Taxacom: Typographic errors mistaken by new names

[Carlos Alberto Martínez Muñoz]

Dear all,
Thank you for your replies. One reason why I wrote to Taxacom was to check
if I missed an evident exit and got lost in the ZooCode labyrinth. From
your replies, it seems to me that I am not lost.
Yes, *Cuchicuchancia* is an incorrect subsequent spelling, and not an
available name from Fulanus, 1800 in the sense of the ZooCode article 33.3.
*Cuchicuchancia* becoming available and valid is limited, as pointed out by
Doug, in that they must be attributed to the original author and not to the
person who changed the spelling. That is the sense of the ZooCode article
33.3.1. As far as I have checked, all instances of the incorrect subsequent
spelling *Cuchicuchancia* are attributed to Fulanus, and never to Menganus,
the author of the correct original spelling *Cuchicuchoria*. What makes
this case so rare is how such a typo has survived for so long despite it
being unavailable.
Currently there are two taxonomic concepts implied, one by Menganus
(updated and more restricted, not including Fulanus), and that of Fulanus,
also updated and more restricted. Revisiting this issue has some merit in
that we should aim at having taxonomic concepts based on names that are
available in the sense of the ZooCode. I see two solutions:
1) To ask the Commission to use its plenary powers to conserve
*Cuchicuchancia* Fulanus, 1800. This has the downside of the real name
matching a vernacular name in one language and also matching the
uncorrected original spelling of a family name.
2) To propose a new name for the taxonomic concept currently labeled as
*Cuchicuchancia*. This avoids applying to the Commission and should also
solve the "homonymy" problem for biodiversity informatics applications.
I am open to both options. If someone would like to read what I have
written so far to advise on 1 or 2, please reach out to me.
Kind regards,
Carlos

Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz
Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland
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