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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 1692180" data-attributes="member: 24811">A nomen nudum is basically something that "is out there", but has failed (up to now) to gain any nomenclatural standing. Nomina nuda do not interfere at all with nomenclature.To have "Oceanodroma granti", as currently used informally, interfering with actual nomenclature, you'd need it to be made available (in the nomenclatural sense) by accident. Technically not impossible, but really not that easy these days. (This used to be much easier in the early days of nomenclature.)E.g., to have an "Oceanodroma granti Evans, 2009":- the Uk400 list should have ended up published in the sense of the Code (i.e., certainly not on a website),with, among other things:- a description in words of the characters purported to differentiate Grant's S-p,- an explicit "new species"-type statement next to the name,- an explicit designation of one or more type-specimens and,- if these specimens are extant, an explicit statement of the repository where they have been or are going to be deposited.</blockquote>