[CPN] Fwd: Proposed revisions of Article 11--CALL FOR A VOTE

[Cantino, Philip]

In the absence of a reply from David or comments from anyone else, I think it is time to vote on this.

Unless someone objects by tomorrow and asks for more discussion, please start voting tomorrow on the proposed revisions of Article 11 that I sent to the CPN on January 2.

Phil



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From: "Cantino, Philip" <cantino at ohio.edu<mailto:cantino at ohio.edu>>
Date: January 7, 2013 9:29:56 AM EST
To: Committee on Phylogenetic Nomenclature <cpn at listserv.ohio.edu<mailto:cpn at listserv.ohio.edu>>
Subject: Re: [CPN] Proposed revisions of Article 11

David,

Can you elaborate, perhaps with an example, how the use of different species criteria by different biologists would cause problems in the context of this rule?  The objective of the rule is to prohibit the use of non-type specimens as specifiers when a type could be used instead.  Differences in species criteria may certainly result in a particular specimen being referred to different species by different people, but can it result in a biologist concluding that the specimen can't be assigned to any named species?  Note that the wording does not require that the biologist who is using the specimen as a specifier be the person who named the species or even that he/she accept the premise that species exist.

I said I would initiate the vote today if no one objected to the timeline, but I'll hold off doing so until we finish discussing the issue David has raised.

Did no one else have any comments on the proposed revisions that I sent on January 2?

Phil


On Jan 6, 2013, at 7:55 AM, David Marjanovic wrote:

These proposals are probably good enough in practice. The only possible
exception is in the proposed Art. 11.7: whether a specimen "cannot be
referred to a named species" will sometimes, perhaps often, depend on
the species criteria. What do you all think?
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