RE: Classification (was Panduro)

["Griffiths, Richard" <rgriffit@visa.com>]

And Axlerod has published in TFH creating species that are 'legit'. The
one thing about the old stuffy ichthyological journals was  that they
were SLOW in getting things through to publication--peer review,
editor's work, technical editing, and the publishing process
itself--thus causing two-three YEAR delay in describing a fish. Monthly
magazines provide quicker (and in Axlerod's case) easier means to get
another species named after him (yeah, I know, I'm critical).

IEF is an excellent journal that many newly described species are being
described; but again it is a 'quarterly' journal, and published late.

Buntbarsche Bulletin has a legit description or two as I recall. 

As long as the description is rigorous and meets the requirements of the
naming conventions, etc., it can be described...it may change when
someone else does the work later if the work-up was not good enough, but
that's another story.

> ----------
> From: 	William Vannerson[SMTP:William_Vannerson@ama-assn.org]
> Sent: 	Thursday, August 27, 1998 10:48 AM
> To: 	apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
> Subject: 	Re: Panduro -Reply
> 
> >>He ticked the classification experts off because JACA is a "hobby"
> journal.  Kullander himself later "re-did" the description and had it
> "properly" published. <<
> 
> Actually, the governing body that "officiates" the naming (I can't
> recall its
> name right now, IZA?) is not too rigid on acceptable publications.  I
> just
> ran into a case where a killifish, Cynolebias antenori, was
> insufficiently
> described in a publication to meet there requirements of a valid
> description.  A few years late, a Chicago killie keeper wrote a two
> page
> article for Killie Notes, the precursor to JAKA, that did meet the
> requirements.
> 
> Consequently, he's attributed as the describer while the original
> describer, with the same species name, is attributed as a synonym.
> 
> Also, I've seen entries in AquaLog, which is basically a picture book,
> qualify for valid naming.  Go figure.
> 
> Bill Vannerson
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/william_vannerson
> 
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