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,0 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.
,0 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.
,0 FranciscoWelterSchultes 2008-10-07 12:28:42 50.1 needs to be generally more explicite. To 50.1.1 should be added: "Citing the name of a different author behind a new name alone is not sufficient to provide evidence that the other person was fully or partly responsible for the name. This concerns also cases where it is clear from external evidence that the entire descriptive text was originally written by the other person, and literally cited from an unpublished manuscript." This concerns for example Reeve's names, who in his monograph Conchologica Iconica frequently mentioned names previously reported by other zoologists in meetings of the Zoological Society of London, which was a prerequisite for publication in the Society's journal. The journal issues often appeared shortly after Reeve had published the corresponding sections of his monograph. Author of those names is Reeve alone. To 50.1.3 should be added: "If only part of the description was cited (for example in quotation marks) from the manuscript of an explicitely mentioned different author, then authorship is by both co-authors. If not otherwise stated in the original publication, the first author of the name shall be the author of the work." Example: Clausilia cattaroensis was described in Rossmässler's work from 1835, who cited the species as ''Cl. cattaroensis'' Ziegler, gave a brief description and added a short passage by Ziegler which he cited in quotation marks. The name of the species must be ''Clausilia cattaroensis'' Rossmässler & Ziegler, 1835. (At present we have no idea how to proceed in such cases, especially the way of order of co-authors in such cases is totally unclear).
,0 FranciscoWelterSchultes 2009-01-22 07:09:58 50.1 should be modified. "The author of a name or nomenclatural act is the person who acts responsible for the textual content of its first publication [Arts. 8, 11] in a way that satisfies the criteria of availability [Arts. 10 to 20]..." The author of a name or nomenclatural act is clearly not the person who first publishes it (this is the publisher or the editor), but the person who actually wrote the text and submitted it for publication.