[Taxacom] New genus name in title
Frederick W. Schueler
bckcdb at istar.ca
Wed Jan 24 14:46:42 CST 2018
2018
On 1/24/2018 2:37 PM, John Grehan wrote:
> This is a bit of an ignorant question, but did not find an answer in the
> code of zoological nomenclature (not to say that it is not there, just that
> I have not seen it). I would be interested to know what the code says about
> a new genus being mentioned in the title of a paper before it is actually
> described and diagnosed within the paper. Is it permissible by the code?
* just empirically, titles like "A new genus of Popsidoodleidae from
Gumbuts Corners" are infuriating if you're going back to look for
references to the genus that's been described.
fred.
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