[Taxacom] Type of Homo sapiens (was: Are species real? Doesn't matter.)

[Michael Schmitt]

At 15:23 01.06.2007, Fernando Vaz-de-Mello  wrote:
> > (1) Neither has a holotype been fixed for Homo sapiens, nor does a
> > syntype series exist. Thus, a name-bearing type could only be reached
> > through neotype designation.
>
>are you sure  a syntype series does not exist?


As Neal Evenhuis already pointed out for the 10th ed.:
> > At 23:22 31.05.2007, Neal Evenhuis wrote:
> > >Juvenis Lupinus Hessensis. 1344. [1544, A young man found in Hesse
> > >among wolves.]
> > >Juvenis Ursinus Lithuanus. 1661. [A young man found among bears 
> in Lithuania.]
> > >Juvenis Ovinus Hibernus. Tulp. Obs. IV. [A young man found among wild
> > >sheep in Ireland.]
> > >Juvenis Hannoverianus. [1724, A young man found in Hanover.]
> > >Pueri 2 Pyrenaici. 1719. [Two boys found in the Pyrenees.]
> > >Johannes Leodisensis. [Boerhaave. John of Liege.]
> > >
> > >Article 72.4.1 of the ICZN Code excludes from the type series of a
> > >nominal species-group taxon specimens referred to as distinct
> > >variants. This means that specimens of Homo sapiens americanus,
> > >europaeus, asiaticus, afer, and monstrosus are not part of the type
> > >series of Homo sapiens and that Linnaeus is not eligible to be the
> > >lectotype (as designated by W. T. Stearn. 1959. Systematic Zoology
> > >8:4). We are thus left to select from among village idiots the
> > >lectotype for humankind.
"Lectotype" only if we agree that "nosce te ipsum" can be interpreted 
as "all readers form the syntype series", otherwise "neotype".

                                 Best regards
                                   Michael




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