[Taxacom] authorities of kingdoms of life

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Kinman" <kinman at hotmail.com>

>     As for Kingdom Protista Haeckel 1866, none of the traditional Codes
> has real jurisdiction, since it is a high level taxon and contains forms
> traditionally considered animals or plants or both (some having both
> zoological and botanical names).

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Whether the Codes have jurisdiction here is an interesting question.
Clearly, there is no such thing as "real jurisdiction", just as there is no
such a thing as "slightly pregnant".  In the case of the ICZN this is
simple, as the ICZN does not apply to higher ranks

However, the ICBN does cover all scientific names of taxa (i.e. in all
ranks), so the matter of rank is not relevant. Also, the ICBN applies to
"all organisms traditionally treated as plants" (Preamble 7), so the mixed
nature, too, is not really relevant. If you want to free it from the
jurisdiction of the ICBN it would be more poroductive to argue that by
publishing a new Kingdom Haeckel deliberately put his new group outside the
framework accepted for plants and thus out of the reach of the future ICBN
...
Paul