changing honorific epithets

[Amelie Scheltema]

          Dear Doug Yanega,

          In the case of honorifics in the older literature, the
          ending double -ii indicated the masculine genitive from a
          latinized name ending in -ius.  Thus schaumii 1852 was
          probably named for Schaum (not someone called Schaumi),
          latinized to Schaumius.  There is an instance of this in the
          ICZN decision for _Dorymenia sarsii_, in which the ICZN
          decided against emendation to _sarsi_, as the correct
          original spelling was _sarsii_, based on the latinization of
          Sars to Sarsius. (Bull. zool.  Nom. 1981, 38(3): 185-186).
          The ICZN verified that indeed _sarsii_ was the original
          spelling.

          The original spelling is thus the correct one, which you
          would have to look up.

          Amelie Scheltema
          e-mail: rscheltema at whoi.edu
          Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
          Woods Hole, MA 02543