[Taxacom] New species from warm houses

[Stephen Thorpe]

Art. 76.1.1 applies to particular individuals which have undergone an unnatural journey, not to their offspring. One situation where this has unclear application concerns offspring born in quarantine (or in still sealed food packets imported from overseas). Assuming that your "warm house" isn't under quarantine conditions, and that you have no reason to think that the particular individual you want to designate as holotype underwent an unnatural journey, there should be no problem with the "warm house" as type locality.

Stephen

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On Sun, 17/5/15, Richard Pyle <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New species from warm houses
 To: "'Angelo Bolzern'" <angelo.bolzern at arachnodet.com>, taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 Received: Sunday, 17 May, 2015, 8:48 AM
 
 Hi Angelo,
 
 A similar example is the
 Centipede Nannarrup hoffmani
 http://naturalis.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/repositorio/_documentos/sipcyt/bfa003924.pdf
 (see also: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/opinion/the-central-park-centipede.html)
 
 They list the type locality as
 Central Park, New York, with the following discussion:
 
 "The type material of the
 new species Nannarrup hoffmani was collected in Central
 Park, New York City, associated with numerous
 specimens (both adults and juveniles)
 of
 Henia vesuviana (Newport, 1845) and Schendyla nemorensis (C.
 L. Koch,
 1836), two introduced species from
 Europe already recorded from other North
 American sites. We can exclude a European
 origin for N. hoffmani, but we are pretty
 sure that its presence in New York City was due
 to introduction by human agency.
 This
 locality is widely separated from the distribution range of
 all other species of
 Arrupinae and of all
 Mecistocephalidae at large. The presence of this family
 in
 North America is limited to two species
 of Dicellophilus and Arrup pylorus, from
 California. The real provenance of N. hoffmani
 hence remains obscure, although
 either a
 west American or an east Asiatic origin may be
 guessed."
 (p. 1262)
 
 One could argue that the specimens collected in
 the warm house more directly relate to Art. 76.1.1 than to
 the example above -- but nothing in the Code would make that
 distinction (the phrase "or its wild progenitor"
 could be open to either broad or narrow interpretation).
 
 My inclination would be to
 describe and name it formally (assuming it can confidently
 be determined as a new species), establish the type locality
 as the warm house, and add a comment along the lines of what
 was used for N. hoffmani.
 
 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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 On Behalf Of
 > Angelo Bolzern
 > Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 9:32 AM
 > To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 > Subject: [Taxacom] New species from warm
 houses
 > 
 > Hi
 there,
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > If you collect
 specimens from an undescribed species in a warm house,
 what
 > would you do? The code states
 (Art. 76.1.1.) that the type locality is where the
 > artificial dislocated specimen comes
 from... but what if that is unknown?
 >
 
 > 
 > 
 > Possibilities:
 > 
 > -      not describe the new species
 > 
 > -      describe
 it not formally (species 1, species 2)
 >
 
 > -      describe it but with unknown
 type locality.
 > 
 >
 
 > 
 > Helpful
 suggestions are welcome.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Angelo
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Angelo Bolzern, Ph.D.
 >
 
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 > 
 > Switzerland
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 > 
 > +41 (0)76 339 76 30
 >
 
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 > 
 > www. <http://agelenidsoftheworld.myspecies.info/>
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 www.arachnodet.com
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