Taxacom: code-criticizing paper found a publisher

[Neal Evenhuis]

Well, first off this statement in the compliant is incorrect:
"The ICZN does not preclude the use of non-taxon-specific prefixes in any article, and any rulings in WoRMS are purely personal overreach, and more importantly, seek to restrict the ability of nomenclature to reflect evolutionary relationships through restricting the ability to identify crown clades."

Formation of a family-group name is clearly outlined in the ICZN Code and what the author(s) of Neostromboidea missed (but WoRMS understood) was Art 29.1, which explains how such family group names are formed (= adding a suffix to the stem), and Article 29.3 how the "stem" of the name is determined (deleting the case-ending of a genus-group name).

Thus, one does not add a prefix to form an available family-group name. It can only be a suffix added to the to the stem of the type genus-group name.

Neal


On Stardate 6/22/22, 4:45 AM, "Taxacom" <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

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.

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%7C9477e011b23146ae67eb08da548014ac%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637915206931521253%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2Bbu3vM22bILz8pMlw2ZsWrzXGr%2Fq7cchul3ukar%2BJU0%3D&reserved=0 is the complaint

https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzookeys.pensoft.net%2Farticle%2F34381%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C9477e011b23146ae67eb08da548014ac%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637915206931521253%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=u8gCzhEKncm5nxReESH%2BT%2BREd0DflZUOB%2FPUu7tl93A%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.)

https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.paleoliste.de%2Fbandel%2Fbandel_2007a.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C9477e011b23146ae67eb08da548014ac%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637915206931521253%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uKzQcI%2B1jI5C3RW0kSnpr32mwaBAirDsmb7WdnQX9ZA%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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