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TaxonWorks (https://taxonworks.org) documentation.
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Describe preferred mechanism for handling aberations. #9

Open mjy opened 4 years ago

mjy commented 4 years ago

@proceps can you please answer Donald's question in the "Nomenclature basics" manual in this repo?

Donald Hobern writes:

For context, I have one that needs to be included, because it has become part of a messed-up synonymy based on a misreading of the original French text: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55313167/f220.image. Here is what I now have in TaxonWorks: https://sfg.taxonworks.org/tasks/nomenclature/browse/28598. Jourheuille named Alucita huebneri ab. cartereaui, which Gielis and others have misread as an aberration of A. hexadactyla and which now appears in Fauna Europaea and elsewhere as a (never used in this form) heterotypic synonym Alucita cartereaui. I've done what I can to clean up the mess (although I haven't done anything about Jourheuille's assertion that Hübner misapplied the name Alucita hexadactyla).

I've ended up entering Alucita huebneri ab. cartereaui as Alucita huebneri f. cartereaui, which incorrectly raises it to a formal infrasubspecific rank, but I could see no structured way to present an aberration name. Does TaxonWorks give me a way to do this?