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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 16:09:26 -0600 (CST)
From: "Jonathan R. Wagner" <znc14@TTACS.TTU.EDU>
To: PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Addendum 5: Simultaneous publication of generic epithets
Draft item (Recommendation 10E?) for PhyloCode, Article 10
Recommendation 10E: For consistancy, new names that are published as genus-
or subgenus-rank names under concurrent codes should not be registered as
clade names until rules for the formal recognition of species-entities are
admitted to the Code. This recommendation is not intended to discourage the
use of new or preexisting clade names as "placeholders" for the
genus-category in Linnean binomials.
Example: An author publishing the new genus and species _Phister crunchman_*
should not attempt to simulteaneously register his genus as a clade named
Phister. However, if he had defined Phister as clade, and no genus name was
available for species _crunchman_, he might use Phister as a substitute for
the genus.
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* Please note, do to the vagaries of the ICZN code, we may wish to
substitute a real binomial, no matter how confusing, as publication of this
name would create a _nomen nudum_!
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Jonathan R. Wagner, Dept. of Geosciences, TTU, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053
"Why do I sense we've picked up another pathetic lifeform?" - Obi-Wan Kenobi