Dear David et al.,
In literature there is also confusion about the termination "plica" or
"plicus". Linnaeus used Ostrea plica and others Pecten plicus or
Decatopecten plicus. I think this is incorrect and should be Decatopecten
plica or Decatopecten plictus.
All the best,
Henk
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> Datum: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:28:51 -0500
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> Onderwerp: Latin name exceptions
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> desma (ligament) is another Greek-derived neuter root ending in a. I think it
> is most commonly used in fossil bivalves among mollusks, but modern genera
> such as Entodesma also use it.
>
> Species names based on people's names are generally invariant, e.g. Turritella
> palmerae would still be palmerae if it were assigned to another genus.
> Occasionally there is a problem when the author apparently gave the wrong
> ending for the person(s) for whom it is named. A few examples can be found in
> the archives.
>
> Other valid changes in species name spelling include the elimination of
> diacritical marks, making the name lower case, or spelling out originally
> abbreviated forms (Ecphora quadricostata was first described as Fusus
> 4-costata).
>
> One commonly encountered illegal emendation of spelling, especially in older
> literature, is making the name internally more Latin. Some authors changed w
> to v, for example.
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