[Taxacom] Taxacom Digest, Vol 85, Issue 8

Gary Anweiler gganweiler at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 11 02:24:13 CDT 2013


Re Amorphophallus titanum:  Interestingly...an Amorphophallus titanum is 
apparently also blooming here at the Muttart Conservatory here in Edmonton 
Alberta Canada!  While winter still reigns outdoors. Google Edmonton & 
Amorphophallus to see the details.

Gary Anweiler



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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Generic type of large genus belongs in different genus
      (Richard Pyle)
   2. Correspondence of Henry Willey, early American lichenologist
      (Richard Zander)
   3. Re: Generic type of large genus belongs in different genus
      (Stephen Thorpe)
   4. Amorphophallus titanum blooming at MU (Vincent, Michael)
   5. pdf request (krogmann, lars)
   6. >(][[[[[[[[[[[[[[> Graduate student opportunity in systematic
      entomology & bioluminescence - Virginia Tech (Paul Marek)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:14:17 -1000
From: "Richard Pyle" <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Generic type of large genus belongs in
different genus
To: "'Roderic Page'" <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>, "'TAXACOM'"
<taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
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I'll take a moment to address something raised by Rod:

> The effects would be lessened if we either:

[...]

> (b) Had a complete database of synonyms that we could use to expand our 
> queries

Late last month we hosted a gathering of developers from BHL, GNA, IPNI, and 
Index Fungorum and spent a week focused on figuring out how best to 
integrate some of the datasets we already have access to.  There were many 
good ideas and several new services (currently in prototype form) emerging 
from that meeting, as well as a major focus on cross-linking content from 
the different resources.

As to Rod's point "b", we are obviously a long way off from that "complete 
database of synonyms" right now.  However, one of the things we accomplished 
at last month's meeting was a step in the right direction.  Specifically, 
one of the things we did was to define a better way to leverage two distinct 
resources:  The Global Names Index (GNI; http://gni.globalnames.org/), which 
contains 17M text-string scientific names; and the Global Names Usage Bank 
(GNUB), which currently contains about a half-million Taxon Name Usage 
instances with cross-links to literature (and which is the database behind 
ZooBank).  By more tightly integrating these two GNA components, we'll be 
able to seed GNI with "clean" name-strings and associated persistent, 
actionable GNUB identifiers.  In doing so, the existing parsing and lexical 
matching algorithms already in GNI will be supplemented via GNUB content to 
include both heterotypic synonym cross-matching (e.g., matching "Aus bus" to 
"Xus bus"); and homotypic synonym cross-linking (e.g., knowing that "Aus 
bus" has been regarded as a synonym of "Aus xus").

For example, a search in GNI for "Pomatomus saltatrix" currently yields 11 
lexical variants 
(http://gni.globalnames.org/name_strings?search_term=Pomatomus+saltatrix&commit=Search). 
We can now link those 11 variants to the corresponding GNUB Protonym UUID 
(FFF7160A-372D-40E9-9611-23AF5D9EAC4C; which you can see in ZooBank as 
http://zoobank.org/FFF7160A-372D-40E9-9611-23AF5D9EAC4C).  That, by itself, 
is sort of cool -- but only a little bit.  What's *really* cool is that we 
also built a service that allows that Protonym UUID to be passed in to GNUB, 
and the following list be returned:

Gasterosteus saltatrix Linnaeus, 1766
Ga?tero?teus Sallatrix Linnaeus, 1766
Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766)
Pomatomus saltator (Linnaeus, 1766)
Lopharis mediterraneus Rafinesque, 1810
Pomatomus mediterraneus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Pomatomus pallasii (Eichwald, 1831)
Sypterus pallasii Eichwald, 1831
Pomatomus conidens (Castelnau, 1861)
Temnodon conidens Castelnau, 1861
Gonenion serra Rafinesque, 1810
Pomatomus serra (Rafinesque, 1810)
Pomatomus tubulus (Saville-Kent, 1893)
Temnodon tubulus Saville-Kent, 1893
Pomatomus nalnal (Rochebrune, 1880)
Sparactodon nalnal Rochebrune, 1880
Pomatomus pedica Whitley, 1931
Anthias lophar (Forssk?l, 1775)
Perca lophar Forssk?l, 1775
Pomatomus lophar (Forssk?l, 1775)
Cheilodipterus heptacanthus Lac?p?de, 1801
Pomatomus heptacanthus (Lac?p?de, 1801)
Pomatomus skib Lac?p?de, 1802
Pomatomus sypterus (Pallas, 1814)
Scomber sypterus Pallas, 1814
Chromis epicurorum Gronow in Gray, 1854
Pomatomus epicurorum (Gronow in Gray, 1854)

(Besides these "clean" text string names, there is also a host of other 
metadata included with the service response, such as GNUB Protonym UUIDs for 
each element of each name.)

