You can find all you need and buy a copy at:
http://www.iczn.org/
Regards
Enzo
At 04.14 25/11/2003, you wrote:
>Dear Wes;-
>   Again! Where does one find a copy of the ICZN rules? Is it in book
> form? Are there addendas that come out? Is Tom Rice hiding the whole
> thing from us? And then---ICZN is a non-thinking thing. Who (like real
> people) are those who decide these rules? Is there something like a board
> of directors? Do they run for office? How many are there?
>    Does anyone know?
>     The Q-Man---Art
> >
> > From: "Wesley M. Thorsson" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: 2003/11/24 Mon PM 04:30:30 EST
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Correct? Valid?
> >
> > It would seem to me that ICZN lays out the rules on new names, and
> occasionally declares a species name to be invalid.
> >
> > This leaves the name that a person uses for a species up to the person
> to decide on which valid name (proposed in accord with ICZN rules) to
> decide which he prefers, based on their own opinion.  Publishing a list
> of synonyms for a species establishes which name the author thinks is
> correct.  Different authors differ in this decision.
> >
> > Probably the correct way to state the "correct" name is to use "the
> name most knowledgeable persons now accept is" ------.  And the phrase
> "at this time" is probably also desirable.  Where "correct name" is use,
> substitute the above phase at least mentally.
> >
> > Aloha,   Wesley Thorsson
> >
>
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