Talk:Synodontis multipunctatus

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: page moved per request. GTBacchus(talk) 20:58, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Synodontis multipunctatus → — Procedural request. My opinion on the request is neutral. TFOWRpropaganda 11:19, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Support: The correct name is Synodontis multipunctata. It should be changed everywhere and the article should be moved. --Kyknos (talk) 13:39, 24 May 2010 (UTC) Comment refactored to here by me after adding  TFOWRpropaganda 11:27, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not know what we are discussing here. The correct scientific name is clearly Synodontis multipunctata. It cannot be changed here :) --Kyknos (talk) 11:41, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 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.

Species' name
Whatever the reasoning behind the above move request and subsequent move was (not outlined anywhere, but most probably Ferraris' 2007 Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types, valid at the time), it does not stand anymore. Catalog of Fishes, FishBase, ITIS, Catalogue of Life, Zoobank (ICZN) and IUCN all list this species as Synodontis multipunctatus. FishBase, referenced in all Synodontis sp. articles, lists S. multipunctata as a synonym and marks it as a "misspelling of the species' name that must not be used": Synonyms of Synodontis multipunctatus Boulenger, 1898

The genus name Synodontis is currently treated as masculinum and several sp. epithets have been changed accordingly. XenoVon (talk) 10:54, 9 June 2014 (UTC)