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

[laurent raty]

On 04/15/2014 06:54 PM, Doug Yanega wrote:
> the only - I repeat, ONLY - provision in the Code that allows for the
> holotype to be something other than a physical specimen is Art.
> 73.1.4, which permits authors to explicitly designate illustrations
> as types. After 2000, THERE ARE NO OTHER ALLOWED EXCEPTIONS.

However hard I try, Art.73.1.4 clearly doesn't do this, nor anything 
close to this. Read it again:

> "Designation of an illustration of a single specimen as a holotype
> IS TO BE TREATED AS designation of the specimen illustrated"

The ONLY thing that this sentence does, is to allow the (weird) 
designation of *an illustration* (ie, not a specimen at all) as a 
holotype, by making this equivalent to the (expected) designation of the 
illustrated specimen. The article is completely silent about whether the 
specimen in question must be physical or not. That the designation of an 
illustrated specimen is allowed, is assumed from the beginning, hence 
the article cannot be seen as being instrumental in it.

Cheers,
Laurent -