Taxacom: Typographic errors mistaken by new names

[Douglas Yanega]

On 2/17/22 5:12 PM, Geoff Read via Taxacom wrote:
> Yes, it would be
> interesting to know of other cases where the wrongly spelled names took on
> a new life.

In a certain sense, this happens all the time; any of the three types of 
spelling change (justified emendation, unjustified emendation, or 
incorrect subsequent spelling) can become available and valid. However, 
this is limited in that they must be attributed to the original author, 
not the person who changed the spelling. They generally only get 
credited as authors if the original name proves to be unavailable.

It is hard to think of cases where the original name is available, *and* 
the misspelled name is also available *and* attributed to the author who 
misspelled it.

I will note that there are cases where someone misspelled a name, and 
someone else mistakenly thought it was actually spelled that way - and 
therefore involved that misspelled name in a case of mistaken homonymy 
with a different available name - and replaced a name that was NOT 
actually a homonym (e.g., Dolabella Lamarck was misspelled by Gistl as 
"Dollabella", and when Cummings published a perfectly good name 
Dollabella in 1916, someone else erroneously replaced it, even though it 
was not a homonym).

Peace,

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