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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3237908" data-attributes="member: 24811">[<a href="http://www.researchgate.net/publication/277312866" target="_blank">pdf</a>]The name, as published here, is unquestionably a nomen nudum due to a total absence of explicit type fixation.(Not to mention that "johnsoni in honor of two long-term students of the species" is in breach of Art. 31.1 [the genitive should have been plural, eg. johnsonorum], which would probably once more elicit infinite disputes about the "correct" OS.)Additionally, there is a fair number of later names that apply to this species and have type localities that are not in the Pacific Islands (see for example <a href="http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14032102" target="_blank">Hartert 1920</a>), and it seems also somewhat surprising that there was no attempt to check whether one of these might apply.</blockquote>