Re: nomen rejectum

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 02:51 PM 9/25/99 -0400, T. Mike Keesey wrote:
>A little while ago I saw a post to this list (can't seem to find it now)
>with this term in it. I've never seen it before. Is it something like a
>nomen oblitum? Are nomina oblita "forgotten names" (unused for a long
>period of time while a junior synonym has been used, e.g. _Scrotum
>humanum_) and nomina rejecta "rejected names" (explicitly rejected by the
>ICZN, e.g. _Rioarribasaurus colberti_)? IOW, would the valid junior
>synonym of a nomen oblitum be a nomen validum, and the valid junior
>synonym of a nomen rejectum be a nomen conservandum? Or is the term "nomen
>rejectum" used at all?

If I remember correctly, under the rules in force until a few weeks ago
there is no distinction made.  It takes (?took) a ruling of the ICZN to
confirm rejection of an unused senior synonym.

[I have not had a chance to read the *new* rules yet, so I do not know what
they say].

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