Taxacom: demystifying gender agreement ( was Re: Removals of offending scientific names)

[George Beccaloni]

Yes, it would be a major change, but one IMHO for the best. I'm all for
simplicity, especially when that results in less ambiguity and confusion.
This is how it could work: the ICZN publishes a ruling that states that
from this time onwards, all name combinations published in taxonomic works,
should use the original published species/subspecies name. Large
nomenclatural databases like the Species Files could very easily switch to
using the original published names. Gradually the 'genderified' names would
die out in the literature, and life would be simpler for all who use
scientific names. At least there would be only one valid species
epithet per species, and no need to have to consult some massive database
(which would probably be full of errors, and which would be costly and
difficult to maintain and keep up to date).

George


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On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 at 18:29, Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> On 23-Jun-23 12:42 p.m., George Beccaloni via Taxacom wrote:
> > If species names are just labels/unique identifiers, and the original
> > published name is the most important, and gender agreement is complex to
> > get right and is confusing to amateurs etc, and making a massive list of
> > all names will be costly and difficult, and gender agreement is an
> outdated
> > practise from a previous era, and gender agreement might not be regarded
> as
> > 'inclusive' in this day and age, then its seems like a jolly good idea to
> > get rid of it and revert to the original published names!
>
> * but - oops - that would require changing all the names of
> nonlepidopteran species that have had their names changed for gender
> agreement with differently-gendered new genera they've been shuffled into.
>
> fred.
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