[Taxacom] Naming species to offend rival taxonomists

[Richard Petit]

David:

There was no dispute between Lamarck and Deshayes. Lamarck was idolized by 
Deshayes. In his second edition of Lamarck's "Histoire naturelle des animaux 
sans vertèbres", Deshayes went to great lengths to conserve names introduced 
by Lamarck that should have been placed in synonymy.

dick p.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Campbell" <pleuronaia at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Naming species to offend rival taxonomists


> Although I do not know of a particular dispute between Deshayes and
> Lamarck, Meretrix lamarckii Deshayes, 1853 is not exactly
> complementary.
>
> A different sort of questionable compliment comes from the genera
> Walterigalba Kruglov and Starobogatov, 1985b and Walterlymnaea
> Starobogatov and Budnikova, 1976.  Given that Walter suggested that
> the entire family Lymnaeidae was a single genus and less than 40
> extant species worldwide, would he have appreciated having new taxa
> named for him?  Walterlymnaea is also an objective senior synonym of
> Catascopium, which was based solely on molecular differences and on
> not thoroughly researching the literature.
>
> -- 
> Dr. David Campbell
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> The Paleontological Research Institution
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