[Taxacom] "genus organus"?

[Richard Jensen]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I would, in my naivete, interpret 
that as an organ genus. For example, here is a usage that I think is 
comparable:

"The wood anatomy supports close relationship to members of extant 
Platanaceae and the material is placed in the organ genus /Plataninium/ 
Unger erected for fossil woods with close anatomical similarity to 
/Platanus/ L."

An organ genus for fossil material. There are many examples of organ 
genera in paleontology.

Cheers,

Dick

Richard Jensen, Professor
Department of Biology
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: 574-284-4674



Barry Oconnor wrote:
> 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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