[Taxacom] multiple authors new species

[Adam Cotton]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Grehan" <calabar.john at gmail.com>
To: "Gurcharan Singh" <singhg45 at gmail.com>
Cc: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] multiple authors new species


> Many thanks to everyone 'et. al.' for the feedback.
>
> John Grehan
>
>

John,

It seems no-one has pointed out the punctuation error - there is no '.' 
after 'et', only after 'al'. Et is not an abbreviation, unlike 'al', so does 
not need a '.' after it.

The correct citation for the species should be Thitarodes biruensis (Fu et 
al., 2002).

By the way, I see this is a Chinese Hepialid. I remember last time I was in 
the BMNH in 2006(temporarily in Wandsworth at the time) I was talking to my 
old friend Gaden Robinson (RIP) and he was complaining about the new 
Hepialid volume of Fauna Sinica that had just arrived. It was full of 
synonyms and taxonomic issues, and he was really frustrated having just 
finished a revision of the family. He said "If I had any hair left I would 
be pulling it out right now".

Adam.