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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:33:14 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
To: List PhyloCode <PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Re: New Dinosauricon Taxon Pages: _Therizinosauria_
Here is my original post, sent in response to Keesey's post, which should also be preserved within the quoted corner-brackets "< >" of the text (ignoring those ">" preceeding each line of the forwarded text). Message: --- "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:44:28 -0800 (PST) > From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: New Dinosauricon Taxon Pages: _Therizinosauria_ > To: dinosaur@usc.edu > CC: mightyodinn@yahoo.com > > Mike Keesey (mightyodinn@yahoo.com) wrote: > > <My point was that if you want species names to be binomina, you have to > either a) make them stick with their original generic name (so it would > remain _Ornithodesmus latidens_), or suffer impermanent species names.> > > The binomen as offered is the species name, not the species name plus > some other name that can be changed. The binomen is now the label for > species, and it is the concept of the "genus" that is removed. The name > stays and is transfered to the species. It's been done before (Flynn et > al., JVP _20_), its hardly an alien and destructive force. The authors > refer to the whole complex (prefering n. tax.) as a single structure, > where plenty of nominative information can be contained in the binomen > _species_. Forget the genus-species complex. Its _species_ only. This is > the proposition. All species get their own "prima nomen", so that > *Tarbosaurus bataar*, however its related, is retained unless the > species > (*Tarbosaurus bataar*, not *bataar*) is synonymous with species of > another > taxon. Then the whole name is subsumed, prima nomen and secunda nomen > both. *Istiodactylus latidens*, if synonymous with *Ornithostoma > seeleyi*, > becomes *Ornithostoma seeleyi*. > > *Ornithomimus minuts* does not belong to *Ornithomimus velox*, and so > the name can be altered so that it is shown to be identical ... or it is > synonymized with another taxon. If no species is synonymous in this > regard, each species is unique and the name follows suit. > > I hope this is clear. > > Cheers, > > ===== > Jaime A. Headden > > Little steps are often the hardest to take. We are too used to making > leaps in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.. We > should all learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us > rather than zoom by it. > > "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969) > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > ===== Jaime A. Headden Little steps are often the hardest to take. We are too used to making leaps in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do. We should all learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it. "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com