Title: Re: paleonet meaning of
"partim"
Can anyone tell me what the term
"partim" refers to? For instance, in _The
Dinosauria_ by Weishampel, Dodson, and Osmolska (2ed), the entry
for
Conchoraptor gracilis reads
_Conchoraptor gracilis_ Barsbold, 1986 (including _Ingenia
yanshini_
Barsbold, 1981 _partim_)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Latin
Above is an online Latin-English dictionary. It's hyper
complete and assumes some knowledge of grammar (in this case it helps
to know that 'partim' is an adverb derived from 'pars'), so you can
get literal translations of the words. For the colloquial
meanings in the context of binomial nomenclature William Stearn's
Botanical Latin is helpful.
At the risk of being redundant I will chime in with my
understanding of 'partim' is that Conchoraptor gracilis is a
renamed subset of (partim means 'partly, in part, a part, some
of, some') a broader species definition called
Ingenia yanshini.
Bill
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William P. Chaisson
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University of Rochester
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