[Taxacom] Nomina nuda and genbank?

[Gary Rosenberg]

The name in GenBank is a "manuscript name" (a term used but not defined in the zoological code, see example for Article 11.6.1). A mention of it published on paper creates a nude name.
 
>>>A nomen nudum has no author and date - the next person mentioning this name will produce a new nomen nudum.
 
This is not technically true. The ICZN Code regulates the authorship of available names (Article 50.1), but not of unavailable names. Recommendation 51F treats "Citation of author of unavailable or excluded names". Therefore, a nude name may have an author and date, but the Code does not regulate it: the author and date could be taken from the first appearance as a nude name or from any subsequent occurrence.
 
Each instance of a nude name is a discrete entity: each must be examined to determine if it constitutes a validation of the name. But then, each instance of an available name must be examined to determine if it refers to the originally described species or is a misidentification. So I think it is simpler to take the author and date of a nude name from its first appearance.
Gary Rosenberg
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia


>>> Sergio Vargas <sevragorgia at gmail.com> 10/31/2009 1:57 PM >>>
Then...

> I can only answer for zoology. It is a nomen nudum if it is published somewhere in a paper-based publication without having met
> the ICZN Code provisions for new names, and it is unavailable. So as soon as you mention it by citing it from GenBank, it becomes a
> nomen nudum. A nomen nudum has no author and date - the next person mentioning this name will produce a new nomen nudum.

this is kind of funny! If the name is only in a "genbank label" is
unavailable, and when I mention in a paper: "the name Patito feo,
referring to accession number xXXXX, is a nomen nudum", I am pointing
to something I have just created by adding ink to the soup. or?

Interesting!

thanks for all the answers

sergio

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