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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 1621810" data-attributes="member: 24811">Or should it rather be:"The family name "Struthideidae" is older by one year than the name "Corcoracidae", and thus should normally have priority, but in fact the family consisting of Corcorax and Struthidea alone has always been listed as "Corcoracidae", and this should therefore remain the valid name for the family thus constituted."...?[Note <a href="http://www.iczn.org/iczn/index.jsp?article=35&nfv=" target="_blank">Art. 35.5 of the ICZN</a>: "Precedence for names in use at higher rank. If after 1999 a name in use for a family-group taxon (e.g. for a subfamily) is found to be older than a name in prevailing usage for a taxon at higher rank in the same family-group taxon (e.g. for the family within which the older name is the name of a subfamily) the older name is not to displace the younger name."]</blockquote>