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

Roger Hyam roger at hyam.net
Fri Apr 29 02:15:16 PDT 2005


Roger replies to Rich's comments on his notes in the instance document.

>>I am assuming we are talking botany because the way you
>>cite the combination authors but the first two look zoological
>>which confuses me.
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>
>I intentionally mixed & matched styles to ambiguate the Code.  Other than
>the attribute "nomenclaturalCode", it shouldn't matter -- right?
>
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The schema handles both but we might mark up things differently 
depending on which code they are in. This is why we need to start 
talking about concrete examples if not we will continue to flounder 
around in conjecture land without testing anything for real.

>>I have left out 15 as I don't know quite what you are on about here.
>>    
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>
>Suppose Smith describes two species: Aus bus and Aus fus.  Then Jones comes
>along and decides that these should be treated as conspecifics, but are
>worthy of recognition as distinct subspecies; so we have:
>
>Aus bus subsp. bus Smith
>Aus bus subsp fus Smith
>
>[As I said, not sure whether Jones factors into the authorship in this case
>for botanical purposes.]
>
>Now suppose Brown comes along and mistakenly assigns nomenclatural priority
>to Aus fus, and thus represents the same two subspecies as:
>
>Aus fus subsp. fus Smith
>Aus fus subsp. bus Smith
>
>These are incorrect orhtographic variants (misassigned priorities).  In
>ICZN, there are rules for establishing the priority (i.e., which one remains
>as the valid species name, and which exists only as a subordinate
>subspecies) -- I'm not sure how it works in botany (when both epithets are
>created in the same publication).
>
>It's not a common problem -- but one that I thought might help illuminate
>the fundamental question of, "what is a NameObject?"
>
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>
I think you just treat them all as names if people have used them. If 
they haven't then you wouldn't bother.
Please supply a real example and I will mark it up.

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