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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3337298" data-attributes="member: 24811">AP Peterson used haermsi on Zoonomen from late 2003 to early 2008, before he switched to harmsi (without any comment). But Zoonomen (in its 2005 state) had been used extensively as a nomenclatural authority by ITIS, and the change did not reach them. As a consequence, haermsi is currently the accepted spelling, not only on <a href="http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=686961" target="_blank">ITIS</a> itself, but also on all the large taxonomic/biological Internet databases in its sphere of influence: <a href="http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/details/species/id/7000997" target="_blank">CoL</a>, <a href="http://www.gbif-uat.org/species/110920351" target="_blank">GBIF</a>, <a href="http://eol.org/pages/1268298/overview" target="_blank">EoL</a>...So it's not really like this spelling is completely out of use, I think...Interestingly, Härmst's given name, "Michael", which is the usual form of this name in German, doesn't seem typically Estonian at all. The normal Estonian forms I see mentioned on various websites are "Mihkel", "Mikk" and "Miikael". According to the table in [<a href="http://maaleht.delfi.ee/news/maaleht/uudised/mihklid-on-tegude-peale-mihklid?id=33442251" target="_blank">this paper</a>], there were also a great many "Mihhail", "Mikhail" and "Mihail" (presumably all transliterations of Russian "Михаил") living in Estonia in 2010; the "Michael's" made up barely more than 1% of the persons bearing a name of this group (103 out of a total of 9916).</blockquote>

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