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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thomasdonegan" data-source="post: 3083343" data-attributes="member: 5190">There are clearly two possible interpretations of Pallas' text.What is perhaps more astonishing is that in taxonomic science and nomenclature, authors tend to search for a single truth and state that this is the only truth, rather than acknowledging and discussing the possibility of more than one interpretation existing.  We also see this all the time in discussions of species limits for sister allopatric taxa and the recent Brazilian tapaculo nonsense is another expression of this. Part of the fault on this lies with journals and scientists from other disciplines who "turn their hand" to taxonomy and nomenclature, who regard more discursive papers as being unpublishable, leaving too many questions open or lacking clarity.I'd like to see more papers putting their hand up and saying "there are two possible interpretations here, but X is preferred to Y for the following reasons".</blockquote>