[Taxacom] Question about labelling types

[Stephen Thorpe]

Exactly right John! Talk about a straw man! Some people are attributing to me ridiculous interpretations of what I actually said. Very odd ...

Stephen

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On Mon, 29/2/16, John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Question about labelling types
 To: "Karl Magnacca" <kmagnacca at wesleyan.edu>
 Cc: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>, "Geoffrey Read" <gread at actrix.gen.nz>
 Received: Monday, 29 February, 2016, 6:02 PM
 
 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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