Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
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thomaseverest | Genus Vespericola |
Masculine or feminine? |
Jan. 21, 2021 23:51:28 +0000 | loarie |
see comments |
Here's the first link.
OK, FWIW we now have a taxon framework linked to MollucaBase for all of the phyla
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47115-Mollusca/taxonomy_details
But there's still 1818 relationship unknown taxa (that we should swap or make deviations for)
and 70 flags
According to the code this would indeed be feminine because Pilsbry treated it as feminine in his combinations. I'll do the swaps at some point. See discussion here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/86789471
Ah I actually emailed Barry Roth about this and haven't gotten around to implementing the change here. This is what he said:
Vespericola was validly proposed on an introductory page (XVII) of volume 1, part 1 of Pilsbry's Land Mollusca of North America (1939). There the new genus-name was not printed attached to any associated species-name. Thus its gender was unspecified. Per the Code, in such cases the gender is to be treated as masculine. The fact that Pilsbry treated it as feminine in his full (1940) writeup is irrelevant.
So these should have masculine endings where applicable, as is found in Roth & Sadeghian
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260106779_Checklist_of_the_Land_Snails_and_Slugs_of_California_Second_Edition
@loarie OK MB has updated the following:
V. armigera to V. armiger
V. colubmiana to V. columbianus
V. rhodophila to V. rhodophilus
V. oria may actually be correct if it's a noun. Would you like to update these "through the back end" or should I do some swaps?
the March monthly WoRMs archive is still consistent with whats on iNat https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/233542/taxonomy_details so my preference is to wait until April to change these to avoid confusing iNat when it references that archive
@loarie Is the archive updated now? (I'm happy to check things like this if you can link there.) I already swapped V. rhodophila, but V. armigera and V. columbiana still need to be changed. Let me know if I should just swap these too.
@loarie Great. So should I swap or do you have "back end" things to do instead?
sorry I thought there was more than one, changed
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1159142-Vespericola-armiger
Originally described as feminine (or at least treated that way with the species listed under it) but one later author seems to have decided/figured out it's actually masculine. Agricola, rupicola, etc. are all masculine so this should be too? MolluscaBase treats it as feminine.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land_Mollusca_of_North_America_(north_of_Mexico)Vol._I_Part_2(2nd_half).pdf
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42465744#page/150/mode/1up