Taxacom: Taxacom Digest, Vol 194, Issue 12

[Les Watling]

People who are more wise than me in the aspects of the Code, etc., will
need to weigh in but I wonder whether the issue is more that WoRMS doesn't
recognize "clade" as a rank. Within the Amphipoda they do recognize between
Order and Superfamily the ranks, Suborder, Infraorder, and Parvorder. I
think these ranks are often used in some insect groups but may not be
universally accepted.

As for the name of the "clade" they didn't add a prefix to a stem, then
added it to a name that has a specific ending for its rank, and then
suggest their new group is at a different rank. I think that is a "no can
do."

Best,
Les



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> Not too sure what the point is of publishing in a place unlikely to be seen
> by those that it tries to criticize, and not a good critique, either, but
> might be worth being aware of.  Basically, the complaint is that WoRMS
> rejects the authors' name that was constructed inappropriately by adding a
> prefix to the stem genus, but they take quite a while to get to the point.
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> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2Fdoi%2F10.1111%2Fjwip.12236&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cad4bc47be5a54bc7baf808da54799eb1%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637915178590773500%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=H1H6WXvSVcfpgcy4NrrlgTRPurDi5Oi%2F9Pbm9IMAAPU%3D&reserved=0
> is the complaint
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> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzookeys.pensoft.net%2Farticle%2F34381%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cad4bc47be5a54bc7baf808da54799eb1%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637915178590773500%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1VJX%2BLcxIItABLwpNFqmVxaSBW5aZyPM5a9noktVRzk%3D&reserved=0
> is the paper by the same first
> author, which WoRMS does not accept the name Neostromboidea from, not being
> Code-compliantly derived from *Strombus*.  (I think that it would be
> recognizable under the PhyloCode, but it is not ICZN-compliant.)
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> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.paleoliste.de%2Fbandel%2Fbandel_2007a.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cad4bc47be5a54bc7baf808da54799eb1%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637915178590773500%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5LlVenkRoD4mnB92S4Vc7jbk91XhdMAPdSSuM9VvxBk%3D&reserved=0
> is the paper accused of
> having name(s?) being accepted despite not providing a description.  For
> me, I had to open the link in a new window and then refresh it before the
> pdf actually appeared.  It is true that the descriptions of new subgenera
> often do not clearly indicate which features distinguish the subgenus
> versus being species-level distinctives.  New subgenera within *Strombus
> *are
> grouped under headings that give a brief description of the group and thus
> technically provide characters differentiating the subgenus from some other
> subgenera, though not from all others.  Under each subgenus. species within
> the subgenus, including the type, are discussed.  Differences with species
> from other subgenera are noted, but not necessarily clearly labeled as
> distinctives of the subgenus.
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