The author goes in brackets: what counts is the generic position not the
subgeneric position.
Henk K. Mienis
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Subject: a question


> Dear All,
>
> the former wasn't really shell-related, so I now have a shell-related
> question for the taxo-nuts:
>
> The rule is that when a species is now placed under a different generic
> name from that under which it was originally described, the name of the
> author and year go in brackets. But what happens when the original genus
> was a Genus (Subgenus) and Subgenus has been elevated to generic level in
> recent times. Does the author and name go in brackets or do they not?
>
> Patty
>
>
> Dr. Patty Jansen
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