[Taxacom] Corrigenda and nomenclature

[mivie at montana.edu]

Interesting case.  Between 1985 and 1999, the answer would be definitely
not, as Article 8 c of the 1985 Code says that works from before 1986 must
have been produced "by conventional printing, such as letterpress, offset
printing, or hectographing, or by mimeographing."  Since a typewriter,
even with carbon paper, was not one of those, it was never published.

However, in the 1999 Code, this was changed (Art. 8.4) to "by a printing
method then conventional (such as letterpress, offset printing) or by
hectographing or mimeographing."

The problem is the phrase "such as."  While I find it clear that
typewriter with carbon paper was NOT "conventional printing" in 1927 (and
if not with carbon paper, it was not with a method that assured numerous
identical copies).  However, someone else might disagree, and I am not
sure that it could be argued that either opinion is absolutely correct, so
you end up with a draw.

Has/have the name(s) been used?

Mike Ivie


> 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).
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