[Taxacom] Question about labelling types

[John Grehan]

It would be ridiculous indeed, but no one has suggested that kind of choice.

John Grehan

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Karl Magnacca <kmagnacca at wesleyan.edu>
wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 18:41:29, Geoffrey Read wrote:
> > Maybe I'm too cynical, but strange things can happen in one hundred
> > years of storage in a museum.
>
> Nope, they do indeed.  According to the insect curators at the NHM,
> the ones bearing "Holotype" labels among syntype series are merely
> those moved to a safe off-site location during WWII.  And it is
> relevant even if you could say "all things are equal".  E.g., for
> one of the groups I work on, the species "molokaiensis" has seven
> specimens representing five species in the syntype series, but only
> one is actually from Molokai.  Using one of the others as the
> lectotype simply because it has a post-hoc holotype label would be
> ridiculous.
>
> Karl
>
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