[Taxacom] Costelytra zealandica - Epic fail!

Fri Oct 14 21:16:51 CDT 2016

Hi Ken,
I'm hoping that a petition to the ICZN may solve the problem here as well, but it is going to take a considerable amount of effort from more than just myself to pull it off. There actually are other problems with the Costelytra case which makes matters worse. C. zealandica is the nominal type species, so now the genus is based on a misidentified type species, and the authors didn't do anything to tidy that up either!
Cheers,
Stephen

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On Sat, 15/10/16, Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Costelytra zealandica - Epic fail!
 To: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Saturday, 15 October, 2016, 3:11 PM

  Hi all,

        I agree
 that it is unfortunate.  It is even worse when it involves
 a whole genus (like the whale genus Mesoplodon).  When I
 learned that E. R. Hall planned to revive one of the long
 forgotten synonyms of Mesoplodon (it was either Nodus or
 Micropteron, I've forgotten which) in the 2nd Edition of
 the reference book Mammals of North America, I told him that
 I was going to petition the ICZN to suppress those names.

 And then when I told him that he was supposed to maintain
 existing usage until the ICZN ruled, he was furious.  As I
 recall, he used one of those two forgotten generic names
 anyway when it was published in 1981.  Thankfully the ICZN
 unanimously approved our petition to suppress those generic
 names four years later:

 HISTORY OF THE CASE Z.N.(S.)2081

 An application for the
 conservation of Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850
 was
 first received from Dale W. Rice {U.S. Fish and Wildlife
 Service,
 Seattle. Washington, U.S.A.) in
 1965. A second application in the same
 sense
 was received from Dr Kenneth E. Kinman (University of
 Kansas) in
 November 1977. A joint
 application by both authors was eventually sent to
 the printer on 9 October 1979 and published on
 25 April 1980 in Bull. zool.
 Norn. vol. 37,
 pp. 30-33. Public notice of the possible use of the
 plenary
 powers in the case was given in the
 same part of the Bulletin as well as to the
 statutory serials, to seven general serials and
 two mammalogical serials. No
 comment was
 received.

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 on behalf of Michael A. Ivie <mivie at montana.edu>
 Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 6:46 PM
 To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Costelytra zealandica -
 Epic fail!

 We need people
 to  understand and internalize that maintaining
 established usage in a complex case is the
 height of scholarship, and
 having to change
 it is a failure of scholarship.  Yes, sometimes there
 is no way out, but searching for a way to
 promote stability is the path
 of
 righteousness.

 Mike

 On 10/14/2016
 5:33 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
 > Hi
 all,
 >
 > FYI, an
 unfortunate article has just been published:
 >
 > Coca-Abia, M.M.;
 Romero-Samper, J. 2016: Establishment of the identity of
 Costelytra zealandica (White 1846) (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae:
 Melolonthinae) a species commonly known as the New Zealand
 grass grub. New Zealand entomologist, doi:
 10.1080/00779962.2016.1230254
 >
 > This article attempts to change the name
 of one of N.Z.'s most significant insect pests! There is
 absolutely no need for the name to be changed. Art. 75.6 (
 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/index.jsp?article=75
 ) of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
 should instead be invoked to maintain prevailing usage of
 the name Costelytra zealandica, and prevailing usage
 maintained until the Commission makes a ruling!
 International Code of Zoological
 Nomenclature<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/index.jsp?article=75>
 www.nhm.ac.uk
 75.1. Definition.
 A neotype is the name-bearing type of a nominal
 species-group taxon designated under conditions specified in
 this Article when no name-bearing type ...

 >
 > My opinions will
 probably be ignored around here, so I hope others will get
 involved to try to clean up this mess! We really don't
 want people renaming well entrenched names when doing so is
 not necessary!
 >
 >
 Stephen
 >
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