[Taxacom] Creating a new name can be easier than it seems

[Stephen Thorpe]

in the abstract in which the name allegedly became available, the authors say: [quote]As a result, we are describing a new genus, Multipseudechiniscus and reassigning Pseudechiniscus raneyi to the new genus as Multipseudechiniscus raneyi with an updated description, drawings, and images[unquote]
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it is not clear that this satisfies:?
Article 16. Names published after 1999.
16.1. All names: intention of authors to establish new nominal taxa to be explicit. Every new name published after 1999, including new replacement names (nomina nova), must be explicitly indicated as intentionally new.
Recommendation 16A. Means of explicitly indicating names as intentionally new. To avoid uncertainty about their intentions, authors proposing new names (nomina nova), including new replacement names, are advised to make their intentions explicit by using in headings, or at first use of new names in proposals, appropriate abbreviations of Latin terms such as "fam. nov.", "g. nov.", "sp. nov.", "ssp. nov.", or some strictly equivalent expression such as "new family", "new genus", "new species", "new subspecies", "n. fam.", "n. g.", "n. sp.", "n. ssp.", "nomen novum". 
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Article 16.1 can reasonably be interpreted as meaning that the intention of the authors to establish a new nominal taxon *therein* must be explicit. However, the above quote can reasonably be interpreted as meaning that the intention of the authors was?to establish a new nominal taxon *in a later publication* ...
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Stephen


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From: Curtis Clark <lists at curtisclark.org>
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Sent: Saturday, 17 December 2011 6:01 PM
Subject: [Taxacom] Creating a new name can be easier than it seems

Interesting letter to the editor in the most recent American Scientist. 
American Scientist might have inadvertently published a new genus of 
tardigrades, except that it had already been published in an abstract.

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/tardigrade-transgression

Back when the old ICBN required Latin for descriptions and diagnoses, 
this sort of thing didn't happen often for plants.

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