[Taxacom] Dumerilia 10

Wed Nov 23 01:52:42 CST 2016

Dear all,

The issue 10 of the journal Dumerilia was published on 11 November. It
contains the following papers:

Mark. H. V. Van Regenmortel. Classes, taxa and categories in hierarchical
virus classification: a review of current debates on definitions and names
of virus species. (p. 1-21).

Alain Dubois, Thierry Frétey & Annemarie Ohler. The nomenclatural status of
the amphibian nomina published by Luuc Bauer from 1985 to 1994, with
comments on the Rules of the Code concerning the techniques of printing.
(p. 22-54).

Michail Rusin, Maria Ghazali & Maria Semenikhina. Notes on the nomenclature
of Sicista Griffith, 1827 (Rodentia: Sminthidae). (p. 55-60).

Stephen D. Busack, Alfredo Salvador, Aaron M. Bauer & Hinrich Kaiser.
Darevskia and Iberolacerta (Reptilia, Lacertidae): Arribas, 1997 or 1999?
The correct dating of nomenclatural acts affecting Palearctic lizards, and
validation of the name Caucasilacerta Harris, Arnold & Thomas, 1998. (p.
61-73).

Ross Wellington. Acanthophis cryptamydros Maddock, Ellis, Doughty, Smith &
Wüster, 2015 is an invalid junior synonym of Acanthophis lancasteri Wells &
Wellington, 1985 (Squamata, Elapidae). (p. 74-75).

The journal Dumerilia welcomes papers in all fields of biological
terminology and nomenclature.

Best wishes,

Alain Dubois
Emeritus Professor
Bionomina Chief Editor

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Professeur Émérite Alain Dubois
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) - UMR 7205
Reptiles & Amphibiens
CP 30
25 rue Cuvier
75005 Paris
France

emails: <adbionomina at gmail.com>, <adpeerj at gmail.com>, <adubois at mnhn.fr>

Chief Editor, Bionomina
<http://www.mapress.com/bionomina>

Nomenclature Editor, Zootaxa
<http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/>

Academic Editor, PeerJ
<https://peerj.com>
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2016-11-22 19:00 GMT+01:00 <taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>:

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> Subject: [Taxacom] What is the relative prevalence of different
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> Hello TAXACOM'ers,
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> In the context of plants, and using terminology from Remsen 2016 (The
> use and limits of scientific names in biological informatics)
> http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6234
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> I was wondering if anyone had data (or knew of a source to cite) on the
> relative proportion of name changes that are due to:
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> a) orthographic, lexical or nomenclatural synonyms
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> and
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> b) taxonomic synonyms
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> When applied to conservation biology e.g. IUCN Red List assessments, if
> a name is merely an orthographic, lexical or nomenclatural synonym there
> is no detrimental outcome on the validity of the original Red List
> assessment.
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> However, if the name (and taxon concept) under which the RL assessment
> was published is now considered a taxonomic synonym - this can and often
> does invalidate the Red List assessment of that taxon for many purposes.
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> If I wrote "Most synonymies are simply name changes from one genus to
> another genus, or a change of the gender of species name, without
> changing the underlying taxon circumscription"  would I be correct? Does
> anyone have data or published sources which provide hard evidence on this?
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> The Plant List is wonderful for determining if something is a synonym,
> but I wonder if in future iterations we could further annotate all
> synonyms with the exact type of synonym they are e.g. orthographic,
> nomenclatural or taxonomic -- it really matters! If anyone knows of an
> information resource that can do this, please let me know.
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> Best,
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> Ross
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