[Taxacom] Corrigenda and nomenclature

[Stephen Thorpe]

Sounds messy! Depends on whether the Errata & Corrigenda page is published according to the Code. The fact that it is only on some copies suggests that it can't be considered part of the original published work? If it isn't dated, then it could be tricky to determine priority if the preoccupied names have also been replaced by others. I suggest that it doesn't really matter which way you jump, as long as you make your assessment of it clear and explicit. So, you might note the existence of the page, but say that you do not consider it to have been validly published according to the Code. There would be little point in anybody disagreeing ...

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Dr. David Campbell [amblema at bama.ua.edu]
Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 12:04 p.m.
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: [Taxacom] Corrigenda and nomenclature

Frierson (1927, A Classified and Annotated Check List of the North
American Naiades) in some copies has a typewritten (conspicuously not
matching the printing of the book) page of Errata et Corrigenda.  On it
he proposes replacements for three preoccupied genus names and
identifies certain species listings in the main text as showing the
type of the respective genus or subgenus.  I have not confirmed whether
any new species names have spelling corrected (one new genus listed
once with a presumably incorrect spelling different from the rest of
the text is not corrected).

Are the replacement genera valid as of this?  Are the type designations
valid?

(ICZN applies; "naiad" has been used of plants but this is freshwater
mussels).

--
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections Building
Department of Biological Sciences
Biodiversity and Systematics
University of Alabama, Box 870345
Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0345  USA


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