FEATURE: Setting and displaying the current valid taxon

[Mark Wilden]

You can specify the current valid taxon for a taxon. This is used for junior synonyms and original combinations.

The top of the catalog page for a junior synonym now reads "junior synonym of current valid taxon Bos" if the senior synonym is known. For the other 44, it just reads "junior synonym".

[Donat Agosti]

Hi Mark

 

This function (of listing synonyms and linking names)  has been installed in Hymenoptera Server since 2000 the latest, and some of the very early pages are still here http://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.name_entry?text_entry=Formica+rufa&Submit=Submit+Query

Or in a more sophisticated way here

http://hol.osu.edu/?id=244081

 

Donat

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[Mark Wilden]

What's different in AntCat, of course, is that any properly-qualified person can go in and edit those relationships.

[Donat Agosti]

That was always the case in hns. You just need to get a pwd, and that you get if you are properly qualified. Somebody has to make a decision, and establish this relationship, in antcat and hns.

[Mark Wilden]

Not having one of those passwords myself, I can't say for sure, but I thought one big difference between HNS and AntCat is that AntCat was designed from the ground up to be community-editable. In AntCat, practically anyone can make changes, but those changes enter an editorial queue, where they are approved by another editor.

I really hate comparisons to HNS because I think it's so good. Nevertheless, I think HNS and AntCat are different enough that each has its place.

[Mark Wilden]

I was looking at the first page for Formica rufa. HNS has way, way more synonyms than AntCat, that's for sure!

However, I don't know why the status of the name is "Invalid. Subsequent name/combination". If my reading of Bolton is correct, then the name is valid (as it is in AntCat).

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Donat Agosti <ago...@amnh.org> wrote:

[Norman F. Johnson]

Formica rufa was a mess: Apparently the Formica rufa described by Linnaeus in 1758 could not have been what myrmecologists came to believe. That, rather was Formica rufa Linnaeus, 1761. The name rufa L., 1758 was recognized to refer to the the same species as Camponotus herculeanus (Linnaeus, 1758). So that rufa was suppressed by the ICZN. Hence there is a F. rufa Linnaeus that is a synonym of C. herculeanus, and another F. rufa Linnaeus that is a valid species. Did I get that straight?

Norm

On 12/9/2013 5:24 PM, Mark Wilden wrote:

I was looking at the first page for Formica rufa. HNS has way, way more synonyms than AntCat, that's for sure!

However, I don't know why the status of the name is "Invalid. Subsequent name/combination". If my reading of Bolton is correct, then the name is valid (as it is in AntCat).

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