Undescribed species and the Internet

[Ron at]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Shear" <wshear at hams-hsc.HSC.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Undescribed species and the Internet


> Richard, would not this name be invalid in the absence of the designation
of
> a type specimen?
>

The question was not asked of me --- and I am hurriedly trying to read
emails and replace a faulty washer on the bath tub faucet for the wife (in
the background now muttering something out getting off the computer :-) -
so I can get out into the field with friendly stinging and biting bugs...
Off the top of my head and without much thought... Since names are based on
organisms (not the other way around).   How can we have a name without a
type?   There is no way to "test"  (have an objective definition) of what
it is.   What version of the Code was this Coelacanth given a name under?
I am interested in more informaiton in this case too.
Ron Gatrelle