Very informative and important information, even for qualified taxonomists.
On Jan 17, 4:03 am, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hope you will like reading this!! > > All taxonomists and botanists must have heard of the term TYPE and > TYPIFICATION. > > When you describe a plant or animal for the first time, you have to > refer to a specimen, which according to ICBN [Vienna Code (Article > 37.4)] for plants, should be a specimen in any form preserved at any > herbaria in the world. And you have to mention this information along > with the name of the herbaria and the voucher number in the manuscript > you have published using the word "type" or "holotype" or "holo" etc. > > But during early times, there was no such provision and people used to > describe new species without citing any specimens. Hence in ICBN there > is an option of LECTOTYPIFICATION. In this you designate a type or > nomenclatural type for the particular taxa. This procedure is called > Lectotypification and the specimen is called Lectotype and then there > are rules for designating the lectotype. > > From 1735 onwards, Carl von Linné, Latinized as Carolus Linnæus, > published his famous work, Systema Naturae in many editions. For those > who are unaware, this book contains classification of animals too. By > 10th edition in 1758 he had divided Animal Kingdom into 6 groups and > he has described human beings in binomials as Homo sapiens but as for > most of his plants, he never designated a type for Homo sapiens. > > So a lecotype for Homo sapiens was designated 300 years later in 1959. > > Big question is, what was the lectotype for Homo sapiens L.?? > > Answers is "Carl von Linné" > > Regards > Pankaj > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India
