Re: "Last modified on July 1, 2002"

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<What about an article that allows to correct preexisting names when
converting them? For example, Ceratopsidae, named after Ceratops, should
be Ceratopidae. Same for Protoceratopsidae. All comparable names
(Brachyopidae and Brachyopoidea, for instance) don't have that s. Some
people have been crusading for years to get that change done (impossible
under ICZN), at least for the vernacular forms (and for Ceratopsia,
Neoceratopsia, Ceratopsomorpha which aren't governed by any code).
Regarding species, Sinovenator changii and Halimornis thompsoni have been
named after women in this year, not to mention Jeholornis prima,>

  Nothing is wrong with the name *Jeholornis prima*. The etymology is
"first Jehol bird", and adjuncting it to a clause on erroneous stems
honoring women seems puzzling.

<and the ICZN doesn't allow to correct these anymore, to the, in my
opinion, eternal shame of not just their authors but all subsequent users
that know some Latin, and to that of the ICZN itself.>

  You can either deal with it, or appeal to the ICZN. Simple. The ICZN
does allow for application, and gender issue things are, in these days of
editing, a matter of the authors', and thus their error is not means of
supplying alternate nomenclature or applicatory nomenclature.
*Hypsilophodon foxii* has not, I believe, ever been emended when it could
have. I am hoping the next edition of the ICZM permits revision for gender
issues, though....

<Fortunately the rules of the current version suffice to resolve the
Ric_ardoestesia problem which I'll spare here to those that don't know it.
:-)>

  Depends on where the error came from.

  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.

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