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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3451073" data-attributes="member: 24811">You mean under <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/index.jsp?article=32&nfv=#5" target="_blank">32.5. Spellings that must be corrected (incorrect original spellings)</a>?In my opinion, definitely not; but in the last H&M a bunch of similar cases were emended (e.g., boissonneautii changed to 'boissonneauii'), which suggests not everybody would agree.The Code allows only inadvertent errors to be corrected -- cases where you can be reasonably sure that the author did not intend to have the name printed with the spelling that was used in the work. Here (as also in the case of boissonneautii), I interpret the name as clearly, deliberately latinized, with a connecting consonant added for reasons of euphony. "Incorrect transliteration or latinization, or use of an inappropriate connecting vowel, are not to be considered inadvertent errors" (ICZN 32.5.1). I see no good reason to treat the 'inappropriate' use of a connecting consonant differently to that of an 'inappropriate' connecting vowel: I think this cannot be corrected. I would add that, in my opinion, it is wiser not to attempt to 'correct' latinizations, because the latinization process often includes a part of subjectivity, hence you often won't have a single, objectively determined spelling to 'correct' a latinized name to.(If we are to latinize Castelnau, the fully correct way to do it would arguably produce 'castellinovi', because Castelnau in Latin is <a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellum_Novum_(Girundia)" target="_blank">Castellum Novum</a>. But I might well be the only person on Earth to suggest this correction... Hence I will refrain to do this. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

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