Consultant reports and web pages as citable resources -- or not

[Thomas Lammers]

At 10:17 PM 11/10/02 -0800, Curtis Clark wrote:
>I'm not sure what you mean by "formal synonymies". It seems that either
>source could only generate nomina nuda, but if those are in use, they
>should be cited.

I prefer NOT to include names that are Not Validly Published (as defined by
ICBN) in the formal listing of nomenclature that usually starts off the
treatment of a species in a monographic account.  They have no standing
under the Code and emphatically are NOT names as defined by the
Code.  Instead, I would mention them in the text, saying, "Johnson (1878)
called this Planta alba but that name was never validated ..."


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and biogeography
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