[Taxacom] "genus organus"?

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

And of course this phenomenon is commonplace under the botanical Code (as 
"morphotaxon").

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Oconnor" <bmoc at umich.edu>
To: "Michael A. Ivie" <mivie at montana.edu>
Cc: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] "genus organus"?


> Mike - The German acarologist Werner Hirschmann developed a form of
> taxonomy that he called "Gangsystematik," which stressed the use of
> morphological characteristics of all developmental stages of an
> organism in formulating a classification. In this system, he coined
> the term "Ganggattung" to describe "genera" that could be diagnosed
> based on features present throughout ontogeny, and "Stadiengattung"
> to describe those diagnosed only on the characteristics of one stage
> (typically the adult). His taxonomy used Linnaean nomenclature and
> the type concept, so his multitude of new names are mostly available
> according to the ICZN, although most are not in current use. His
> "Stadiengattungen" could be referred to "Ganggattungen" when their
> ontogenies were worked out. I think the use of the term "Gattung" in
> the German literature may be a confounding of its more general
> meaning of "kind" or "form" and its particular meaning of "genus" in
> nomenclature, much as "generic" in English may refer to both meanings
> of the word "genus".
> All the best! - Barry
>
> On Nov 8, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Michael A. Ivie wrote:
>
>> Dear taxacomers,
>>
>> A colleague in the paleo group here has asked me the meaning of "genus
>> organus" in a nomenclature context, a term used in a 1988
>> description of
>> fossil turtle eggs.  I don't have a clue, as I cannot find it in the
>> ICZN.  The usage in the text is "A systematically not interpretable
>> form
>> (/Testudinarum ovum/) is described, together with /Haininchelys
>> curiosa/
>> n.g.n.sp. as a new *genus organus* for fossil eggs."  This is in the
>> English abstract of a paper in German, the same sentence in German
>> being: Neben einer nicht naeher definierbaren Form (Testudinarum ovum)
>> wird Haininchelys curiosa n.g.s.p. als neue *Organgattung*
>> beschrieben."  I cannot make any sense of the German term using my
>> technical German dictionary either.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> So many mites, so little time!
>
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