Taxonomic Vandalism - Grant Webster
Two amateur zoologists, masquerading as scientists have just bootlegged the work of Hoser (2020) to attempt to illegally rename the frog genus Wellingtondella Hoser, 2020, as Anstisia Webster and Bool, 2022. The two thieves even stooped so low as to cite the Wuster et al. (2012) rant, better known as Kaiser et al. (2013) as their justification. Recall the ICZN squashed that plan in 2021 by voting against Kaiser et al. and Rhodin et al. (2015). It goes without saying that the fake science was published in the notorious online PRINO (Peer reviewed in name only) "journal" Zootaxa! The lying thieves even went so far as stealing the work of Hoser (2020), relying on the same diagnostic characters as Hoser, but being so low as to not even cite the work from where they stole their alleged new discovery! If this is not the lowest form of fake science possible, then who knows what is? The Wuster gang of thieves continue to attack the ICZN and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and remain the biggest threat to the Code in over 200 years.
The original Hoser (2020) paper can be downloaded as pdf and is: Hoser, R. T. 2020. 3 new tribes, 3 new subtribes, 5 new genera, 3 new subgenera, 39 new species and 11 new subspecies of mainly small ground-dwelling frogs from Australia. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 50-51:1-128. available as pdf at: http://www.smuggled.com/AJH-I50-Split.htm
The Webster Bool shit piece in Zootaxa, published online on 14 June 2022 is cited as follows: Webster, G. N. and Bool, I. 2022. A new genus for four myobatrachid frogs from the South Western Australian Ecoregion. Zootaxa (PRINO) (Online) 5154(2):127-151. PS It is only published online and stashed behind a paywall in breach of sections of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (recommendations) and as it has NOT been fully registered with Zoobank, the ICZN Name repository (as of a day after publication online), it is not validly published according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (THE RULES for publishing online nomenclatural acts) and so besides being an invalidly coined junior synonym Anstisia is an unavailable name and should not be used!
PS Webster and Bool are effectively unknown in herpetology and have now merely identified themselves first and foremost as plagiarists and thieves.
PPS On his Facebook page, Webster has claimed his above referred to paper is the result of years of hard labour and work. Nothing could be further from the truth! It is merely a theft of the work of Snakeman Raymond Hoser, published 2 years prior. He did not tell any of his Facebook followers this critically important fact. The Hoser paper, being a two volume book monograph on the relevant group of frogs, was in fact the result of more than 50 years of intensive field and lab research on Australian frogs! On his Facebook page, Webster also lied in claiming he was the first person to name a frog in honour of well-known frog catcher, Marion Anstis. The species Mahonabatrachus marionanstisae Hoser, 2020 is a species of tree frog from Western Australia. The snake Walmsleyus anstisae Hoser, 2014 also formally named by Hoser in honour of Marion Anstis was named 8 years prior to Webster's unscientific incursion into herpetological taxonomy and nomenclature. Webster was well aware of both but lied to his friends and followers in pretending that they did not exist.