BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nutcracker" data-source="post: 3141173" data-attributes="member: 18214">The genus Troglodytes is named after the species Motacilla troglodytes; the ICZN has a provision (typification by tautonymy) that where a new genus is named after an included species, that species is automatically the type species of the new genus. Sensible, as it is obviously the intention of the describer of a new genus that it is exemplified by the species after which the new genus is named.<a href="http://www.zoonomen.net/avtax/anse.html" target="_blank">Zoonomen</a> indicates (species name in bold) that Cygnus cygnus is the type of Cygnus. What's odd is that it <a href="http://www.zoonomen.net/avtax/pa46.html" target="_blank">doesn't also do so</a> for Troglodytes.</blockquote>