[tcs-lc] Next 4 days...

[Paul Kirk]

'fraid I disagree Roger. Under the ICBN there can be only one form (spelling) of a name - the others are orthographic variants of that ONE name. It is critical that we can 'account for' (track) these names variants but to define them as different names is not the logical way to do that. Under your definition I assume that Homo sapeins and Homo spaiens and Homo sapens (ad nauseum) are 'new' names? Sounds dangerous to me. Index Fungorum will eventually assign LSIDs to each name it indexes but will track orthographic variants outside this function (as it will missaplications of those names).

There are two responses to your last question - "Hey, you should have spelt it correctly in the first place" or "The change was mandated by the current Code".

Still undecided on an option until we reach a decision on what is a name.

Cheers,

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Hyam
To: tcs-lc at ecoinformatics.org
Sent: 16/03/05 08:04
Subject: Re: [tcs-lc] Next 4 days...


Hi Rich,

I go for C. - Different letters or same letters in a different order are

a different name.  But... and this is important. The fact that something

is an authographic variant of another name is a matter of opinion. It 
might be an opinion that everyone would agree with but I think it is 
still an opinion and should be modeled as such. Some one could come 
along at a later date and say "Hey! What happened to my species name?"

Roger





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