[Taxacom] [iczn-list] Fraudulent alteration of databases to commit scientific theft and fraud.

[Stephen Thorpe]

Even if Hoser doesn't know that the holotype has the relevant diagnostic characters, it doesn't undermine the availability of the name. It just means that someone down the track may have to synonymise it, but that is a taxonomic issue.
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Stephen


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From: "jkoler at ccountry.net" <jkoler at ccountry.net>
To: Neal Evenhuis <neale at bishopmuseum.org> 
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] [iczn-list] Fraudulent alteration of databases to commit scientific theft and fraud.


Neal said: > There is nothing in the Code that requires an author to
actually handle,
> see, or have in front of him actual specimens. Bibliographic reference is
> allowed (which means an author is not actually "seeing" specimens), and
> that has been abused in the past to make available names in a quick and
> dirty fashion. By using specimens from a database, Hoser was essentially
> doing the same thing -- vicariously slecting actual specimens that were
> identified as X from a certain locality and he knew these to be different
> from other taxa and described them as new giving the defining characters.
> But he did not actually "see" the specimens.

I know nothing about these specimens nor their appearance in a data base
as "occurrence." BUT I am confused. Are the relevant diagnostic traits
visible in a picture of this "occurrence" holotype, or are there
measurements, drawings or photos of the specimen Hoster chose as holotype
for this new species in a reference he cited? If not, then how can he know
the holotype is indeed a different species than it was originally
identified as belonging to? Have I missed some important factors?

Jan 



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