Changing Names

From: Jason Hernandez <jason.hernandez74 at yahoo.com> on 2016.11.09 at 14:55:53(23705) Yeah, well, here's my perspective: there is a reason these kinds of studies are called "revisions." If the taxonomist reviewed the genus and concluded that it was all correct just as it is, he would have nothing to publish, would he? So, go into it with the assumption that changes will have to be made, and called it a "revision." Jason Hernandez +More Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 09:51:25 -0500 From: "D. Christopher Rogers" Subject: Re: Changing Names To: Discussion of aroids Message-ID: Thank you, Albert! Well done. On 24 October 2016 at 11:04, Albert Huntington wrote: > Folks - > > I posted this on facebook last week, but I figure it may be of interest > to those on Aroid-L as well: > > In the wake of some recent discussion about the state of a few names - > Arum pictum vs Gymnomesium pictum and Xanthosoma/Caladium lindenii vs > Phyllotaenium lindenii, for instance, I've made a page which lays out the > current state of affairs regarding name changes of at least some of our > beloved plants and provides links to some papers. > > Please refer to http://www.aroid.org/genera/changes/ for all your naming > needs. You might never be actually *right*, but it will be more difficult > for people to prove you *wrong*. > > --Albert _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: Peter Boyce <phymatarum at gmail.com> on 2016.11.12 at 02:21:14(23706) Delicious circularity, Jason! Actually in botany quite a lot of what I slightly disdainfully term "passive" revisions appear in which nothing changes except for a few more dots on a map and a slightly expanded specimens cited list appended to minutely altered description. The advent of 'fast-track' publication has exacerbated the trend to knock-out a quick "review" to garner a few more citation points for your promotion breadbasket, bloating the literature for some families. On 9 November 2016 at 22:55, Jason Hernandez wrote: Yeah, well, here's my perspective: there is a reason these kinds of studies are called "revisions." If the taxonomist reviewed the genus and concluded that it was all correct just as it is, he would have nothing to publish, would he? So, go into it with the assumption that changes will have to be made, and called it a "revision." Jason Hernandez HTML +More Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 09:51:25 -0500 From: "D. Christopher Rogers" Subject: Re: Changing Names To: Discussion of aroids Message-ID:

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