[Taxacom] Objective synonyms?

[Curtis Clark]

On 5/28/2010 8:23 PM, Michael A. Ivie wrote:
> Those examples are not synonyms, they are just different treatments
> (combinations) of the same name.  They have the same exact type,
> authorship and date of availability.  Synonyms are DIFFERENT names for the
> same taxonomic concept -- they can be objective (have the same type
> specimen for different availabilities and authorship [even if it is the
> same person] or subjective (someone believes they are the same species ex
> post facto).
>    

I had been led to understand that "objective synonym" was the same as a 
botanical "nomenclatural synonym"; nomenclatural synonyms are by 
definition homotypic. As I learned synonymy, the homotypic /Encelia 
nutans/ Eastwood and /Enceliopsis nutans/ (Eastwood) A. Nelson are 
synonyms, and I find nothing in the ICBN to contradict that. Perhaps the 
issue is that in botanical nomenclature such names do not have the same 
authorship, because the codes deal with authorship in a subtly different 
way.

Most of what I know of zoological nomenclature I got from Ed Wiley's 
/Phylogenetics/, and it could be both out-of-date and incorrect.

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