[Taxacom] taxonomic resistance? (was Re: Phylocode vs Linnean)

[Stephen Thorpe]

for what it is worth, I think that the ICZN is *very foolish* indeed not to 
designate melanogaster as type species of Drosophila, as they may be shooting 
themselves in the foot, by feeding the fires of the "let's forget Linnaeus and 
go phylocode" movement ...

Stephen


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From: Kim van der Linde <kim at kimvdlinde.com>
To: Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
Cc: Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu>; TAXACOM at MAILMAN.NHM.KU.EDU
Sent: Sat, 16 April, 2011 10:06:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] taxonomic resistance? (was Re: Phylocode vs Linnean)

Stephen,

Yeah, cage match between Drosophila melanogaster and Sophophora melanogaster!

Kim

On 4/15/2011 8:49 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
>  >adherence to The Code [ICZN] is voluntary as far as I know (if not,
> please send me the forms that I need to sign),
> this is true, *but* risky to ignore the Code - for one thing there is a
> substantial bioinformatics community working on cataloguing all taxa.
> They will likely ignore any work that *doesn't* adhere to the Code. So,
> you run the risk of having your work ignored and/or having your taxa
> renamed by someone else who may become the author of the new names
> despite doing less actual work that you have done. So, it all depends on
> how big the "ignore the Code" community gets relative to the Code
> conformist community, and that, at present, is far from clear ...
> Stephen