Thanks a lot Rawat sir, Dinesh sir, Mahadeshwara sir, Ritesh, Ninad and Nudrat for liking the story!! Regards Pankaj
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: > Very informative and important information, even for qualified > taxonomists. > > On Jan 17, 4:03 am, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hope you will like reading this!! >> >> All taxonomists and botanists must have heard of the term TYPE and >> TYPIFICATION. >> >> When you describe a plant or animal for the first time, you have to >> refer to a specimen, which according to ICBN [Vienna Code (Article >> 37.4)] for plants, should be a specimen in any form preserved at any >> herbaria in the world. And you have to mention this information along >> with the name of the herbaria and the voucher number in the manuscript >> you have published using the word "type" or "holotype" or "holo" etc. >> >> But during early times, there was no such provision and people used to >> describe new species without citing any specimens. Hence in ICBN there >> is an option of LECTOTYPIFICATION. In this you designate a type or >> nomenclatural type for the particular taxa. This procedure is called >> Lectotypification and the specimen is called Lectotype and then there >> are rules for designating the lectotype. >> >> From 1735 onwards, Carl von Linné, Latinized as Carolus Linnæus, >> published his famous work, Systema Naturae in many editions. For those >> who are unaware, this book contains classification of animals too. By >> 10th edition in 1758 he had divided Animal Kingdom into 6 groups and >> he has described human beings in binomials as Homo sapiens but as for >> most of his plants, he never designated a type for Homo sapiens. >> >> So a lecotype for Homo sapiens was designated 300 years later in 1959. >> >> Big question is, what was the lectotype for Homo sapiens L.?? >> >> Answers is "Carl von Linné" >> >> Regards >> Pankaj >> >> -- >> *********************************************** >> "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" >> >> Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) >> Research Associate >> Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project >> Department of Habitat Ecology >> Wildlife Institute of India >> Post Box # 18 >> Dehradun - 248001, India -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
