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FranciscoWelterSchultes
2008-10-07 11:31:27

A passage should be added:
"50.8. Spelling of authors' names. The spelling of the author is to be taken from the title page of the work in which the available name was established (modified to the nominatice case if originally given in the genitive case). Special characters must be conserved."
Examples: Linnæus, 1758; Linné, 1766. 
A ruling is needed because zoologists are undecided which names to use. In botany exist official lists of names of authors, and their official abbreviations. The situation in zoology is much more complex, many authors were spelled in different ways and bibliographers and scientists are undecided which ones should be regarded as more or less official. The international library catalogues' conventional name for the founder of zoological nomenlature is Linné, but zoologists tend to use Linnaeus. There is no other and easier solution than to use the name as printed on the title page of the corresponding work. This is also in the general spirit of the high importance of original spellings in zoological nomenclature.

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FranciscoWelterSchultes
2008-10-07 11:41:58

Another passage is needed:
"50.1.4. Authors of figures (engravers, photographers etc.) are regarded as artists and not as scientific authors or co-authors in the sense of this article."
In malacology we have some species established on the base of a name and a figure (without descriptive text), and where the figure was explicitely attributed to a different person. The authors of figures were traditionally not cited as co-authors of the corresponding new names.