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[Les Kaufman]

As a dermatologist who had just suffered a rock-climbing accident, would
you defer to the advice of one of the world's leading neurosurgeons?

Les Kaufman
Boston University Marine Program
lesk at bio.bu.edu
617-353-5560 office
617-353-6965 lab
617-353-6340 fax


On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Riaan Stals, Flying wrote:

> Dear All:
>
> Martin Tribe wrote:
> > As far as I can see Warbling Vireo has been split into (Eastern) Warbling
> > Vireo Vireo gilvus and Western Warbling Vireo Vireo swainsoni. What I want
> > to know is:
> > 1. Is this an accepted split?
>
> Now I ask:
>
> When should a non-specialist taxonomist (e.g. a non-Vireo chap) *not*
> accept a taxonomic decision made by a specialist (i.e. a Vireo girl)?
> If ever? Or never? How much leeway should a taxonomist have in
> "interpreting" a taxonomic action taken by someone in a taxon other
> than one's own speciality?
>
> As an example, as budding curc / beetle person I have some doubts
> about the proliferation of names (?taxa) in the South African
> butterfly fauna. But who am I to [gently] challenge my Lep
> colleagues? And as another example, a new family of beetles was
> recently "split off" from an old,  larger family: should one
> willy-nilly accept the latest published opinion on such a matter?
>
>
> RIAAN STALS
>
>
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