[Taxacom] New species of the future

[Stephen Thorpe]

Moot point about their "legality" according to the Code. I argue that -colus is meaningless, and the mere presence of -us, even with the mistaken belief by the original author that it was the appropriate masculine variant of -cola, does not make -colus masculine. But, as I already said, we can just stick with the original spelling in the absence of published (excepting publication on list servers) arguments to the contrary. The situation is similar to arguably invalid lectotype designations (in zoology), of which there are many. In the absence of other specimens also claiming to be lectotypes of the same nominal species, we can just treat them as if they were validly designated lectotypes. There is no reason to do otherwise.
 
Stephen

From: Michael Heads <m.j.heads at gmail.com>
To: Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> 
Cc: Bob Mesibov <mesibov at southcom.com.au>; TAXACOM <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> 
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They are truly horrible mistakes in Latin ('agricola' - masculine! - is one of the first words you learn in Latin). But they are completely legal and should not be changed unless you want to introduce confusion. Gary Rosenberg is spot on.



On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

Yes, these are some of the several mistakes which have been made over the years
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>In the absence of a text-searchable online list of scientific names, Google will have to do, and there are probably more.
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>Anisodactylus agricolus (Say, 1823)
>Bagrus agricolus Jerdan, 1849
>Dactyloscirus agricolus Corpuz-Raros, 1995
>Discolaimus agricolus Sauer & Annells 1986
>Paramorphochelus agricolus (Lebis 1961)
>Scheloribates agricolus Corpuz-Raros, 1980
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>Panicum miliaceum subsp. agricolum H. Scholz & Mikoláš, 1992
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