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

[Tony Rees]

Hello Paul, I have alerted ITIS to your message as below and hopefully you
or I will get an appropriate response from them shortly.

Best regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees

On 8 May 2018 at 15:44, Paul van Rijckevorsel <dipteryx at freeler.nl> wrote:

> ----- 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
>    https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34357823
> so cleaning up these names in ITIS is well overdue.
>
> Can somebody please help?
>
> Paul
>
> [There have been earlier efforts]
>