Re: Law[-]Abiding New Papers

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>:


> No, that would be downright ridiculous. *Turdus merula* is the  
> "thrush" (turdus) that is the "blackbird" (merula), but  
> *Stormbergia* is not Dangershoek.
>
> (...Even though the shark *Galeocerdo* is Cuvier, and the salamander  
> *Pleurodeles* is Waltl -- these are established embarrassing lapsi  
> calami [or perhaps deliberate insults, who knows!] that cannot be  
> emended.)

And then there's *Alioramus altai*.  I've been wondering why Brusatte  
et al. chose that, rather than *altaiensis* or *altaicus*.

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Nicholas J. Pharris