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

Tue Aug 24 15:18:46 CDT 2021

Aha, I overlooked a statement in Vachard & Cozar, 2010, who wrote (p. 208):

  "The spelling “Efluegelia”, and not Eflugelia as originally written, is
justified by Krainer et al. (2003)."

This reference is:
Krainer, K., Vachard, D. and Lucas, S. G. 2003. Microfacies and microfossil
assemblages (smaller foraminifers, algae, pseudoalgae) of the Hueco Group
and Laborcita Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian-Lower Permian), south-central
New Mexico, USA. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia i Stratigrafia, 109,
3-36.

That work (Krainer et al., 2003) is available online, but makes no
reference to such a correction so far as I can see, using the (original)
spelling Eflugelia throughout, see
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/296281818.pdf .

Maybe they meant to refer to the Mamet paper cited in my last post, which
did make such a correction - again whether justified or not, I do not know
(I am inclining to think not, at this time).

Still a bit curious, especially considering the statement given above -
unless it is a simple mistake.

Regards - Tony

On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 at 05:10, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Laurent (also to Valéry Malécot who replied as well as Francisco),
>
> Thank you for that information RE the originally published spelling, which
> is clearly Eflugelia (no "ue"). I was then all set to consider the spelling
> "Efluegelia" as used in Vachard and Cózar's 2010 review work as a simple
> error (subsequent misspelling), but then came across this:
>
>
> https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Rivista_Italiana_Di_Paleontologia_E_Stra/dzYhAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=eflugelia&dq=eflugelia&printsec=frontcover
>
> in which "Efluegelia" is given as a nom. corr., with "Eflugelia" given as
> "Eflugelia (sic)", that is, a spelling considered incorrect. This comes
> from Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia 112: 338 (2006),
> which it turns out is this work:  Mamet, B. 2006. Taxonomy of Viséan marine
> calcareous algae, Fernie, British Columbia (Canada). Rivista Italiana de
> Stratigrafia e Paleontologia, 112(3), 323-357. So it appears that Mamet
> believed that the name required correction, at least when used in botany -
> perhaps it was originally described as an animal, I am not sure -  and
> Vachard and Cózar adopted the corrected spelling without further comment
> (in their 2010 paper, Algospongia are treated as animals, although
> previously and also subsequently the same authors treat them as plants,
> which is thus my inclination for IRMNG treatment as well).
>
> So, this creates the new question - should Mamet's nom. corr. be
> considered a justified or unjustified correction, in botany in particular
> (if that makes any difference, which perhaps it does not...) From an off
> list comment by Valéry it would seem to be unjustified, but I am happy to
> receive any other opinion...
>
> Thanks - Tony
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 22:57, Laurent Raty <l.raty at skynet.be> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tony (& Francisco),
>>
>> Still not a real full view, but Google Books shows "snippets" of this
>> work:
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=dkNWAAAAYAAJ&dq=eflugelia
>>
>> I have attached what Google returns when I search the volume on
>> Eflugelia, Efluegelia, Eflügelia, Flugel and Flügel.
>> The genus name seems to be consistently spelled Eflugelia (spellings
>> Efluegelia and Eflügelia not present in the text); the name of the
>> dedicatee is spelled inconsistently, either Flugel (at least 3 times),
>> or Flügel (at least twice).
>>
>> Hope this helps, L -
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/24/21 12:55 AM, Tony Rees via Taxacom wrote:
>> > Thanks Francisco... I Found a copy of Senowbari-Daryan's 2005 work
>> > reproduced online where he repeats Vachard's original description word
>> for
>> > word, citing the name as "Eflugelia". So if that is correct (and I have
>> no
>> > reason to think that it is not), then Vachard's subsequent citing of the
>> > name as "Efluegelia" in his 2010 review paper would appear to be wrong
>> ...
>> > but real confirmation still needed, ideally.
>> >
>> > Regards - Tony
>> >
>> > On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 08:38, Francisco Welter-Schultes via Taxacom <
>> > taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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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