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[Taxacom] New species of the future

Gaimari, Stephen@CDFA stephen.gaimari at cdfa.ca.gov
Tue Oct 29 15:42:21 CDT 2013 

Except that they do not state it is an arbitrary combination of letters, and it is clearly not an arbitrary combination of letters. They give as the etymology:

"Cavernicolus means ?living in caves or caverns?, to emphasise that the species inhabits caves."

By the etymology, it is clearly not being treated as a noun in apposition (which would be "dweller in caves" or something similar).

Note also (although not being a botanist, I don't know what the general opinion is regarding this work), according to Gledhill (2008) - The Names of Plants, Fourth Edition - the entry for this word is: 
"cavernicolus -a -um growing in caves, cave-dwelling, caverna-colo"

Cheers,
Steve

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-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Dan Lahr
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:01 PM
To: Robert Mill
Cc: Taxa com
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New species of the future

Hi Robert,

The ICZN does not require any Latin correctness, only that the nomina are "pronounceable".  I copy here the relevant part of article 11.3, which deals with derivation:

"It may be an arbitrary combination of letters providing this is formed to be used as a word."

Hence, there is no need for an emendation (sensu stricto).

This is one of many compatibility issues we will have to eventually deal when nomenclature is unified -- it will have to be at some point.

On a personal note, I do sympathize with your view and would like to see more people care about how nomina are derived.

Best,

Dan

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Daniel J. G. Lahr
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Dept of Zoology, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil Office number: + 55 (11) 3091 0948



On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Robert Mill <R.Mill at rbge.ac.uk> wrote:

> Impressive stuff, except for one important and very basic thing - the 
> authors have neglected to check that  their epithet was spelled  correctly.
> It isn't - it should be cavernicola, not "cavernicolus".- All Latin 
> epithets ending in -cola denoting the habitat of the plant or animal 
> are spelled that way regardless of whether the genus is masculine, 
> feminine or neuter because the ending -cola  is treated as a noun in 
> apposition and therefore it is indeclinable. You cannot write 
> "cavernicolus" or "cavernicolum", or anything else -colus or -colum. 
> At least not in botany because Art. 23.5 of the ICN (Melbourne Code) 
> says that "-colus" and "-colum" endings are to be treated as 
> correctable errors, to -cola. There is an accompanying Example: "Ex. 
> 8. When Blanchard proposed Rubus ?amnicolus?, it was a correctable error for R. amnicola Blanch. (1906)".
>
> I trust that Biodiversity Data Journal will publish the necessary 
> correction in due course, assuming that the ICZN also requires that 
> incorrect endings such as -colus be corrected.
>
> The real point I am making is that before all the gee-whizz technology 
> and other stuff goes into any taxonomic paper, its authors must first 
> make sure that the epithets of their new taxa are correctly formed. 
> That and compliance with all the necessary Articles to validate their 
> name under the Code they are working with are fundamental - everything 
> else is icing on the cake.  (Very nice icing in this case.) Referees 
> and editors must also check that simple basic errors like this do not 
> get past the review process but are corrected before publication.
>
> Best wishes, Robert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:
> taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Lyubomir Penev
> Sent: 29 October 2013 10:43
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> Subject: [Taxacom] New species of the future
>
> *Eupolybothrus cavernicolus*, a cave-dwelling centipede discovered in 
> a remote karst region of Croatia, has become the first new eukaryotic 
> species described with fully sequenced transcriptomic profile, DNA 
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> Original article:*Eupolybothrus cavernicolus* Komeri?ki & Stoev sp. n.
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