Getting Raymond Hoser The Snake ManTaxonomic Vandalism:

Fake Science, fraud: Chris Helgen and his gang of thieves, Sydney, Australia has been caught out falsely claiming discovery of new glider sub-species when in fact his cohort have stolen the work and discoveries from other people's previously published scientific papers!

Cris Helgen, claiming to be Dr. Cris Helgen and currently employed at the government-owned, taxpayer funded museum in Sydney has recently published a paper with a cohort of fellow thieves, including the notorious Kenny Travouillon, claiming to have discovered new subspecies of rare marsupial in Australia.
The gang have cited the long-discredited Kaiser et al. (2013) rant as justification and have openly and publicly defied the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the authority of the ICZN, the world's peak body of biologists and zoologists and effectively called for the destruction of both.
This is yet another example of the Wolfgang Wuster / Hinrich Kaiser anarchy of overwriting names for improper purposes gathering steam with gullible supporters and the ongoing threat to science and zoology should not be ignored.
Significant is that this action of defiance against the code and the ICZN is the first involving mammals and shows that the Kaiser Code-wrecking example of getting others to do what his cohort wants is gathering traction, as non-scientists see theft of the works of proper ethical scientists as a short cut to gaining “name authority” for species, rather than actually doing research and finding a new unnamed form to name.
The correct name for the Wet-tropics Yellow-bellied Glider is Petaurus australis adelynhoserae Hoser, 2020 and it is significant that Snakeman Raymond Hoser first brought attention to this endangered and divergent form in a major paper, that was published during the Covid-19 lock downs in year 2020.
The illegally coined non ICZN name Petaurus australis brevirostrum Cooper, Travouillon and Helgen, 2023 should not be used.
In their online (PRINO) non-peer reviewed paper coining the new name, the authors repeated numerous false and long discredited claims against Snakeman, Raymond Hoser to attempt to justify their heinous action of taxonomic vandalism, while quite audaciously accusing Snake Man of this very act (taxonomic vandalism). Of course, when Raymond Hoser formally named Petaurus australis adelynhoserae Hoser, 2020, there was no renaming of anything, so clearly no act of taxonomic vandalism took place.

A pdf copy of the peer reviewed Hoser (2020) paper can be downloaded from the link posted below:
Hoser, R. T. 2020. A new subspecies of Yellow-bellied Glider (Marsupialia: Petauridae) from far north Queensland, Australia. Australiasian Journal of Herpetology 42:38-41.

The name illegally coined by the Helgen cohort in 2023 is not it seems, even available for zoological nomenclature as it was published online only (as far as can be made out) and was NOT registered with Zoobank (as of 18 Aug 2023), meaning it was not registered when published in January 2023 (7 months earlier), that being the original date of publication of the Helgen gang paper.
This fact is also confirmed by the absence of both Zoobank registration numbers on the relevant online paper and in Zoobank itslelf (invariably seen in other online papers that come from the Australian Museum).
ICZN Rules published by the ICZN in 2012, make it mandatory for Zoobank registration of all new names published electronically, meaning that the Helgen gang paper is in breach of these rules and therefo, their illegally coined name is unavailable for zoological nomenclature.
Of relevane also is that former curators at the Australian Museum in Sydney are mortified at the dishonest and unscientific actions of Helgan and others in the cohort.
Dr. Allen A. Greer, one of the most highly regarded zoology taxonomists in Australia, recently resigned from that facility, a museum that was until recently held in the highest of esteem.
Greer resigned in disgust at the “Unscientific” actions at the Australian Museum and has publicly published this fact.
Greer said:
"I had become so disillusioned with the Museum’s attitude to science that I resigned."
Another former curator at the Museum, also a former deputy director, Dr. Harrold G. Cogger publicly condemned the taxonomic vandalism of Wuster and the gang in 2014 in his major work, Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia.
Scientists and fake scientists actively seek grants and funding from government and philanthropic societies to enable them to continue to engage in their "discovery" work. Obviously claiming to have "discovered" something like a beautiful and potentially endangered subspecies of gliding possum is the sort of thing a scientist or fake scientist wants to put on the cirriculum vitae, it it will likely sway grants funding bodies in the competitive grants getting "business".
More than ten years earlier, the notorious Wolfgang Wuster pubicly stated that he wanted to overwrite "Hoser names" so he could claim more discoveries and therefore get more grants to fund his lavish and wasteful globe-trotting lifestyle.
Self-evidently, faking scientific discovery of species and subspecies is one of the more sinister aspects of grants fraud that most of the public are never made aware of.

