Scientific names

Excellent points but I reckon I’ve got you guys covered on a technicality Firstly Dave (warning – amateur Latin ahead!) I *think* basalis is an ablative plural (ie. ‘with [bronze] bases’), which will be OK for any gender of genus (someone may correct me here?). So hopefully I was right to say the species name basalis won’t change. But your general point was of course correct and my overgeneralisation wrong. Secondly Nicholas I think I already had you covered when I said it won’t change “for the type population”. Because wouldn’t the type also be the nominate and would keep the name by rule of priority? (though perhaps there are exceptions to this???) Anyway glad we’re nitpicking about Latin rules not the old IOC vs BirdLife war, I clearly settled that one already Martin _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org