Taxacom: Superfluous replacement names (Zoo Code)

[Stephen Thorpe]

 Hi Geoff,I think unnecessary replacement names just get treated straightforwardly as junior homotypic synonyms. They are available names and may be valid if the earlier name turns out to be a homonym or unavailable for some reason.Cheers, Stephen
    On Thursday, 18 July 2024 at 03:59:13 pm NZST, Geoff Read via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:  
 
 Hello,
Maybe someone could advise whether I'm on the right track with this comment
below. It doesn't seem to be a situation explicitly dealt with in the Zoo
Code that I can see, but we at WoRMS occasionally find these unnecessary
new names.  Unjustified emendation is more for spelling alterations of a
few characters in the code examples given, but here I would like to apply
it to a whole new name.  'Substitute name' is what these new names are
mostly categorised as when mentioned in the Code, but how to treat them
when they are unnecessary does not seem to be explained.
"Nomenclature. Junior objective synonym (Capitella fabricii is a
superfluous replacement name for C capitata). When Blainville named genus
Capitella he named the species as Capitella fabricii, a new name for
Lumbricus capitatus. It can be treated as an unjustified emendation
(Article 33.2) and is not possible in nomenclature, but sometimes early
taxonomists tried to do this. It would be anarchy if original species-group
names could be replaced by a different species-group name in later
publications without a reason. Mostly subsequent taxonomists ignored this
name, or only included it as a junior synonym to C. capitata, but Grube
(1850) used it as valid."
Blainville (1828: 443) is here: 
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fpage%2F25316968&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cbf402b01e8ab494f992e08dca6e5584c%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638568751157811194%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7QDN2G1Uu7TVKq9xBaV740HUGlAU5O45leG1DTgw4fs%3D&reserved=0

Cheers,Geoff 
-- 
Geoffrey B. Read, Ph.D. 
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND 
gread at actrix.gen.nz

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