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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3688023" data-attributes="member: 24811">The type fixation mechanism keeps being problematic. The very first sentence of the paper reads:The type of a genus name must be an originally included nominal species denoted by an available name."Caracara" of Buffon is but a French vernacular (not an available name), and cannot be the type of any genus.If a genus was made available without any originally included nominal species (this is possible only for genera published before 1931; this is the case here), the originally included nominal species are deemed to be the nominal species cited by an available name in the first subsequent work where nominal species cited by an available name were included in the genus. The type species must be one of these. This type species does not need to be tied to the identity of any vernacular name cited in the OD.(As a rule, every time you see a claimed type fixation that looks likeType species: "whatever-which-is-not-an-available-species-group-name" = Aus bus Doe...you can be sure that this type fixation does not comply to the current Code.)</blockquote>