The first item in that list is the Protonym itself (i.e., the original 
combination and orthography, sort of like the basionym).  The second item in 
the list is an example of a lexical variant (i.e., the same genus + species 
combination, but an alternate spelling).  The third and fourth items in the 
list are (respectively), a homotypic synonym (same species, different 
genus), and a spelling variant of the same homotypic synonym.  The remaining 
items in the list are all names that have been regarded as heterotypic 
synonyms of that species (and their lexical and homotypic variants).  Had 
there been any treatments that regarded saltatrix as a heterotypic synonym 
of another species, those other species would have been included as well.

So, once we get this new set of services implemented through GNA (GNI+GNUB), 
you will be able to start with any of the 11 text-string names already 
indexed in GNI (as well as any of the 11 text-string variants of Pomatomus 
saltator, or the four variants of Gasterosteus saltatrix, or any variants of 
any of the heterotypic synonyms), and get an expanded list of other names 
(i.e., the list above) that the organism you're searching for might have 
been called at one time or another in history.

Another thing we can include in the response to that service is metrics 
about how often and when the various names (lexical variants, homotypic 
synonyms and heterortypic synonyms) have been used throughout history.

Now, as cool as this is, it's obviously limited by the content we have in 
GNUB/ZooBank (as I said, about a half-million name-usages anchored to about 
120,000 protonyms). But we also made very good progress on two other fronts 
at last month's meeting:

2) Cross-linking the GNI names services to the 107M+ names already known to 
appear on BHL pages; and
3) Cross-linking literature records in BHL (Books, Journals, Articles) to 
corresponding records in GNUB/ZooBank.

Each of these three things is, by itself, an important step forward.  But 
what's really exciting is what we can do with all three of them together.

Essentially, this triangle of services (BHL-GNI-GNUB) will allow us to 
discover and index literally tens of millions of Taxon Name Usage instances 
from the BHL OCR text.  Among these tens of millions of TNUs will be 
millions of protonyms.  Because the systems can cross-reference each other, 
the process to verify and clean up these name-usages will be accelerative. 
The upshot is that we will, in principle, be able to provide the service 
described above (expanding searches to include a wide spectrum of name 
variants and synonyms) to a great many more taxa.

To make it work, of course, there needs to be high-quality nomenclature 
underpinning the entire system.  ZooBank, in cooperation with a variety of 
zoological nomenclators, is already taking steps towards this for the 
zoological names.  Part of last month's meeting was also to explore ways 
that IPNI, Tropicos, and Index Fungorum could be likewise integrated into 
this part of the GNA infrastructure. Once that gets sorted out, it would be 
great to include bacterial and viral names as well.

So, no....we do not yet have "a complete database of synonyms that we could 
use to expand our queries".  However, we do now have the infrastructure in 
place to build it.

And if I were inclined to make wagers, I'd bet that we'll have it built long 
before we persuade the broader taxonomic community to lock in "current" 
genus+species combinations and keep those stable going forward.

Aloha,
Rich

Richard L. Pyle, PhD
Database Coordinator for Natural Sciences
Associate Zoologist in Ichthyology
Dive Safety Officer
Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum
1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817
Ph: (808)848-4115, Fax: (808)847-8252
email: deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/staff/pylerichard.html








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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:32:22 -0500
From: "Richard Zander" <Richard.Zander at mobot.org>
Subject: [Taxacom] Correspondence of Henry Willey, early American
lichenologist
To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
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George W. Clinton of Buffalo NY kept much of his correspondence with
mid-1800's botanists. The letters of Henry Willey to Clinton in the
1870's are now transcribed and online in an annotated Web page by P. M.
Eckel:



http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/ResBot/hist/CorrAuth/WilleyClinton/1_W
illeyClinton.htm

or

http://tinyurl.com/cpqmd3z



More letters of mid-1800's botanists are at:

http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/5Hist.htm



_________________________
Richard H. Zander
Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA
Web sites: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/
<http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/>  and
http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/bfnamenu.htm
<http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/bfnamenu.htm>
Modern Evolutionary Systematics Web site:
http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/21EvSy.htm
<http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/21EvSy.htm>
UPS and FedExpr -  MBG, 4344 Shaw Blvd, St. Louis 63110 USA





