[Taxacom] Opinion 2027 [ was Canis [familiaris] dingo Blumenbach ]

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

OK, in the absense of anybody supporting
my interpretation of Opinion 2027, is there
anybody who would like to share his (other)
interpretation of this ruling?

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul van Rijckevorsel" <dipteryx at freeler.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 12:46 PM

> Thanks Tony, but they already know.
>
> Their problem is that they allow themselves to be
> confused by the "ruled under the plenary power
> to be not invalid by reason of being pre-dated by
> a name based on a domestic form" which is indeed
> a double negative that is awkward to read, rather
> than going by the more readable:
> "The names listed in the ruling above, which are
> the first available names in use based on wild
> populations, apply to wild species and include
> those for their domestic derivatives if these are
> not distinguishable." (p83)
>
> So what is immediately needed is a nomenclaturalist,
> or two, or three, who state support for the obvious
> explanation of the ruling.
>
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Tony Rees
>  To: Paul van Rijckevorsel
>  Cc: taxacom
>  Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 9:15 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Canis [familiaris] dingo Blumenbach - a
> non-existentname?
>
>
>  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]
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