[Taxacom] "Family" Tetrapterygidae
Kenneth Kinman
kinman at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 24 21:06:48 CST 2016
Hi all,
I just learned that Family Tetrapterygidae was proposed by Chatterjee (2015) in the 2nd Edition of The Rise of Birds. And it even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapterygidae .
The trouble is there is apparently no genus Tetrapteryx in this family. The genus Tetrapteryx was proposed about 200 years ago for a genus of cranes. Should we just ignore such a breach of nomenclatural rules or should it be formally suppressed before more people start using in classifications (as in the Wikipedia article).
------------Ken
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