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
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> 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?
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> It would seem to me that ICZN lays out the rules on new names, and occasionally declares a species name to be invalid.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Aloha,   Wesley Thorsson
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