[Taxacom] Emendation / species splitting
Anthony Pigott
Anthony.Pigott at btinternet.com
Sun Apr 6 09:48:45 CDT 2008
Dear All
Excuse my ignorance but could anyone please confirm or otherwise my
understanding of how best to represent the outcome of the following:
(1) A plant taxon is named as the species Dus aus by Snooks with subspecies
aus, bus and cus. Dus bus is accepted as a synonym of the species Dus aus
but it is based on a different type.
(2) A paper is subsequently published by Buggins who declares that the three
original subspecies are each good species and should be called Dus aus, Dus
bus and Dus cus.
(3) A further paper is published by Snooks who now accepts that there are
three species.
The taxon Dus aus Snooks [sensu Snooks(1)] is very different to Dus aus
Snooks [sensu Buggins and sensu Snooks(3)].
Is the best (right?) way to distinguish them referring to one as Dus aus
Snooks and Dus aus Snooks emend. Buggins?
Thanks
Anthony
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