When (animal) type genus is a subgenus

[Barry Roth]

To be fair, there is a "chain of typology" (the type of a family is a genus, the type of a genus is a species, the type of a species is a specimen) which means that even the higher categories are ultimately grounded in what the type specimen happens to be.  Perhaps this is what the writer had in mind.

Barry


  "Margaret K. Thayer" <mthayer at FIELDMUSEUM.ORG> wrote:
At 12:00 AM 26-04-2001 -0400, Ron Gatrelle wrote:
>All,
> All valid and available names are "always" affixed to an individual
>specimen - the name bearing type. ...

This is true at the level of species-group names, but NOT at higher
levels! The type of a genus-group name is a nominal species, and the type
of a family-group name is a nominal genus. This is stated extremely
clearly in articles 67 and 63, respectively.


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