Hey all,

We just had an article published on Nothonotus relationships based on previously published morphological data with the addition of our mitochondrial and nuclear dna sequence data. It's interesting which parts of the dataset provide support and which don't, especially the morphology compared to the sequence data.

 Keck_Near2008.pdf   226KB   90 downloads

Ben,

Did I miss something (the answer is certainly yes) to cause all the "ums" to change to "us" e.g, maculatum is now maculatus. Really looking forward to reading this in great detail.

Hi Matt,

That should have been done in the first paper, but I dropped the ball and probably should have been chastized more than I was for it. I'm sure you have access to a copy of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, but for those that don't I'll give a quick explanation of what The Code lays out for gender of the species name when the combination changes, at least how it applies to Nothonotus.

The species epithet should agree in gender with the genus and Nothonotus is masculine so most of the names change. Species named after people are usually in the genitive case and do not change gender with the genus, e.g., N. juliae. Place names do not change spelling either. Names like N. wapiti (from Cherokee) are not latin or greek do not change in their spelling. Then there are special cases such as N. acuticeps were Bailey noted in the etymology section of the description that the name is a substantive, so the name does not change.

Ben