Taxacom: Removals of offending scientific names

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 22-Jun-23 2:39 p.m., Douglas Yanega via Taxacom wrote:
> On 6/22/23 11:23 AM, George Beccaloni via Taxacom wrote:

>> Having worked on large electronic catalogues of names like the Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) and the Cockroach Species File, I am constantly irritated by the name changes caused by gender agreement. Such changes complicate databasing and the communication of taxonomic information.

> Then these catalogues and databases are not well-designed. It is entirely feasible to design a digital catalogue to indicate *and recognize* all the alternative spellings an adjectival species name can have, and (for example) change the spelling *automatically* if a species is moved to a genus of a different gender.
> 
> The world catalogue of Neuroptera, designed by John Oswald, gives all of the forms of all of the adjectival names, for example - for some 6,000 species. You could potentially do the same for the Cockroach Species File, which is slightly smaller than the Neuroptera list.

* I can remember being impressed that Don McAllister's 'Fishes of the 
World' database did gender agreement, back before they were called 
databases, in the 1970s, when buying 12K of memory for your computer was 
a big deal.

fred.
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