times as well as acts animal abuse and child abuse; Seth Pywell, of West Australia convicted of shooting people; David John Williams, convicted and fined in Cairns Magistrates Court for large-scale trafficking in protected wildlife and extreme animal cruelty and several others in the cohort engaged in serious criminal acts for which the courts have found them guilty, but for which suppression orders prohibit them being named here.
Finally it is worth noting that Snakeman Raymond Hoser has also been a leader in discovering and naming new species of reptiles in honour of indigenous peoples from other parts of the world as well, having named taxa in honour of native Africans, Asians and Pacific Islanders. To date Raymond Hoser has discovered and named more than 1,000 species of reptile, frog, mammal and fish.
Further information can be found at:
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or by phoning (Australia) 0412777211
An incomplete list of recently named Australian taxa with Aboriginal names.
Species
Calotella wiradjuri Hoser, 2023
Diplodactylus johnpati Hoser, 2023
Diplodactylus wongiorum Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus gudjal Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus yolngu Hoser, 2023
Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi Hoser, 2020
Subspecies
Eremiascincus isolepis jinigudera Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus foresti martu Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus musivus oculorum Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus pallida flavescentibus Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus intermedius yungman Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus richardsonii djaru Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus richardsonii yindjibarndi Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus richardsonii nyiyarparli Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus richardsonii baiyungu Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus richardsonii ngaanyatjarra Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus richardsonii pindiini Hoser, 2023
Eremiascincus richardsonii wiradjuri Hoser, 2023
Genus
Kumanjayiwalkerus Hoser, 2020
Subgenera
Johnpat Hoser, 2023
Yankunytjatjaragecko Hoser, 2023
Martugecko Hoser, 2023
Maralinga Hoser, 2023
Malgana Hoser, 2023
And for the record ....
The invalid name Ctenophorus tuniluki Edwards and Hutchinson, 2023 = C. maryannmartinekae (Hoser, 2020)
The invalid name C. ibiri Edwards and Hutchinson, 2023 = C. scottgranti (Hoser, 2020)
The invalid name C. cartiwarru Edwards and Hutchinson, 2023 = C. scottyjamesi (Hoser, 2020)
The invalid name C. tjakalpa Edwards and Hutchinson, 2023 = C. danielmani (Hoser, 2020)
The earlier 2020 names (on right) should be used.
Further information of relevance and interest ...
On 8 May 2023, ABC "science reporter Genelle Weule" published a fake news article claiming discovery of a new species of gecko discovered by pseudo scientist Conrad Hoskin, a member of the Wolfgang Wuster gang of thieves mentioned above.
The fake news story claimed discovery of a species of gecko he chose to name Oedura elegans Hoskin, 2019, and rambled on about his great scientific work in discovering and formally naming the species in eastern Australia.
The story was fake news, because everything significant in it was obviously false!
The relevant species had in fact been discovered and named by Raymond Hoser in 2017. Therefore the correct scientific name was and still is, Marlenegecko shireenhoserae Hoser, 2017.
Rather than conducting any significant science, Hoskin in fact had merely engaged in an act of theft by stealing the earlier work of Hoser and appropriating the earlier scientific discovery to himself.
Both Hoskin and the so-called science reporter at the ABC were well aware of these facts at the time of writing the fake news article and when she was contacted by several herpetologists and told of the error, she made it clear that 1/ She was well aware of the fact that the species had been previously named by Hoser in 2017 and that 2/ They knew they were engaging in fraud and taxonomic vandalism at all times and 3/ She and the ABC had no intention of removing the article, or correcting it, even though she knew it breached the Australian Copyright Act, 1968 and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 1999, which binds all scientists, governments and law-enforcement agencies, and 4/ The man who had anal sex with dogs and executed them, Adam Britton was part of the cohort who published an online ramble in 2021 telling people to use the Hoskin name instead of the ICZN priority name of Hoser in an article which advocated people disobey the law in all relevant matters. In that article, Wuster, Britton and the other law breakers in the cohort, said their law-breaking antics (and quite evidently including sex with dogs, drug trafficking, raping women and children, animal abuse and cruelty, etc, should be copied by others). Significantly the ABC reporter referred to this very publication and a similar earlier one by the same cohort as justification for her own illegal acts.
Following the formal commencement of legal proceedings in relation to the fake news article later in 2023 by the Snakeman, Raymond Hoser, via a "concerns notice" in conjunction with another matter before the courts involving the ABC, the ABC agreed in full to remove the relevant fake news story and not to reinstate it in any similar form. This was part of a wider court settlement involving a number of matters including defamation (mainly), trademarks and copyright.
The relevant fake news story by Genelle Weule was also highly defamatory of eminent Australian herpetologists Richard Wells and Ross Wellington in that it made numerous false allegations against them, as well as similar false claims against Snakeman Raymond Hoser.
Known as "the the R's in Australian herpetology", Richard Wells, Ross Wellington and Raymond Hoser have been the dominant force in Australian herpetology and scientific discovery with regards to Australian reptiles and frogs for the last 40 years.
Wells and Wellington have named most Australian genera, meaning about 1 in 2 species in Australia in effect carry a Wells and Wellington name in some form, making them the most prominent reptile scientists in Australian history. The pair have also named over 100 species. Snakeman Raymond Hoser has only named a small number of Australian genera, but some quite prominent ones, including Charlepiersonserpens Hoser, 2012 for the Green Tree Snakes, Melvillesaurea Hoser, 2015 for a distinctive dragon genus and Abbasaurum Hoser, 2022, for a distinctive group of southern Australian skinks. However Hoser has named way more Australian species (over 250), than anyone else in Australian history, being about 1 in 6 of the total. He's also discovered and named over 450 species of reptile from outside of Australia.
The removal of the fake news story from the ABC platform, peddling a non-ICZN name for the species discovered and named by the Snakeman Raymond Hoser was a significant setback for the Wolfgang Wuster gang of thieves.
What is disappointing however is that the ABC and their rogue reporter refused to remove the article, knowing it was false, defamatory and against wildlife conservation in Australia when made aware of their errors, published in full knowledge of these facts and chose in the first instance to rely on their positions of power to lie, defame and destroy.
It was only when an appearance in court on the matter appeared imminent that they backed down and chose to remove the story that they knew should never have ever been published.
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