RAYMOND HOSER is the world’s foremost reptile expert . He has been single-handedly leading the way in saving the world’s most threatened and endangered species.

Raymond Hoser, is The Snakeman.
He has been a leader in science and conservation of wildlife for over 50 years.
He is known to pretty much everyone in the wildlife space as the leader in the fight to save rare and threatened species.
For decades he has been making important scientific discoveries and breakthroughs that have literally saved dozens of species from extinction.
In the 1980’s he was the first to mass breed snakes using methods that are now standard practice globally.
Hoser was also the first to mass breed snakes and lizards using artificial insemination using a method now used by zoos and private breeders across the planet.
Hoser was the first to dramatically improve the welfare of venomous snakes in captivity by developing a pain free way to surgically remove venom glands from snakes, thereby removing risk of venomous bite to handler and the need to attack them daily with sticks and tongs for wildlife shows.
Hoser has also appeared on countless TV wildlife documentaries, worked behind the scenes in many more, authored nine major books, contributed to dozens of others, authored hundreds of major peer reviewed scientific papers, collaborated with other scientists in countless scientific projects, publications and the like, got countless major awards, prizes and the like for his works, including an award two years running from the International Herpetological Society in the UK for best scientific paper published the previous year, and was also the first person on the planet to successfully develop dog snake avoidance training to protect people's canine pets from venomous snakebite.
But where the snakeman has become best known in recent decades is for his stellar work in discovering and cataloguing new species of reptile from across the planet.
Over decades, he has discovered and formally named hundreds of species of snake and lizard from all parts of the globe, as well as a smattering of species such as snapping turtles in the USA and Australia, frogs, crocodiles, fish, spiders and even over 20 mammals. In fact the Snakeman Raymond Hoser is often described as a taxonomist powerhouse in view of the sheer volume of species he has managed to discover and name.
Of course no species can be conserved by people if it is unknown to science and this is exactly why Hoser has been so keen to catalogue the planet’s threatened biodiversity.
While how many species a person has discovered and named is not the only measure of the work done by a zoologist, it is one way to do so and is widely used. On that measure, Hoser easily outclasses all others in the reptile space. In fact no one has ever discovered and named as many species of reptile as Snakeman Raymond Hoser.
George Boulenger of the British Museum in the 1800's and 1900's was thought to have had an unassailable lead in terms of number of reptile species discovered and named by one person, until unexpectedly, Snakeman Raymond Hoser surpassed his total in around 2023.
For those wondering why Hoser has become famous for naming new species, it is simple really. The names of Hoser, as regulated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature of the species appear in all relevant books and scientific paper and next to each scientific name is published the name of the discoverer, called name authority, and the year in which they published it. So in most books reptile the name Hoser appears throughout!
Back in the 1800’s it was easy for scientists to discover and name new species as the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus devised the current system of nomenclature in the late 1700’s. So back then everything was fair game to be scientifically "discovered" and named for the first time. Since about 1900, all the easy to discover vertebrates had been named and it really did take a lot of work to go into the wilds to find and name new species.
Hoser has also been criticized for naming so many species by a vocal minority in the reptile space. The general jist has been along the lines that by naming species, he is depriving others of the right. Hoser’s retorts are simple, “go find something and name it … even with reptiles, there are thousands of unnamed species still out there”.
Furthermore, Hoser says that if he delays naming the relevant species, they may well become extinct, while others dither over them.
In fact this has already occurred!
In 2016, Hoser formally named about 10 new species of Pacific Boa (Candoia) in a major monograph. By then however some were already probably extinct as feral animals, such as mongoose, had exterminated them on the islands they’d previously occurred on.
