-----Original Message----- From: taxa...@mailman.nhm.ku.edu
[mailto:taxa...@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Kenneth Kinman Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 10:28 PM To: taxa...@mailman.nhm.ku.edu Subject: Re: [Taxacom] validation of taxon names

Hi Stephen,       And your efforts are appreciated.  If you have the means to do so,

it would be nice to correct the Wikipedia which still shows Xanthocyparis as a
synonym of Callitropsis, and thus using the incorrect

name combination Callitropsis vietnamensis.  This seems particularly important
because it is an endangered species.

      I would also hope that databases such as IPNI would stop using the

name combination Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, which is very unlikely to be
correct.  A case can be made for including it in Xanthocyparis, Callitropsis (if
it doesn't clade with vietnamensis), or even a broad Cupressus.  However, I can
find nothing in the recent literature which supports placing it in
Chamaecyparis.       -----------Ken                           

------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Thorpe wrote: I am working constantly to improve the data structure on Wikispecies, so

as to allow the user to see where the data is coming from and how it links
together (and how it links with other databases), and where the problems are ...  

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