[Taxacom] Homonymous synonyms / cosmic order

[Anthony Gill]

In this case it's not all that surprising - both authors had picked up
on the two most distinctive features of the species (compared with
other ambassids known at the time).

I have stumbled across similar cases elsewhere in fishes (though I
don't recall them off the top of my head).

Tony

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM,  <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> wrote:
> Yes, that is a possibility, however no sign of it here (Boeseman's 1957 paper, i.e. instance #2):
>
> http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/150426
>
> I have not, however, seen the "correction notice circulated by Boeseman" as cited in Eschmeyer's Catalog.
>
> Regards - Tony
>
> From: Stephen Thorpe [mailto:stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, 4 June 2012 12:13 PM
> To: Rees, Tony (CMAR, Hobart); taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Homonymous synonyms / cosmic order
>
> I expect that it wasn't independent! The second guy probably thought the name hadn't already been validly published ...
>
> Stephen
>
> From: "Tony.Rees at csiro.au<mailto:Tony.Rees at csiro.au>" <Tony.Rees at csiro.au<mailto:Tony.Rees at csiro.au>>
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu<mailto:taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Sent: Monday, 4 June 2012 1:57 PM
> Subject: [Taxacom] Homonymous synonyms / cosmic order
>
> Dear Taxacomers,
>
> Searching in a quiet moment through Eschmeyer's online Catalog of Fishes, I came across the following interesting (to me) pair of homonymous genus and species names, as follows:
>
> <snip>
>
>  Gymnochanda Fraser-Brunner [A.] 1955:209 [ref. 1498]. Fem. Gymnochanda filamentosa Fraser-Brunner 1955. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Boeseman 1957:75 [ref. 487] independently chose the same genus and species name for this species; Gymnochanda Boeseman is a homonym and synonym of Gymnochanda Fraser-Brunner. [...]  Current status: Gymnochanda Fraser-Brunner 1955. Ambassidae.
>
>  Gymnochanda Boeseman [M.] 1957:75 [ref. 487]. Fem. Gymnochanda filamentosa Boeseman 1957. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Homonym and subjective synonym of Gymnochanda Fraser-Brunner 1955 (Boeseman independently chose the same genus and species names for this species [as stated in correction notice circulated by Boeseman]). [...] Current status: Gymnochanda Fraser-Brunner 1955. Ambassidae.
>
> </snip>
>
> In other words: 2 workers independently devised the same genus and species names, as new, in different places and on different occasions, for 2 taxa which turned out to be the same thing! The odds against this must surely be enormous?
>
> I'd be interested as to whether this is indeed an isolated instance or whether something more cosmic is at work here...
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Rees, Australia.
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