Great idea! Let's just let use dictate, then we are
free of the ICZN. We don't need rules! We can just get all
our friends to do it our way. Later on, we can all get together
again and change it to whatever is popular then. In a few years, it
won't make any difference what it was since no one will have any idea of
what it means.
The dinosaur community, in spite of some dinosaurologists, does not
operate in its own little world. Their names impact all of zoology
in that they are no longer available. I hope the dinosaurologists
check the rest of the zoological literature as well, just to make sure
that some renegade bunch of snail people don't get together and all use
some dino-name. I can just see Tyrannosaurus rex, king of the
slugs, rising in the mollusk world by popular usage.
At 12:30 PM 7/26/02 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/25/02 9:36:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
forams@flash.net
>writes:
>
><< In other words, the original name Richardoestesia has to
stand, and any
>proposed
> change to it (i.e., Ricardoestesia) by a First Reviewer simply
becomes a
>junior
> synonym. I'm afraid you're stuck with Richardoestesia.
> >>
>
>The name appears spelled both ways in the original article, therefore
there
>is indeed evidence of a typographical error within the paper and not
from any
>external source. The problem is which is the error and which is the
correct
>spelling. As first revisor I chose the predominant spelling
Richardoestesia,
>but I was later informed that the intended spelling was
Ricardoestesia (see
>Dinosaur Genera List corrections #187). The only way to change the
spelling
>to the authors' intended spelling is to inform the dinosaur community
of the
>intended spelling and request that the intended spelling be used from
now on,
>regardless of the action of the first revisor. The intended spelling
is in
>the literature in several publications, so it already carries some
weight.
>The object is to continue using the intended spelling until it
predominates
>in the literature and thereby becomes the accepted spelling.
>