[Taxacom] New lizard species

[dipteryx at freeler.nl]

Van: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu namens Stephen Thorpe
Verzonden: ma 7-6-2010 1:49

> character, n. 
> Any attribute of organisms used for recognizing, differentiating,
> or classifying taxa (ICZN Glossary)
 
> any competent English speaker must surely admit that the proposal 
> of the new gecko species does comply with the word (if not the
> "spirit") of 13.1.1.

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Surely, that is a really weird approach: 'competency in English'
has nothing to do with it, whatsoever.

"The Code is a very specialized, highly technical set of Rules,
that cannot be grasped “intuititively” by a quick look at 
a few lines in a book, or guessed by use of “common sense”."

(Dubois, Zootaxa 2426:3. 2010)