Taxacom: emmendation

[John Grehan]

Thanks Thomas. This seems to me to be a bit of a quagmire, especially if an
emendation does not have to be explicit to be characterized as such (which
begs the question of how does one know if it is not explicit).

This arises in my case from a past catalog of the Hepialidae (Nielsen,
E.S., Robinson, G.S. & Wagner, D. L. 2000. Ghost-moths of the world: a
global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and
Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera). Journal of Natural History 34: 823-878.) where
they list about 40 emendations, but do not say how they reached those
conclusions. I have looked at a couple of the original publications so far,
and it's beyond me to see in any obvious way. At the very least I guess I
will list these names as emendations and cite Nielsen et al for that (and
let others figure out their veracity should they so wish). As these names
are synonyms to the accepted name, the emendation, or not, is not critical
for my purposes.

John

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 11:13 AM Thomas Pape via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> An emendation is any demonstrably intentional change in the original
> spelling of a name other than a mandatory change.
>
> This means that the *intent* to change the original spelling must be
> somehow demonstrable, but it does not have to be explicit.
> It also means that it does not matter whether or not the change is
> linguistically correct.
>
> /Thomas Pape
>
>
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> Here's a right ignorant question. I have not previously dealt with
> emmendations, but now that comes up with various species synonyms having
> been so designated. Am I correct to understand that an emendation is a
> correction of the original name to conform to correct Latin or Greek? And
> if that is correct, how does one recognize an emendation as opposed to a
> misspelling? Does one have to know Latin or Greek to make a judgement if
> the emmendation was made without explanation?
>
> John Grehan
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