David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:
<Erm...
It will be easy if all those names are registered by the same author(s). This,
in turn, will be relatively easy if my proposal to the PhyloCode mailing list
on averting the dangers of the Companion Volume gets through. Otherwise, it'll
be a race -- first come, first served.>
That would not be a tremendously difficult and problematic issue. Imagine
that Hermann von Meyer has been dead over a century, so someone ELSE will have
to "register" the name FOR him, or do it for themselves.
Er... yes, of course. Where's the problem?
In which case, despite
more prevalent usage of Hesperornithiformes, it is likely Clarke will register
Hesperornithes to the same definition to establish a priority FIRST.
I have a BETTER solution.
So have I :-)
This will, as Sereno suggests, require DISCUSSION, and that will take a while. Decades. I would argue longer, a century.
We can try to recommend just
treating definitions as a state of priority, rather than the name itself, since
there is actually two issues here: nomenclatural stability, and taxonomic
stability, that may require two separate systems to consider.
~:-|
It would be nice if the ICZN would just drop ranks, and recognize suprageneric clades in general, rather than just families.