Emendation

In zoological nomenclature, emendations are alterations made to the spelling of taxon names. In bacteriological nomenclature, emendations are made to the circumscription of a taxon.[1]

In zoology

The change must be consciously made along with justification for altering the spelling originally used by the taxon author while describing the species. Any other spelling changes are considered to be unjustified. Valid emendations include changes made to correct:[2][3]

  • typographical errors in the original work describing the species
  • errors in transliteration from non-Latin languages
  • names that included diacritics, hyphens
  • endings of species to match the gender of the generic name, particularly when the combination has been changed

The binomial authority remains unchanged.

gollark: What is "ceramic wobble"?
gollark: The coffee maker is the means of production.
gollark: Yes.
gollark: It has a cool hinge mechanism which lets the display rotate 180 degrees, but you can't actually see anything on the screen if you rotate it much.
gollark: My laptop has a 1366x768 TN panel, which is kind of bad.

References
  1. Lapage, S.; Sneath, P.; Lessel, E.; Skerman, V.; Seeliger, H.; Clark, W., eds. (1992), International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria: Bacteriological Code (1990 revision ed.), Washington, DC: ASM Press, Rule 35
  2. Follett, W.I (1952). "Emendation of Zoological Names". Systematic Biology. 1 (4): 178–181. doi:10.1093/sysbio/1.4.178.
  3. "Article 32 of the ICZN". ICZN.


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