[Taxacom] New lizard species

[Heath Blackmon]

Personally, I am a bit uncomfortable with species that cannot be
differentiated without running sequences.  Putting that to the side though
couldn't the fact that when analyzed these populations sort in a certain way
be considered a trait and thus satisfy the requirements of 13.1.1?

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Francisco Welter-Schultes
<fwelter at gwdg.de>wrote:

> I agree absolutely with Gary that the lizard names were not
> made available under Art. 13.1.1 if no differentiating characters
> were given.
>
> > All the authors needed to do was say something like "G at position
> > 179 in gene X"
>
> It is good that molecular biologists usually don't know this trick.
> If they would be able to apply it. But even then, this would be
> debated. I would prefer defining a character in the sense of Art.
> 13.1.1 as a recognizable attribute that is produced by the organism
> by using/decoding/reading the DNA Code, and not the DNA Code itself.
>
> They could also have said "the new lizard species is green, while
> the others are blue", even if they knew it was not true, but this
> would also have made the names available. Good that they usually
> don't know this trick either...
>
> Francisco
>
>
> University of Goettingen, Germany
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