Mysticete
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Affiliation wise I was considering the journal's AOS publishes. IIRC, you are required to use the most recent taxonomy. Granted this just consists of Ornithology and Ornithological Applications (and speaking of names, boy do those also suck). But still its an influence. Neotropical bird guides however have never felt strongly obligated to follow checklist committees, so I suppose for SACC this really won't mean much.I've not heard/seen anything to the contrary.
What really matters in this day and age is what eBird and IOC do, and to a lesser degree what gets published in field guides. WGAC is already handily the biggest challenge to NACC and SACC and their authority. I don't think affiliation or lack of affiliation with AOS actually will matter the slightest but perhaps I'm wrong here?
But yes WGAC is probably the biggest challenge going forward. Which sort of makes the current common name decision...poorly timed to say the least