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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fred Ruhe" data-source="post: 3764644" data-attributes="member: 83329">This is the mail I send to Nikita Zelenkov:Dear Nikita,Recently I had a discussion with Laurent Raty on “Sushkinia” Tugarinov, 1935 (see birdforum: <a href="https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=311818" target="_blank">https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=311818</a>). He showed me a pdf in which the new name is Psushkinia Zelenkov, 2015, I showed him the pdf in which the new name is Petrosushkinia Zelenkov, 2015.My questions are of course, which name is correct and why are there two different versions of the book?All the best,Fred RuheToday I received his answer:Dear Fred,Thanks so much for your letter and concern.There is an explanation about this. The final printed and published book indeed gives Petrosushkinia, as you correctly note.But the probmel is, some half-year before publishing an early version of book was published online by the fund which gave money to publish it.We had to report to the foundation and thus provided them an early version of the book, but we did not know that they would post it online..There are indeed some differences between the final version and that early one. Unfortunately, some number of people downloaded that early version.I have now uploaded the final version on researchgate and provided a link to in on the list of my publications..Best wishes,NikitaFred Ruhe</blockquote>