[Taxacom] Chasing original spelling of a genus name...

[Tony Rees]

Sorry, 2 typos in the above message, for "Flügelia" read "Eflügelia" (a
possible/conjectured original spelling), similarly for Flugelia read
Eflugelia as later listed by Senowbari-Daryan in 2005.

Regards - Tony


On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 05:26, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Taxacomers,
>
> Having obtained a copy of the 2010 work on Algospongia (fossil group,
> variously assigned to animals or algae incertae sedis) by Vachard and Cózar
> as per a previous post, I note an inconsistency in the spelling of a genus
> name, namely in that work this spelling:
>
> - "Efluegelia Vachard in Massa & Vachard, 1979" (spelling consistently
> used therein, note Vachard is the first author of this citing work as well
> as of the original name, but 30-odd years later)
>
> vs. "Eflugelia Vachard  in Massa & Vachard, 1979" - spelling as used in
> Nomenclator Zoologicus and some other sources
>
> "Efluegelia Vachard" has 4 hits in Google Scholar at time of
> writing, "Eflugelia Vachard" has 7.
>
> The original publication is given as: Massa, D. and Vachard, D. 1979. Le
> Carbonifère de Lybie Occidentale: biostratigraphie et micropaléontologie;
> position dans le domaine téthysien d’Afrique du Nord. Revue de l’Institut
> Français du Pétrole, 34(1), 3-65 , abstract available at
>
> https://ogst.ifpenergiesnouvelles.fr/articles/ogst/abs/1979/01/vol34n1p3/vol34n1p3.html
> , however this does not mention the new generic name in question.
>
> One possibility is that the original spelling was Flügelia, orthography
> subsequently corrected in 2 different ways, as per the article "Fossil
> names dedicated to Erik Flügel" by B Senowbari-Daryan in Facies, 2005
> (which uses the spelling "Flugelia"), but that is just a guess.
>
> Just wondering if anyone has access to the original publication as cited,
> and/or can advise of which would be the correct spelling of this genus name
> to be cited today (the name is presently listed as a synonym of
> Fourstonella Cummings).
>
> Maybe a small thing, but knowing the correct spelling of scientific names
> is one of the foundations of biological information sharing and linking
> (and of biodiversity databases...)
>
> Regards - Tony
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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>