Re: ICZN List of Rejects

[Stan Friesen <swf@ElSegundoCA.ATTGIS.COM>]

 From: Phillip Bigelow <n8010095@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
 > 
 > Stan wrote:
 > 
 > >By the way, I have a copy of the official Index of Rejected Names
 > >and the List of Conserved Names.
 > 
 >   I have ocassionally seen tiny one-paragraph rulings of the ICZN published
 > in the Journal of Paleontology.  Are these excerpts of the Index you
 > mention? 

It's sort of the other way around.  Those rulings may *result* in
a name being added to the Index and/or List.

If the ruling says a name has been rejected or suppressed, at least
in some context, that constitutes an addition to the Index, if the
ruling says a anem is to be conserved in some context, then that is
an addition to the List.

The rules of zoological nomenclature specify a particular journal
in which such ruling *must* be published (I forget its name, though).
Publication in J. of Paleontology is strictly optional, and is probably
done by the editors of that journal as a service to subscribers.

[On the other hand, if the ruling says no special action is to be
taken, then no changes occur].

 > Is the list published monthly, quarterly, yearly, or once in a blue moon? 
 > 

I am not sure of the exact schedule, I ordered the stuff from the
Society a few years ago, and I got an "addendum" of newly added names
a little over a year ago.  But I may have had to order even that,
so such addenda may be published yearly.

[Actually the format is rather strange - the Index and the List
are folded together in one document, differentiated by type face].

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