[Taxacom] New genus name in title
Stephen Thorpe
stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
Thu Jan 25 19:20:13 CST 2018
2018
"Why do you think it is unlikely, Stephen?"
Well, I was thinking about species. However,
Art. 8.1.1. it must be issued for the purpose of providing a public and permanent scientific record
One could get some leverage out of this for present purposes. "For purposes of advertisement" is not the purpose of providing a public and permanent scientific record.
At any rate, the Code is not "an exact science", and it would be silly to take too pedantic a view on some things that are actually unclear in the Code anyway, so one has to be pragmatic. Some nomenclatural problems are relatively major*, while others can be safely ignored.
* For example, this mess: Oparara Leschen & Lord, 2017 is a junior homonym of Oparara Forster & Wilton, 1973, or at least in would be if it were an available name, but no type depository was either stated or implied for the type and only originally included nominal species Oparara marskeae Leschen & Lord, 2017, which makes the latter an unavailable name, strictly speaking. Therefore, the genus lacks an (available) type species, so may itself be unavailable?
Stephen
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On Fri, 26/1/18, Francisco Welter-Schultes <fwelter at gwdg.de> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New genus name in title
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Received: Friday, 26 January, 2018, 1:42 PM
The Code has
this recommendation:
"Recommendation
9A. Authors to avoid unintentional publication in
abstracts.
Authors should not
include names and acts affecting zoological
nomenclature in abstracts of papers or posters
to be presented at
meetings. (For
disclaimer of abstracts volumes, see Recommendation
8G.)"
Abstracts of
papers can be published prior to the main paper, for
example for purposes of advertisement, this
depends on the journal. The
same may apply
to titles of papers in journal volumes.
Abstracts can be issued electronically by
paper-based journals before
the articles
are printed. These abstracts can be downloaded and printed
by others who just copy the information.
Authors could even include the
information
in their own works and publish quickly. Intentionally or
unintentionally.
The 4th Code edition has some regulations for
new names published after
1999 that should
prevent such mistakes, at least for species, because
more information than previously needed must be
attached to the new
name. However
unintentional establishment of a name is still possible in
an abstract, in a bad case even in a
title.
Mentioning a new genus name, one
included species, "gen. nov." and a
short description ("the only known mammal
with three legs") can suffice.
In the
case of a new replacement name even less. Abstracts of
papers
provide enough space to establish
validly names of genera and families.
Why
do you think it is unlikely, Stephen?
Francisco
Am
25.01.2018 um 22:43 schrieb Stephen Thorpe:
> It is extremely unlikely (under the
current Code) that enough information would be put in an
abstract to make a name available from the abstract, and
I'm not sure that abstracting services publish abstracts
before the article is published? At any rate, the waters of
publication dates are already well muddied in the brave new
world of electronic publication, for quite different reasons
(I've seen some pretty odd things happen on ZooBank,
relating to preregistration!)
>
> Stephen
>
>
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> On Fri, 26/1/18, Wolfgang Wuster <w.wuster at bangor.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New genus name in title
> To: "Peter Uetz" <peter at uetz.us>,
"taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu"
<taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Received: Friday, 26 January, 2018,
10:35 AM
>
>
From dim memory, there were
>
concerns, at least in the past, about the use of names in
> titles and abstracts resulting in them
being published by
> abstracting
services before the publication of the
> "official", intentional
description, muddying the
> waters as
to publication date etc.
>
>
> These concerns
may predate the
> 4th edition (which
contains additional safeguards against
> inadvertent publication of a name) -
not sure. Perhaps
> someone else can
advise?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Wolfgang
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________________________________
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From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> on behalf of Peter Uetz <peter at uetz.us>
> Sent: 25 January 2018 21:16
> To:
> taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New genus name
in
> title
>
>
> After having
looked at 10,000 descriptions of
>
reptiles (literally!) I find it rather annoying that a
lot
> of authors no not mention the
name of the new species (or
> genus),
neither in the title nor the abstract of their
> papers. How do we know what they are
talking about if they
> don’t say
it?
>
>
Journal
> editors and reviewers should
be a bit stricter with this
> kind of
stuff and make it mandatory that new names are
> actually mentioned in the title or at
least the abstract.
>
> http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/viewFile/zootaxa.4375.2.5/13578
>
>
>
> >
>
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> >
> > Date:
Wed, 24 Jan
> 2018 14:37:01 -0500
> > From: John Grehan
> <calabar.john at gmail.com>
> > To: taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> > Subject: [Taxacom] New genus name
in
> title
>
>
> > 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?
> >
>
> Many thanks,
> >
> > John Grehan
>
>
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