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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3291737" data-attributes="member: 24811">I know little of the nomenclature of extinct Marsupials, but Macleay's <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomaturus" target="_blank">Zygomaturus</a> is currently treated as valid. Thus the opinion expressed there by De Vis seems not to be accepted nowadays. (Or was De Vis wrong that Macleay's name had only been published in the Sydney Morning Herald"?)What the Code says is this:8.1. Criteria to be met. A work must satisfy the following criteria:---8.1.1. it must be issued for the purpose of providing a public and permanent scientific record,---8.1.2. it must be obtainable, when first issued, free of charge or by purchase, and---8.1.3. it must have been produced in an edition containing simultaneously obtainable copies by a method that assures------8.1.3.1. numerous identical and durable copies (see Article 8.4), or------8.1.3.2. widely accessible electronic copies with fixed content and layout....The critical article being 8.1.1: one might certainly interpret a newspaper as being issued only for a short-term purpose of recent news dissemination, hence not "for the purpose of providing a public and permanent scientific record". Or not...? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>