From the editors: describing new taxa of unicellular protists.
Since its inception as The Journal of Protozoology, our Society journal has been an important venue for publication of new taxa. However, there has never been a formal style requirement for the components of descriptions of new taxa in The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology (The JEM). Our community has relied upon the articles and recommendations by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. The Fourth Edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), produced by the Commission, is available on-line at (http://www.iczn.org/ iczn/index.jsp). However, as the Society broadened the mandate of the journal from protozoology to eukaryotic microbiology, there is no compelling reason why new taxa cannot be described in our journal following the articles and recommendations of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) whose Vienna Code is also available on-line at (http://ibot.sav.sk/icbn/ main.htm). The elements of a description of a new taxon of unicellular protist are outlined below. We have tried to be as general as possible with the comments below. However, since our expertise is with the ciliated and flagellated protozoa, we invite comments from the readership to refine this document further.