On 25-Aug-00, Henk and Zvia Mienis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
There are several possibilities:
Deshayes described some new species of Red Sea shells in a general book
dealing with a journey in that area of which Laborde was the author,
therefore all the mollusc taxa are quoted like the following example:
Cardites rufa (Deshayes in Laborde, 1834).
Sometimes an article is co-authored by two or more authors, but some of the
new names are "claimed" by one of the authors only for example: Arca
(Scapharca) birleyana Melvill in Melvill and Standen, 1906, while several
pages further Pectunculus (now Glycymeris) heroicus Mellvil & Standen, 1906
is described.
However, it becomes rather complicated when you have to quote: Siliquaria
armata Kuroda, Habe & Kosuge in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 or Nodiscala
gracilis Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971.
Yes, there are also general travel accounts in which not only molluscs but
also other animals and plants are described, often by different authors. An
example forms the description of Cerithium levantinum by E.A. Smith in Hart,
1891.
Live is not always easy.
Best regards,
Henk K. Mienis
Curator National Mollusc Collection
Dept. Evolution, Systematics & Ecology
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Il-91904 Jerusalem, Israel
----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Bush <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 4:56 AM
Subject: A questionabout authors


> Hi, Conch-Lers!
>      I have a question.  Sometimes the author of a shell name is given as
(Name in Another Name, Date).   Do most of these indicate the description of
a shell in a book of shell descriptions by another auther(s)?  Or, do some
of these come from publications that may iinclude phyla other than Mollusca
as well?  (Some of these are obviously limited to Mollusca, as both names
are familiar to us as shell authors.)   I"m just wondering if there are some
cases in which the work deals with other animals as well as molluscs.
>
> Greetings from stormy St. Louis,
> Linda
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Thank you so much for youyr interesting reply.   It should be informative for everyone on the list.  The situation can be more complicated than I imagined.

Linda Bush