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

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

Hi Tony,
I have no access to the original source either, but since it is a French 
publication, it is possible that the original spelling was Eflugelia. In 
French the u is pronounced like the German ü. I occasionally observed 
that unexperienced French authors wrote Muller instead of Müller. This 
could also have happened in this name. Just a speculation.

Best wishes
Francisco

Am 24.08.2021 um 00:18 schrieb Tony Rees via Taxacom:
> 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
>> https://about.me/TonyRees
>> www.irmng.org
>>
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