[Taxacom] New lizard species

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

> the characters offered need not actually differentiate the taxon, they
> only need to purport to do so

yes Stephen, but this is something we all had to learn at the very
beginning: science has a philosophical base, any science is generally
based on assumptions that cannot be proved. Seen from this side, nobody
can be required to know the eternal truth. Neither in the future nor in
the present. In a scientific paper you cannot state "the results prove
that..." (at least not in a journal worth publishing your study), you only
can say "the results suggest that...".

So if you want to express that a description should differentiate the
taxon within the scientific framework, you can just demand a visible
intention by the term "purported", what else could you do?

Francisco