Dear all, most of us heave heard the sad news of wildlife conservation icon, Dr. Richard Funk's death this week, arising from terminal cancer complications. Most readers already know, Dr. Funk, who has more letters after his name than there are letters in the alphabet (with more degrees, higher degrees and the like than anyone else I ever met), was one of the world's foremost herpetologists and reptile veterinary surgeons. His legacy of scientific discovery is too much to list here, but on top of this is the fact that he was one of the best human beings out there. His friendliness and enthusiasm for wildlife was infectious and has spurred countless others to join the conservation and research cause. While he was alive, he was honoured with 8 genera and 7 species named in his honour, including some really iconic taxa. They are all ICZN recognized and as recently as 2011 the ICZN ruled against an application by the Wolfgang Wuster gang of thieves to suppress these taxa and they instead decided to confirm the validity of all these names. One of the genera named in honour of Richard Funk was the iconic African lizard genus Funkisaurus, Hoser, 2013. Recently the anti-scientist group known as the Wolfgang Wuster gang of thieves have attempted to destroy Funk's legacy and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, all at the same time, by illegally coining a junior synonym name Broadleysaurus for the same genus. They have propagated this through outlets they control, including Peter Uetz's dodgy "The reptile database", Wikipedia and so on. The notorious Don Broadley, is best known for his regular procurement of little black boys under the age of ten from rural Zimbabwe to satisfy his perverted sexual fetishes, who also happened to masquerade as a herpetologist while not engaged in his other illegal activity. It is absolutely despicable that before Dr. Funk is even buried and remembered, that Mark O'Shea, Hinrich Kaiser and others in the Wuster gang are actively calling for Funkisaurus to be "suppressed" in favour of the illegally coined Broadleysaurus, named in honour of a notorious child sex predator, which is not only an illegally coined junior synonym name, but also breaches the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (several sections). As I mentioned already, on 30 April 2021, the ICZN ruled that Funkisaurus is the correct nomen and that Broadleysaurus is illegal, so please make sure no one tries to give the Wuster gang or their anti-science manifesto "Kaiser et al." any credibility, via use of the illegal name, as simply it deserves none! The ICZN has ruled this as well! The image is of hard copies of Australasian Journal of Herpetology, issue 12, published in 2012 which features Dr. Funk on the cover, holding some venomoid Australian Death Adders, which he had certified as 100% safe, refuting false claims by the notorious Mark O'Shea and Wolfgang Wuster that the snakes had somehow defied the laws of nature and regenerated their venom glands after removal. Below I list all the official ICZN recognized taxa named in honour of Dr. Richard Funk, as listed on Zoobank at: https://zoobank.org/Search?search_term=Funk Family Group Funkiacrochordidini Hoser, 2014 Funkisaurusiini Hoser, 2013 Funkiskinkiina Hoser, 2015 Genus Group Funkelapidus Hoser, 2012 Funkiacrochordus Hoser, 2014 Funkichelys Hoser, 2021 Funkikukri Hoser, 2012 Funkisaurus Hoser, 2013 Funkiskinkus (Forestaescincea) Hoser, 2015 Funkiskinkus (Marmolejoscincus) Hoser, 2015 Funkiskinkus (Veracruzscincus) Hoser, 2015 Funkiskinkus Hoser, 2015 Funkityphlops Hoser, 2012 Funkus Hoser, 2012 Species Group Australiasis funki Hoser, 2012 (python snake) Funkichelys funki Hoser, 2021 (turtle) Funkiskinkus dixoni Hoser, 2015 (lizard) Funkiskinkus funki Hoser, 2015 (lizard) Macrocerastes funki Hoser, 2013 (African viper) Odatria funki Hoser, 2014 (monitor lizard) Paracrinia funki Hoser, 2020 (frog) Sayersus funki Hoser, 2016 (rattlesnake/ pitviper) Thank You Raymond Hoser Australia 28 Aug 2022
