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The Australian Journal of Herpetology (AJH) was a scientific journal on the study of amphibians and reptiles published from 1981–1983 and in 1985. It was peer-reviewed periodical originally published by the Australian Herpetologists' League. Richard Wells, a student, served as the journal's editor-in-chief, with a editorial board of three researchers. In the "Wells and Wellington affair", Wells stopped communicating with his board for two years before publishing three unreviewed papers in the AJH, coauthored with teacher C. Ross Wellington. The papers reorganized the taxonomy of Australia's and New Zealand's amphibians and reptiles, and proposed over 700 changes to the scientific names. The herpetological community brought a case to the ICZN to suppress the new names, but the commission eventually opted not to decide, leaving some of Wells and Wellington's names available. As of 2020, 24 of the new names remained valid senior synonyms. (Full article...)