The Orthoptera Species File contains many examples of one specimen as type for multiple names. One example: Burmeister, 1838 designated a specimen a syntype of Xiphidium glaberrimum. Vickery & Johnstone, 1974 designated the same specimen as lectotype of Xiphidum glaberrimum and as neotype of Orchelimum cuticulare Serville 1838. This was done to settle any ambiguity about the synonymy.
David Eades
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Markus Döring Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 10:09 AM To: Richard Pyle Cc: TDWG Content Mailing List Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] New Term Request - typifiedName
Rich, do you have examples of a specimen being the (current) type of multiple names? I was looking for these but could not find any. As the GBIF data coming in is flat we obviously only see simple cases and I'd be interested to study the more complex ones.
Markus
On 04 Dec 2013, at 11:51, Richard Pyle deepreef@bishopmuseum.org wrote:
Hmmm.....
This is the reason that typeStatus was included in the Identification class -- so that it always is associated with both a specimen (manifest as an occurrence), and to a taxon (name) -- to which the specimen is Identified. This is in keeping with what the concept of a "type specimen" really is -- that is, a specimen is not a type inherently, but rather a specimen is *designated* as a type by someone at some time, via an Identification instance.
Of course, because DwC classes are not really intended to be used in an ontological sense, and because most Museums put their "typeStatus" field in their specimen table (rather than in an Identification table), I can certainly understand the need for this proposed new term.
I guess my main concern/question is: how to deal with specimens that represent types of more than one name? (not common, but not necessarily an Edge-case either)
Aloha, Rich
-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-content- bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of John Wieczorek Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 4:13 AM To: TDWG Content Mailing List Subject: [tdwg-content] New Term Request - typifiedName
Dear all,
This message is to open public commentary on a request for a new term, typifiedName, submitted by Markus Döring to the Darwin Core issue tracker at https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=197. The justification given for inclusion of the term is:
"Clear separation of the type status and the typified scientific name that
is
typified by a type specimen, the subject. Looking at how dwc:typeStatus
has
been used in all of GBIFs specimen data one can see there is the need to express this, but it should better be handled with a term on its own and leave typeStatus for the status of the type only. The term name itself is
also
used by ABCD: http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/ABCD/AbcdConcept0603."
The proposal is as follows:
Definition: The scientific name that is based on the type specimen.
Comment: It is recommended to also indicate the typeStatus of the specimen.
Refines:
Has Domain:
Has Range:
Replaces:
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