[Taxacom] Does a misspelling merit parentheses?

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

Adam, what you suggest is the spirit we would extract behind the rules. 
Parentheses should only be set if a species is transferred to a 
different genus, and not to the same genus for which a slightly 
different spelling is used. No matter if emendation or incorrect 
subsequent spelling.

Thomas highlighted the need to look closely at the Code's rules, and 
extracted in theory a case where this spirit is not covered. I would not 
tend to neglect that.

If the Code is not robust enough to cover all possible cases, I think in 
such a case there is a need to align the Code and to cover all those 
cases in the sense of that spirit. This would be the best solution, 
since it seems to reflect current practice, and only very few people are 
even able to discover exceptions of this rule.

Francisco


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Francisco Welter-Schultes

Am 11.04.2018 um 10:31 schrieb Adam Cotton:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Thorpe" 
> <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
> To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>; "Thomas Pape" <tpape at snm.ku.dk>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Does a misspelling merit parentheses?
> 
> 
>> This is still a bit unclear:
>>
>> 33.2.3. Any other emendation is an "unjustified emendation"; the name 
>> thus emended is available and it has its own author and date and is a 
>> junior objective synonym of the name in its original spelling; it 
>> enters into homonymy and can be used as a substitute name, but
>>
>> 33.2.3.1. when an unjustified emendation is in prevailing usage and is 
>> attributed to the original author and date it is deemed to be a 
>> justified emendation.
>>
>> This suggests that an unjustified emendation cannot be used as a valid 
>> name without thereby being deemed a justified emendation, so, in the 
>> context of this thread, still no parentheses required (by Art. 51.3.1)
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I have been following this thread, and have been somewhat puzzled why 
> there is a suggestion of an apparent issue of whether or not parentheses 
> are required.
> 
> As far as I understand the Code, parentheses are required after a 
> species is transferred from the original genus it was described in and 
> placed in a different genus.
> 
> Surely emendation of the same genus name, whether justified or not, is 
> not a case of moving the species to a different genus, and thus no 
> parentheses are needed.
> 
> Adam.
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