[Taxacom] [iczn-list] provisions to the Code

[Stephen Thorpe]

specimen, n.
An example of an animal, or a fossil or work of an animal, or of a part of these. See Article 72.5 for the kinds of specimen eligible to be name-bearing types of nominal species-group nominal taxa.
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72.5. Eligibility as name-bearing types. Only the following are eligible to be a name-bearing type, or part of a name-bearing type, of a nominal species-group taxon:
72.5.1. an animal, or any part of an animal, or an example of the fossilized work of an animal, or of the work of an extant animal if the name based on it was established before 1931;
72.5.2. a colony of animals that exists in nature as a single entity, derived by asexual or vegetative multiplication from a single individual (e.g. a colony of cnidarians, such as corals), or part of such a colony;
72.5.3. in the case of fossils, a natural replacement, natural impression, natural mould, or natural cast of an animal or colony, or part of either;
72.5.4. in extant species of protistans, one or more preparations of directly related individuals representing differing stages in the life cycle (a hapantotype) [Art. 73.3];
72.5.5. a preparation for microscope examination (e.g. a "type slide") containing one or more individual organisms, in which the name-bearing types are clearly indicated and identifiable.
Recommendation 72C. Marking of important individuals. Whenever possible, authors establishing new nominal species-group taxa based upon microscope preparations containing more than one specimen (a "type slide") should mark distinctly the locations of specimens which are considered to be of crucial importance in demonstrating the taxonomic characters.
72.5.6. In the case of a nominal species-group taxon based on an illustration or description, or on a bibliographic reference to an illustration or description, the name-bearing type is the specimen or specimens illustrated or described (and not the illustration or description itself).
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Note that I am not saying that the observational record is the holotype. I am saying that the individual turtle that was observed is the holotype. It is analogous to 72.5.6., though the Code does not explicitly mention a case of a nominal species-group taxon based on an observational record. The Code doesn't explicitly rule this out. The individual turtle has simply been designated (specified) by way of the observational record. The Code is silent on what modes of specification are allowable, so all are ..
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Stephen


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From: Fred Schueler <bckcdb at istar.ca>
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu 
Sent: Monday, 14 April 2014 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] [iczn-list] provisions to the Code


On 4/13/2014 5:05 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
> None of this is relevant! Observational records or not, there is nothing in the Code which clearly invalidates Hoser's holotype designations! People are reading into the Code what suits their agenda, and not what is actually written!

* How is "specimen" defined in the Code? It seems to me that a Bird 
that's captured, handled and photographed or drawn, and released with 
the recognition that it's part of a systematic investigation, and as a 
substitute for a preserved specimen (in the usual sense) is different 
from a basking Turtle that's merely snapped as a record of "occurrence."

fred.
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