[Taxacom] Taxon names that include 'anon.'

[dipteryx at freeler.nl]

Well, it depends on what you want to do. If it comes down 
to citing a name, you would do what you would do with 
every other name: look it up in an appropriate reference 
(there are any number of names in the literature that are
there attributed to an author that would not now be 
accepted, as subsequent research or an alteration in the 
Rules makes it mandatory that a different author should 
be cited).

Anyway, "ined." indicates that the name was not validly 
published, not in that place. If it was not validly published 
later it thus is not a "taxon name" (it has no nomenclatural 
status).

A quick look in the TROPICOS-database for Acacia conspicua
(http://www.tropicos.org/name/13023798) shows a place of 
publication; it also shows that there is a possible homonym.

Paul van Rijckevorsel

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Van: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu namens David Remsen
Verzonden: zo 30-8-2009 17:18
 
Dear Taxacomers,

We are trying to understand the meaning of taxon names that show up in  
the GBIF index that include the term "anon."   This sometimes also  
occurs with the term "ined" and sometimes occurs with a year.   
Generally it is the last part of the cited name string but it  
sometimes precedes the year.

Examples include

  Acacia conspicua anon.
  Lepraria jolithus (L.) anon.
  Byssus jolithus (L.) anon.
  Lepra jolithus (L.) anon.
  Hygrocybe nitida (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) anon. ined. 1916
  Agaricus tenerrimus anon.
  Cortinarius acutus var. striatulus anon.
  Deconica pratensis (P.D. Orton) anon. ined. 1969
  Typhula phacorrhiza subsp. complanata (de Bary) anon. 1884
  Uredo duchesneae (Arthur) anon.

In a couple of cases the names cite 'anon' twice:

  Uredo appendiculata var. appendiculata (anon.) anon.
  Parmelia revoluta f. minor (anon.) anon

We aren't clear on the intent of this sort of annotation and I'm sure  
some folks here must have an answer.

Thank you in advance,
David Remsen (GBIF)
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