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Psalmocharia querulus #7

Closed klausriede closed 11 months ago

klausriede commented 1 year ago

https://hoppers.speciesfile.org/otus/8680/overview is querula throughout the literature....who corrected querulus?

proceps commented 11 months ago

'querulus' is Latin adjective https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/querulus Psalmocharias is a masculine genus name. TaxonWorks automatically match proper ending of the specific epithet with the gender of the genus. Originally the species was described in the genus 'Cicada', probably the current combination was never published.

klausriede commented 11 months ago

hmm - so we have a nomenclatural act by AI taxonworks? I wonder if this is valid. In any case it is confusing

proceps commented 11 months ago

New combinations, new synonymy, corrections of spellings are not nomenclatural acts in ICZN sense. Those do not require publication and could be implemented directly in the DB. For example, somebody publish a statement that a genus B is a synonym of the genus A, but no new explicit combinations mentioned in the paper, as a curator, I can still transfer all the species from one genus to another, although the combinations were never published. There is no much of AI behind, in all cases it is still a curatorial decision.

klausriede commented 11 months ago

agreed, except for the epithet. For sake of name stability the epithet should remain as it is , in this case widely in the literature see http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A82F87957F12FFE0FF3E5C69FA83F9D9

proceps commented 11 months ago

ICZN Art. 34.2. The ending of a Latin or latinized adjectival or participial species-group name must agree in gender with the generic name with which it is at any time combined; if the gender ending is incorrect it must be changed accordingly...

klausriede commented 11 months ago

agreed, but the name P querula is widely spread in the literature https://zenodo.org/records/5984881 so it should appear somewhere in the database

proceps commented 11 months ago

Please look at the Nomenclature section, all name usages are listed there. You can see also references in CoL (https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/4NB3L) and GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/species/8141211)