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Richard Klim
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It's surely in the interests of the leading ornithological authorities/publishers to establish a joint fund which would pay Jiří Mlíkovský to abandon his determined mission to unearth evidence for the invalidation of long-established nomenclature! 
It's surely in the interests of the leading ornithological authorities/publishers to establish a joint fund which would pay Jiří Mlíkovský to abandon his determined mission to unearth evidence for the invalidation of long-established nomenclature!
I would think the publishers are funding him -- one more reason why we all need updated versions of our books o
Niels :-O
DMW
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What is the convention where an old and (apparently) obscure and overlooked publication contains a valid description of a species? Is there a strict "rules is rules" approach, in which case you can presumably have entire genuses (genii?) and potentially even families requiring change, or does everybody just cough politely and look the other way?
MJB
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It's surely in the interests of the leading ornithological authorities/publishers to establish a joint fund which would pay Jiří Mlíkovský to abandon his determined mission to unearth evidence for the invalidation of long-established nomenclature!
What's JM's post-publication success rate? There have been several subsequent refutations; eg amaliae was short-lived, giving way to hemprichii in the developing story of Siberian Stonechat.
MJB
alytothrix
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For old names that haven't been used since 1899, they can potentially be ignored as nomen oblitum under section 23.9 of the ICZN code. If the name has been used after 1899 but replacing the younger name is undesirable due to widespread usage, one can appeal to the ICZN to suppress the older name.
DMW
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Thanks for the explanation.
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