[Taxacom] names pre-1758

[Laurent Raty]

David,

Article 3.1. also states explicitly that :

"Two works are deemed to have been published on 1 January 1758:
 - Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, 10th Edition;
 - Clerck's Aranei Svecici.
Names in the latter have precedence over names in the former, but names in
any other work published in 1758 are deemed to have been published after the
10th Edition of Systema Naturae."

These names should theoretically be cited as dating from "Clerck, 1758",
despite this work was actually published in 1757. But this is often not
followed in practice.

Cheers,
--
Laurent Raty
l.raty at skynet.be
Brussels, Belgium


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shorthouse, David" <dps1 at ualberta.ca>
To: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Thursday, 14 June, 2007 18:58
Subject: [Taxacom] names pre-1758


> Folks,
>
> The World Spider Catalog has a number of species whose year of publication
> precede 1758, which, according to Article 3 of the ICZN is not acceptable.
> For example:
>
> Salticus scenicus (Clerck, 1757)
> Misumena vatia (Clerck, 1757)
> etc.
>
> There are at least 45 other Nearctic examples. I'm curious why the
> starting point for nomenclature is arbitrarily fixed at 1 January 1758
> when clearly, Clerck published these names before Systema Naturae.
>
> David P. Shorthouse
>
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