Response to the Point of View of Gregory b. Pauly, David m. Hillis, and David c. Cannatella, by the Anuran Subcommittee of the Ssar/hl/asih Scientific and Standard English Names List

@inproceedings{Frost2009ResponseTT,
  title={Response to the Point of View of Gregory b. Pauly, David m. Hillis, and David c. Cannatella, by the Anuran Subcommittee of the Ssar/hl/asih Scientific and Standard English Names List},
  author={Darrel R. Frost and Roy W. Mcdiarmid and Joseph R. Mendelson},
  year={2009}
}
Abstract The Point of View by Gregory Pauly, David Hillis, and David Cannatella misrepresents the motives and activities of the anuran subcommittee of the Scientific and Standard English Names Committee, contains a number of misleading statements, omits evidence and references to critical literature that have already rejected or superseded their positions, and cloaks the limitations of their nomenclatural approach in ambiguous language. Their Point of View is not about promoting transparency in… 
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