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Eriocnemis aline vs. Eriocnemis alinae
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<blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 2385963" data-attributes="member: 24811"><p>This remains an odd case, I think, but for another reason...</p><p>- "Aline", "Julie" and "Mulsant" are clearly all unmodified French surnames. Although probably not 'incorrect' in the strict sense of the term, using an unmodified surname in apposition in a scientific species name is unusual. (And confusing--the current Code explicitly recommends to avoid this.)</p><p>- "(L')Aline", "(Le) Julie" and "(Le) Mulsant" were the vernacular names that Bourcier used for these three species.</p><p>When he presented his work at Lyon in July 1842: <a href="http://books.google.be/books?id=7TQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR55" target="_blank">http://books.google.be/books?id=7TQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR55</a></p><p>In the publication that followed in the <em>Annales...Lyon</em>, in early 1843, where he also introduced <em>alinae</em>, <em>juliae</em> and <em>mulsanti</em>: <a href="http://books.google.be/books?id=6VlFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA344" target="_blank">http://books.google.be/books?id=6VlFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA344</a></p><p>- The typeface used for the names in the <em>Revue Zoologique</em> is non-italicized small capitals: <a href="http://books.google.be/books?id=zLVyfNUNhlUC&pg=PA373" target="_blank">http://books.google.be/books?id=zLVyfNUNhlUC&pg=PA373</a></p><p>I can't find a single other place in this volume of the journal where this typeface would have been used for a scientific species name. Scientific species names are consistently italicized and lower-case. (Small caps are used for regular French text in headers, including vernacular names in some case: <a href="http://books.google.be/books?id=zLVyfNUNhlUC&pg=PA333" target="_blank">http://books.google.be/books?id=zLVyfNUNhlUC&pg=PA333</a>.)</p><p>Thus it could probably be argued that the names as they appear in Revue Zoologique were never intended to be scientific species names; that they are just this: "oddly used" vernaculars. And therefore unavailable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="l_raty, post: 2385963, member: 24811"] This remains an odd case, I think, but for another reason... - "Aline", "Julie" and "Mulsant" are clearly all unmodified French surnames. Although probably not 'incorrect' in the strict sense of the term, using an unmodified surname in apposition in a scientific species name is unusual. (And confusing--the current Code explicitly recommends to avoid this.) - "(L')Aline", "(Le) Julie" and "(Le) Mulsant" were the vernacular names that Bourcier used for these three species. When he presented his work at Lyon in July 1842: [url]http://books.google.be/books?id=7TQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR55[/url] In the publication that followed in the [I]Annales...Lyon[/I], in early 1843, where he also introduced [I]alinae[/I], [I]juliae[/I] and [I]mulsanti[/I]: [url]http://books.google.be/books?id=6VlFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA344[/url] - The typeface used for the names in the [I]Revue Zoologique[/I] is non-italicized small capitals: [url]http://books.google.be/books?id=zLVyfNUNhlUC&pg=PA373[/url] I can't find a single other place in this volume of the journal where this typeface would have been used for a scientific species name. Scientific species names are consistently italicized and lower-case. (Small caps are used for regular French text in headers, including vernacular names in some case: [url]http://books.google.be/books?id=zLVyfNUNhlUC&pg=PA333[/url].) Thus it could probably be argued that the names as they appear in Revue Zoologique were never intended to be scientific species names; that they are just this: "oddly used" vernaculars. And therefore unavailable. [/QUOTE]
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