[tcs-lc] Misspelled Names and Orthographic Variants (Issue 005)

Richard Pyle deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Thu Apr 28 16:01:12 PDT 2005


More on Roger's embedded comments:

> assuming here that 'junior homonym' means later homonym
> Note that a homonymic relationship is name-name there can be
> countless concepts that use these names and they will never
> effect the fact that two names were published with the same name

Actually, "junior" is the critical word here. In most cases, the "junior" is
also "later" -- but there are exceptions to this (e.g., when an earlier name
is supressed via plenary powers of the ICZN) where "later" is "senior".
So..."LaterHomonymOf" should really be "JuniorHomonymOf".

Rich




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