OK, but I think this poses a big problem for biodiversity informatics, that is,
if they want to provide something that is actually useful to general users
(including governments concerned with biosecurity and/or conservation issues,
which require data of a certain kind)   yes, a biodiversity database could index species under their original
combinations, e.g., Diarthrocera formicaephila Broun, 1893, and then simply list
alternative names in chronological order, which, in the present case would end
with: Diarthrocera formicaephila Broun, 1893 according to Maddison in
Macfarlane et al. (2010)   but who is going to be able to make any practical use out of such information???   Stephen

________________________________ From: Richard Pyle <deep...@bishopmuseum.org> To: TAXA...@MAILMAN.NHM.KU.EDU Sent: Saturday, 18 February 2012 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [Taxacom] validation of taxon names

Thanks, Stephen - I largely agree.

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As I said (or, at least implied) in my previous post:  there is no such thing as "currently valid", without a context of "currently", and an "according to whom".

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