This note is fine by me. Michel On 08/02/13 20:48, Cantino, Philip wrote: > > Dear CPN members, > > Although the chairmanship of this committee isn't settled yet, I will > continue for now as de facto chairperson and send you the next item > for discussion. I hope everyone--and particularly the three new > members--had a chance to read the chronology I sent last Friday. No > one contacted me with any questions, which I suppose is good news > (though it could just mean that no one read it). > > At the end of the chronology was a list of three items the CPN still > needs to consider before we are done with the revisions that were > spurred by the CBM proposal regarding species. Here is the first of them. > > The addition of a new Note 11.7.1 was stimulated by a point made by > David Marjanovic in January, when we were discussing the whole set of > changes on Article 11. Bear in mind that the article this refers to > is not Art. 11.7 on the current (online) version of the code (version > 4c), but rather the new Art. 11.7 that the CPN approved on January 22. > Both the newly approved Art. 11.7 and the proposed Note 11.7.1 are > included in the attached document. > >
> > Here is the relevant email exchange on the listserv concerning Article > 11.7, and ending with a suggestion that a new note is needed: > > Marjanovic: These proposals are probably good enough in practice. The > only possible exception is in the proposed Art. 11.7: whether a > specimen "cannot be referred to a named species" will sometimes, > perhaps often, depend on the species criteria. What do you all think? > > Cantino: When faced with the situation David describes, many (perhaps > most) systematists who wanted to name a clade with the new specimen as > a specifier would either assign it to the previously named species or > name a new species with that specimen as a type. In either case, the > type would be used as a specifier. If the researcher thinks the > specimen does not belong to any previously described species but there > is some reason not to describe a new species based on it, then this is > one of the situations where it would be acceptable to use a non-type > as a specifier. In other words, the rule is working appropriately in > this situation. > > Marjanovic: So it's up to the author of the clade name, and their > decision can't be challenged later on the grounds that the specifier > is deemed (by the challenger) to belong to a named species? If so, > that's fine, but it should be spelled out in a note. > > >
> > Let's give ourselves a week to think about this. If you have > comments, please send them to the listserv < cpn at listserv.ohio.edu > <mailto: cpn at listserv.ohio.edu >>. If there is no discussion, I'll call > for a vote next Friday (unless someone else agrees to chair the CPN, > in which case the timing of the discussion and vote will pass to him > or her). > > Phil > > > > >
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