Our lab was working on a genus of invertebrate (taxonomic revisions and phylogeny). Suddenly we see a preprint in Research Gate, which has one of the new taxa attempted to be described that we are currently working on.
Interestingly the preprint is an unfinished manuscript which is still under review, but had a DOI number.
Is this ethical to do?, as we feel that this is clearly a research misconduct to prevent others from working on the taxa?