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> From: dipteryx at freeler.nl
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 10:16:30 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] BioNames and others names
> 
> From: "Richard Pyle" <deepreef at bishopmuseum.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 6:43 AM
> 
> > Stephen is wrong about "Lots".  But I don't blame him.  The reason it 
> > seems like "lots" is, ultimately, the same reason almost no two people
> > agree on what a "taxon name" is. [...]
> 
> ***
> This must be a good candidate for "Most Gross Exaggeration
> of the Year". There will be wide agreement (likely a
> comfortable majority) that the scientific name of a taxon,
> in the case of a species is the binomial / binomen,
> or in the case of a lower ranking taxon the trinomial / trinomen.
> 
> For zoologists there are some points of confusion:
> * the status of the "specific name" / "subspecific name"
> * not all "scientific names" are "available names"
> * the question if separate orthographical variants are
>    separate scientific names
> But under the ICNafp there is no confusion on these
> points, so these are strictly localized sources of confusion.
> 
> It looks to me that the big real source of confusion is 
> (and remains) that taxonomy is (and remains) dynamic, 
> and that there are so many who claim that there is only 
> one single correct taxonomic point of view (namely, theirs).
> * * *
> 
> > The exact same thing is happening in taxon-name-database 
> > sphere.  To an outside observer, it might appear that what
> > Catalog of Life, and Encyclopedia of Life, and GBIF, and 
> > Bionames, and ION, and Global Names Architecture, and 
> > ZooBank, and IPNI, and Tropicos, and Index Fungorum, 
> > and any of dozens of other nomenclators, species indexers, 
> > checklist-makers, etc. are all "doing the same thing".
> 
> ***
> Of these, only Tropicos appears to be mapping different
> taxonomic usages. 
> 
> (And yes, I must admit that I don't see any real differences 
> between the 'aggregators', except in the interface they use, 
> etc).
> 
> Paul
>  
> 
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