Taxacom: Superfluous replacement names (Zoo Code)

[Geoff Read]

Hello Laurent,

As it is Blainville's own genus, the way to avoid tautonymy was to name the genus differently. Blainville did seem to favour descriptive genus names so he had the necessary imagination to do that.
Thanks for a very interesting suggestion, nevertheless.  Unfortunately, we have no idea if Blainville had an aversion to tautonymies. If so he would be upset that a species name of his later became Mops mops, a Malaysian bat. 

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



>---- Original Message ----
>From: Laurent Raty via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
>To: taxacom at lists.ku.edu
>Sent: Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 7:41 PM
>Subject: Re: Taxacom: Superfluous replacement names (Zoo Code)
>
>Hi,
>
>It seems obvious that Capitella fabricii Blainville must have been 
>intended as a new replacement name (nomen novum; see Art. 12.2.3) for 
>Lumbricus capitatus Fabricius, introduced by Blainville to avoid a 
>situation of virtual tautonymy. (I.e., to avoid using a binomen that 
>would combine a generic and specific name of same derivation.)
>
>This replacement was certainly not made "without a reason"; but it was 
>made for a reason that the current Code does not recognize as valid (see 
>Art. 18).
>
>Cheers, Laurent -
>
>
>On 7/18/24 05:57, Geoff Read via Taxacom 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%7C925d0de19fbc4d9fe36408dca721fb94%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638569013002961411%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VwgL2psw%2Fc0Uho7kNlGXxm7H%2BXJb7h1dvuhhU4p%2Bh2s%3D&reserved=0
>>
>> Cheers,Geoff
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