[Taxacom] Validity of species/subspecies

[Ayhan Senkardesler]

Dear Javier,

My question would be: Are talking about plants or animals?

In ICNafp:

"11.2. A name has no priority outside the rank in which it is 
published." (see http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=art11)

I know that it sounds unfair, however, you can give a brand-new name to 
subspecies, if you raising it to species level; and you will get the 
authorship too, e.g. *Xx zz Javier*.

It is up to you (or to the author): She/he can propose a new combination 
at species level (this would be wise in my opinion), or give a new name 
with new authorship (this I called tricky way).

On the other hand, I don't know the situation in Zoological Code. 
Therefore I was asking you whether you talking about plants or animals.

Best wishes,

Ayhan

On 10.04.2014 09:20, Javier Luque wrote:
> Dear Taxacomers,
>
> A quick question. Imagine two subspecies: the extant *Xx xx xx, *and the
> fossil *Xx xx yy*.  Someone proposed that the fossil subspecies was
> different enough from species *Xx xx* to deserve full specific status, and
> therefore named it *Xx zz**.  *Note that, instead of elevating subspecies *Xx
> xx yy* to the species rank (i.e. *Xx yy*), the author gave it a new
> specific epithet (i.e. *Xx zz*).  Here is the question: is *Xx zz *a valid
> species?  Or should the subspecies *yy* have priority as the specific
> epithet?
>
> Thanks for your time and help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Javier
>


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Dr. Ayhan Senkardesler
Ege University Faculty of Science Dept. of Biology
http://akademik.ege.edu.tr/?q=tr/bilgiler&id=2808



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