More recently, Hoser has been victim of a new form of scourge attacking the wider zoological community.
This is taxonomic vandalism.
To the uninformed, this is when a so-called scientist deliberately renames a species that already has a scientific name and then in breach of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, tries to get the illegally coined name used instead of the correct one.
In 2013, Hoser discovered and named a species of Forest Cobra from west Africa. Five years later a Welsh university lecturer, named Wolfgang Wüster illegally renamed it with his own coined name, falsely claiming to have discovered the species.
The damage caused by Wüster’s taxonomic vandalism cannot be understated as the species is dangerous to humans and confusion in identification can and will cause avoidable deaths.
Hoser says, pseudo-scientists and anti-scientists like Wuster are not only putting lives at risk, but wasting time of genuine scientists like himself who then have to waste time correcting their deliberate mistakes. This is time that could be better spent doing other things, including cataloguing other as yet unnamed species!
In years past it was difficult to ascertain whether or not a given potential new species had been named by another scientist. However now there are excellent so-called synonyms lists available and this makes the job of identifying unnamed species much easier and is one of the reasons that Hoser has been able to name so many new species.
Hoser said “If I wasn’t so tied up with my other critically important work doing educational wildlife displays, including kids reptile parties, I could go out and name over 1,000 more reptile species within a few short years, if only I had the time to do so”.
Hoser hopes other scientists and scientists in training engage in the science of naming species and not just for reptiles, because as of 2018, most of the planet’s biological diversity remains unnamed and therefore at greater risk of extinction.
However Hoser warns, “If taxonomic vandals like Wolfgang Wuster are allowed to get away with stealing the works of others and then illegally renaming the same species, this will seriously deter conservation-minded people from putting in the necessary effort to discover and name new species in the first place”.
In 2018, Wolfgang Wüster simply lifted the work of the Hoser (2013) paper and repackaged it as his own in an online PRINO Journal called Zootaxa. PRINO is an acronym for the words, peer reviewed in name only, which is exactly how the online journal Zootaxa works.
The improper claim of formal peer review is made to enhance the alleged credibility of the paper by the taxonomic vandal, Wuster.
The International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), who govern scientific names of animals, have had a serious problem in dealing with online journals such as Zootaxa which by using the online model, now make it easier for taxonomic vandals like Wuster to spread their toxic non-science more widely.
Wüster and his cohort, haven't just decided to steal the works of Raymond Hoser and falsely claim it as his own. His gang of thieves have attacked the works of dozens of other scientists, including the late John Edward Gray of the British Museum, who died about 150 years ago and therefore cannot defend his works from being stolen by Wuster's gang.
Fortunately other scientists will defend the science of zoology and have already taken steps to stop Wuster and like minded thieves from disrupting the science of taxonomy and the associated work of conservationists.
For example in 1991, in a near unanimous decision, the Wuster gang was stopped in their tracks by the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) trying to illegally rename hundreds of species and genera discovered and named by eminent Australian scientists Richard Wells and Ross Wellington, but this has not stopped his gang from still trying to do so.
In other words, taxonomic vandalism as practiced by Wolfgang Wuster will not only cause scientists like Raymond Hoser grief and time wasted, but also cause the extinction of species and even the science powerhouse Raymond Hoser cannot stop that!

Taxonomic vandalism on steriods - download from here a near complete list of dozens of illegally coined names by the Wolfgang Wuster gang of thieves dated Feb 2020 and the correct senior synonym names for each species, genus or family.

Raymond Hoser is the Snakeman. Details of his work here.

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15 May 2018 - Conservation of species: Why discovering and naming them is the critically important first step ...

28 April 2018 - Spectacular new species of large spiky lizard discovered in the Mount Isa area. ...

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