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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:46:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Generic type of large genus belongs in
different genus
To: David Campbell <pleuronaia at gmail.com>
Cc: TAXACOM <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
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Yes, David makes a good point. IT is "pissing in the wind" to attempt to 
catch all the uses of a name within a publication. It is pointless, because 
context plays such a big role, and there is a danger of a search swamping 
you with irrelevant multiple uses of a name that you don't need to know 
about. So, I go back to my previous suggestion that every publication should 
mention the original combination of every species it mentions once, then 
computers can pick it up as a publication relevant to that nominal species. 
This is all we need, and actually it is pretty standard in the taxonomic 
literature...
?
Stephen

From: David Campbell <pleuronaia at gmail.com>
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Cc: TAXACOM <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2013 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Generic type of large genus belongs in different 
genus

Actually, computers ought to be able to spot the mention of Drosophila
melanogaster as an original combination in the text and tag the article as
containing the taxon of interest.? Name recognition by Google and BHL is
far from perfect, so you need to read through any tagged publication
yourself to actually catch all the uses of a name.? (For example, BHL is
rather better at spotting names in the index than in text with random old
fonts.)? A large proportion of the references will be to "D. melanogaster",
so there has to be search flexibility in any case.

Many taxa hava a much more complex nomenclatural history than the two
genera in the case of S. melanogaster.? Higher categories (family, etc.)
tend to be more stable, so a link to higher-level classification would
provide a useful way to check.? A search for any reference to melanogaster
in references dealing with vinegar flies would do better than a search
specifically for Drosophila melanogaster, while turning up fewer unrelated
black-tummied species.? Of course, that requires actual accurate
recognition of information about higher taxa in a paper, not a blind
assignment of name hits to the supposed higher category.? Homonyms and
erroneous hits are too common for that to be helpful; indeed, the whole
point of adding a search for indications of higher taxa would be to have it
independent of the genus and species recognition, so that they serve as
checks on each other.

More generally, I favor of making the computers do more work and people do
less work in figuring out what names mean.


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

> My perspective is motivated mainly by simply trying to find information.
> If I search an archive like BHL, which spans centuries of literature up to
> the present day, finding information about a taxon is greatly complicated
> if the name keeps changing. This is a well known problem. The effects 
> would
> be lessened if we either:
>
> (a) Stopped creating new combinations to reflect a favoured classification
>
> (b) Had a complete database of synonyms that we could use to expand our
> queries
>
> Either solution would work, but we've done neither, hence we have a mess.
>
> I'm not trying to "ban" Sophophora melanogaster, I'm just questioning why
> we want to change the name. OK, I understand why (we want names to reflect
> relationships) I just question the cost of this (it complicates finding
> information) versus the perceived benefits. A phylogeny is a much more
> informative summary of the relationships of this fly than its binomial
> name, and changing the name severs the connection with the bulk of the 
> data
> we've accumulated about this insect. Sure, some people may know that
> Sophophora melanogaster and Drosophila melanogaster, but for the vast
> majority of species most people (or, more importantly, computers) won't
> know that two names refer to the same thing.
>
> > So, ideally, any publication which uses the combination Sophophora
> melanogaster just needs to state once at the beginning that it is the same
> species as was originally described as Drosophila melanogaster by Meigen 
> in
> 1830
>
> Seriously? This is how you want to tackle the problem? How do you envisage
> something like Google or BHL making use of this?
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
>
> On 8 Apr 2013, at 23:13, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
>
> > Actually, all this is confusing several distinct issues. We have a
> half-baked notion that a species has a "current name", possibly different
> from its original combination, and that this "current name" should act as 
> a
> unique identifier for the species! Rubbish! And all this has nothing to do
> with "instability", which is more about synonymy, i.e. a change in the
> specific epithet, not about changes in combination. Original combinations
> are objective unique identifiers for species, with the caveat that in 
> cases
> of homonymy, the original combination is objectively replaced by that of
> the first valid replacement name. "Current names" are subjective 
> hypotheses
> of relationships ... like it or not! There simply is no problem in the
> case, for example, of Drosophila melanogaster, as long as the specific
> epithet stays as 'melanogaster', and as long as it is clear that we are
> talking about the same species as was originally described as Drosophila
> melanogaster by Meigen in 1830. So, ideally, any publication which uses 
> the
> combination Sophophora melanogaster just needs to state once at the
> beginning that it is the same species as was originally described as
> Drosophila melanogaster by Meigen in 1830. But for some reason, Rod wants
> to ban the use of Sophophora melanogaster, and stick forever with JUST
> Drosophila melanogaster! But why? I can see no reason for such a position.
> Similarly, Kim seems to see a problem here, and seems to think that if
> people start using Sophophora melanogaster, then the link will be lost to
> the huge pile of past literature dealing nominally with Drosophila
> melanogaster, as if we won't know that they are the same species! This 
> also
> seems very strange to me!
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> > From: Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>
> > To: TAXACOM <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, 8 April 2013 7:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Generic type of large genus belongs in different
> genus
> >
> > It seems to me that this discussion makes a mockery of notion that
> nomenclature is separate from taxonomy. Once you have bionomial names, and
> insist on those names being "meaningful" (i.e., the genus name tells you
> something about relationships) then you have a recipe for instability.
> >
> > The ICZN decision regarding Drosophila melanogaster was the right one in
> my opinion, but for the wrong reasons. Why does it matter if Drosophila
> melanogaster sits in a phylogeny next to some Sophophora species? What
> matters is its relationships, not what we call it.
> >
> > Names are a poor way to convey relationships, why burden them with this
> role? If you have no other way of conveying relationships then perhaps the
> trade off between stability and meaning seems worthwhile. But we do have
> powerful ways of visualising relationships, so it seems perverse to
> continue to change names (thus annoying people who use them) in the hope
> that names remain "meaningful". We don't expect the name of an organism to
> be meaningful ("maximus" might not be the biggest species, "africanus"
> might come from Australia), can we not let this last scrap of meaning go
> and save us (and the wider community) some grief?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rod
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Roderic Page
> > Professor of Taxonomy
> > Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
> > College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
> > Graham Kerr Building
> > University of Glasgow
> > Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
> >
> > Email: r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
> > Tel: +44 141 330 4778
> > Fax: +44 141 330 2792
> > Skype: rdmpage
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rdmpage
> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rdmpage
> > Blog: http://iphylo.blogspot.com/
> > Home page: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html
> > Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderic_D._M._Page
> > Citations: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=4Z5WABAAAAAJ
> > ORCID id: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7101-9767
> >
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> ---------------------------------------------------------
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> Professor of Taxonomy
> Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
> College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
> Graham Kerr Building
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
>
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 19:51:01 -0400
From: "Vincent, Michael" <vincenma at miamioh.edu>
Subject: [Taxacom] Amorphophallus titanum blooming at MU
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
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In case anyone is interested, an Amorphophallus titanum is blooming today
at the Elk Greenhouse, Botany Department, Miami University.  Here is the
link to the live feed:
http://www.cas.miamioh.edu/botany/titan/

