Talk:Principle of priority

This page and the other 5 pages can be deleted, their content has been copied to the ICZN Code page and improved. The content shown here is outdated and partly incorrect or misleading. -- FranciscoWelterSchultes (talk) 00:21, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

I removed several examples. Generally it leads to misunderstandings to use the term "to move to a new genus", because this creates the impression as if this was something like an official act, which it is not. We are only dealing with proposals to classifiy a species in a different genus than it had been classified before.


 * The Common Chimpanzee was named Simia troglodytes by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; when Lorenz Oken moved it to the new genus Pan in 1816, the specific name or "epithet" troglodytes had priority over any newly to be coined specific name, so the valid name is now Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775).


 * This example has nothing to do with the Principle of Priority.


 * Two species of Madagascar snake were initially given the names Pelophilus madagascariensis Duméril & Bibron, 1844 and Xiphosoma madagascariensis Duméril & Bibron, 1844. The former was moved to the genus Boa in 1893 by George Albert Boulenger, resulting in the name Boa madagascariensis (Duméril & Bibron, 1844). This meant that when in 1991 Arnold G. Kluge of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan moved Xiphosoma madagascariensis to the genus Boa as well, it could not have the name Boa madagascariensis. So Kluge gave the species the name Boa manditra.


 * This did not concern the Principle of Priority, but the Principle of Homonymy. -- FranciscoWelterSchultes (talk) 16:17, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move; additionally, if the existence of the page itself is in question then a deletion discussion is that way. fish &amp;karate 13:23, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Principle of Priority → Principle of priority –

Per WP:CAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. As here and here, for example. Although published sources vary on this, there is no reason to create an inconsistency within the WP site in this respect. Tony  (talk)  10:05, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Principle of Priority is a standard term defined by the ICZN Code and is always capitalised. This page contains mistakes, as said above, and can be entirely removed for the above mentioned reasons. -- FranciscoWelterSchultes (talk) 18:59, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

RM (Cash)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Principle of Coordination which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 00:35, 5 November 2021 (UTC)