Taxacom: Subspecies PROBABLY described

Mikhail Daneliya mdaneliya at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 14:29:51 CST 2022


The name has been ignored. This probably helps its unacceptance. I found it
in papers of a conference, in Russian language (not an abstract, but a full
paper with descriptions and figures). In fact, maybe more correct word is
not "probably", but "perhaps" or "possibly". The Russian word "vozmozhno"
is translated either way.
The whole phrase is translated as, "Perhaps, the specimens of B.inermis
from the Peru-Chile Trench form a special subspecies B.i.peruana n.ssp."

Thanks to all!

Mikhail

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, 21:59 Douglas Yanega via Taxacom, <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
wrote:

> On 2/23/22 10:45 AM, Francisco Welter-Schultes via Taxacom wrote:
> > Is "probably" conditional? The Code Glossary defines a "conditional
> > proposal" as one with stated reservations. That should do it, for my
> > feeling.
> >
> Specifically:
>
> *conditional*,/a/.
>     (1) Of the proposal of a name or a type fixation: one made with
>     stated reservations [Art. 15.1
>     <
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> >].
>
> We would have to see the exact wording used, I think, but I'm inclined
> to not accept names like this - I suppose if it's in a "gray area" it
> might be best to just maintain the status quo; that is, if the name has
> been universally accepted since its proposal, then treat it as
> available, and if it has not been used as valid since its proposal, then
> treat it as unavailable.
>
> Peace,
>
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