[Taxacom] A nomen nudum in Bombus

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 03-Jun.-21 4:12 a.m., Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom wrote:
>   Andrew,I respectfully disagree. Code compliance is preferable but not vital. There is bad science on both sides, i.e. code compliant and code non-compliant, and good science on both sides. If a name can be unambiguously linked to a species, then we should use it...

* how about just putting the not-code-compliant or ambiguous part of the 
name in quotes, so search engines will find it, but you won't be using 
it as a formal name? It's not certain which species our eastern Ontario 
Chorus Frogs should be assigned to, so I use the mtDNA-endorsed 
'Pseudacris "maculata"' for them, and you'd think the same thing would 
work when a nomen nudem is the only handle available to reference a species.

But I see I've been anticipated by an hour -

On 03-Jun.-21 6:31 a.m., Thomas Pape via Taxacom wrote:

> It sometimes happens that non-compliant names are published, and by that they gain existence. We can (and should) encourage the authors to remedy the situation in a new publication, but we cannot make an already published nomen nudum or otherwise unavailable name 'go away'.
> 
> The question is how to best approach such situations (1) when referring back to that first occurrence and (2) when dealing with the taxon until a Code-compliant name is available.
> 
> Any listing or other use of an unavailable name should clearly indicate its status as such. This is routinely done in catalogues, but it can be done in any other publication as well.
> 
> Taking the current example, this could be done like this:
> 
> Bombus 'incognitus' (Christmas et al. 2021; unavailable name) at the first occurrence, and in the following use Bombus 'incognitus'.

fred.
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