[Taxacom] Corrigenda and nomenclature

[Stephen Thorpe]

This issue highlights one of the main difficulties inherent in the bioinformatics projects. It is all very well to harvest names automatically, but these tricky little nomenclatural issues crop up and are not easy to solve...

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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: Friday, 6 November 2009 9:11 a.m.
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Corrigenda and nomenclature

> 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.

It is quite possible that the typewritten addendum was mimeographed in
this case-there are numerous identical copies.


> Has/have the name(s) been used?

One of the new names is in general use; the other two are regarded as
subjective synonyms.  They were unambiguously published a few years
later by Thiele, attributing them to Frierson.

The addendum also identifies certain listed species as types; in at
least one case it would be older and different from (though congeneric
with) the first unambiguously valid type designation.

I'll try the ICZN list.

--
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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