Mike Vincent

-- 
Dr. Michael A. Vincent, Curator

Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU)

Department of Botany

Miami University - MSC 1052

100 Bishop Circle, Rm. 79 Upham Hall

Oxford, Ohio 45056-1879 USA

Tel: 513-529-2755; FAX: 513-529-4243

Email: vincenma at miamioh.edu

http://herbarium.muohio.edu/herbariummu/


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:55:45 +0200
From: "krogmann, lars" <lars.krogmann at smns-bw.de>
Subject: [Taxacom] pdf request
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
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Dear all,

Does anyone have access to a pdf of the following publication:

Fahlander K (1938) Beitr?ge zur Anatomie und systematischen Einteilung
der Chilopoden. Zoologiska Bidrag fr?n Uppsala 17:1-148.

Thanks for your help and best wishes,

Lars

-- 
Dr. Lars Krogmann
Staatliches Museum f?r Naturkunde
Entomologie
Rosenstein 1
D-70191 Stuttgart
Germany
E-mail: lars.krogmann at smns-bw.de
Tel.: 0049-(0)711-8936-219
Fax: 0049-(0)711-8936-100
Web: http://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/forschung/entomology/krogmann

Editor of Insect Systematics & Evolution
http://www.brill.nl/ise

Manuscript submission
http://www.editorialmanager.com/ise/



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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:30:27 -0700
From: Paul Marek <brachoria at gmail.com>
Subject: [Taxacom] >(][[[[[[[[[[[[[[> Graduate student opportunity in
systematic entomology & bioluminescence - Virginia Tech
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
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www.apheloria.org and www.ento.vt.edu. Guidelines for applying to Virginia 
Tech's Graduate School can be found at: 
graduateschool.vt.edu/admissions/applying/.

Blacksburg, VA was named by Outside magazine as one of the top 10 places to 
live in the country, and offers an abundance of outdoor activities including 
mountain biking, caving, rafting, and hiking - 
www.vt.edu/where_we_are/blacksburg.

http://apheloria.org/Paul_Marek/Students.html


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