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Taxacom: Quick question RE availability of a name in zoology (was animal, now pseudofossil)

Scott Thomson scott.thomson321 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 16:32:33 CST 2023


Heya yeah I agree with Thomas here, the name still competes for Homonymy
despite no longer being available in this situation.

Cheers Scott

Em seg., 30 de jan. de 2023 ?s 14:56, Tony Rees via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> escreveu:

> Thanks David. The concretion/gastropod name to which you refer above
> is Dinocochlea, on which there is a good overview article (with photograph
> of cast or model) on Wikipedia.
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 00:24, David Campbell via Taxacom <
> taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
>
> > >
> > >  Which potentially contradicts the work of animals (proposed after
> 1930)
> > > being excluded from the provisions of the Code. What if the work of an
> > > animal was originally mistaken for an animal itself?
> > >
> >
> > Although there has been debate about the exact interpretation, the
> > consensus seems to be that names invalidated under these provisions are
> > ones proposed knowing that the taxon fell into one of the categories, not
> > ones corrected by subsequent discovery.  The work of modern animals  is
> > contrasted nomenclaturally with fossilized traces, which are still
> nameable
> > under the ICZN code.  I don't remember the genus now, but there's a name
> > originally proposed to be a fossil gastropod, reinterpreted as a plant,
> and
> > now recognized as a spiral coprolite.  The genus can be used for
> coprolites
> > and could not be re-used for animals.
> >
> > As another example, there was considerable debate over using the genus
> > name *Cornu
> > *in gastropods, because the original specimen was a mutant individual.
> > However, in the description, Born (1778) shows no awareness that he had a
> > weird mutant form of a common species, so the genus *Cornu *is available.
> >
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