[Taxacom] unflagged classification change question

[John Grehan]

I'd go for B. Not that I am necessarily an authority on anything :)

John Grehan

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Derek Sikes <dssikes at alaska.edu> wrote:

> All,
>
> For those of you who keep track of one or more taxonomic classifications on
> which you are an authority...
>
> I'd like to know how you'd react to the following (all too-realistic)
> hypothetical scenario:
>
> *You find a publication by Smith in which a species name that you feel had
> been justifiably made a junior synonym some years earlier, was treated as a
> valid species with no explanation for the change. *
>
> In the next publication you produce on the group do you:
>
> A) list it as a valid species citing Smith's publication
>
> B) re-synonymize it, cite Smith, and explain that there was no evidence
> offered by Smith for the change
>
> C) ignore (don't cite) Smith and list it as a junior synonym
>
> D) something else? (& for this hypothetical, imagine Smith recently died)
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
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