[Taxacom] Nomina nuda and genbank?

[Roderic Page]

My understanding is that GenBank won't modify data unless the original  
submitted asks them to. Hence, the authors of the original study on  
molluscs would need to ask GenBank to make the modifications.

Regards

Rod

On 1 Nov 2009, at 23:51, Francisco Welter-Schultes wrote:

>> Re "taxonomic names used in GenBank cannot be modified or updated",
>> this is incorrect. GenBank can and does update names (for example  
>> frog
>> names have been changed in recent years following the Frost el al.
>> paper), and they will also merge/delete names.
>
> Ask Edi Gittenberger from Naturalis Leiden (NL), he confirmed me  
> that this
> was not possible for molluscs. When Edi told them that the authors  
> of a
> molecular study had misidentified a species, as could be evidently  
> seen
> from the distributional data given in the work and the published  
> record on
> the ranges of the species in question (which had not been consulted  
> by the
> authors of the molecular study), GenBank argued that this was his  
> personal
> opinion and others may have other opinions, and that they would not  
> touch
> the data record.
>
> Francisco
>
>
>
>
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