[Taxacom] Canis [familiaris] dingo Blumenbach - a non-existentname?

Paul Kirk P.Kirk at kew.org
Tue May 8 01:36:14 CDT 2018


I sympathise Paul ... ITIS is still using a 'quaint' classification from the early 20th century for 'fungi' - checkout the potato blight organism below. I recall handing someone a simple spreadsheet to fix these errors at the St Louis congress ... ☹

The other Paul
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Kingdom
Fungi  – champignons, Fungo, fungi
   Division
Myxomycota  – slime molds, myxomycètes
      Class
Phycomycota  – algae-like fungi
         Order
Peronosporales  
            Family
Pythiaceae  
               Genus
Phytophthora Bary, 1876 
                  Species
Phytophthora infestans (Montagne) Bary

-----Original Message-----
From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> On Behalf Of Paul van Rijckevorsel
Sent: 08 May 2018 06:44
To: taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Canis [familiaris] dingo Blumenbach - a non-existentname?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Rees" <tonyrees49 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 12:15 AM

> Maybe to some this will seem a lot of effort to clean up one name but 
> in this case the error was propagated widely and picked up in other 
> sources including several Wikipedia articles and Wikispecies, whom I 
> will contact, as well as elsewhere no doubt.

***
Yes, it is nice to be able to eliminate errors.

This brings to mind that ITIS still uses several names that have been 'outlawed' by Opinion 2027 (2003). This is based on an error in Mammal Species of the World (2005), an error for which the surviving author has since apologized.
It concerns names for very well-known animals:
    Bos primigenius (not 'Bos taurus primigenius')
    Bos gaurus (not 'Bos frontalis gaurus')
    Bos mutus (not 'Bos grunniens mutus')
    Bubalus arnee (not 'Bubalus bubalus arnee')
    Camelus ferus (not 'Camelus bactrianus ferus')
    Capra aegagrus (not 'Capra hircus aegagrus')
    Lama guanicoe (not 'Lama glama guanicoe')
    Ovis orientalis (not 'Ovis aries orientalis')

[The first name as allowed / protected by Opinion 2027.
The names in parentheses as used by ITIS and disallowed by Opinion 2027, with the other subspecies also named wrong.

Treating taxa at the level of subspecies, Bos primigenius primigenius, Bos primigenius taurus, Bos primigenius indicus are nomenclaturally correct options for three related taxa.]

Something wrong with the silkworm, as well.

It has now been fifteen years since Opinion 2027 was published so cleaning up these names in ITIS is well overdue.

Can somebody please help?

Paul

[There have been earlier efforts]

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