Formality of Latin description -reply

[Robin Leech]

What makes anyone think that simply because a description is in Latin
that it will be any better?  It may be worse.  Ensuring a holotype, and
then peer review of the description in a refereed journal, should remove
99% of problems.

An editor of a recognized journal (e.g., The Canadian Entomologist) is
obligagted to ensure that the ICZN (for animals) is followed (upon advice
from the 2 associate editors who handle taxonomic papers), and though it
is unlikely that a new species of plant would be described in Can. Ent.
(but it is possible), that the ICBN (for plants) is followed.

Robin Leech