User talk:Malacologist2

Welcome to Wikipedia
JoJan (talk) 07:53, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Accepted as
Hello and welcome again. I just saw the changes you made to Melanochlamys, changing "synonym of" into "accepted as". Indeed, WoRMS uses these words. But we have chosen not to, because the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature recognizes the word "synonym" (each of two or more names of the same rank used to denote the same taxonomic taxon), while the words "accepted as" do not occur in the ICZN rules. On the other hand, we don't want to become too technical by using terms such as "objective synonym", "junior synonym", "subjective synonym", "younger synonym", (disused or unused) "senior synonym". I hope you can agree with this and I hope to see more contributions from you. If you like, you can become a member of WikiProject Gastropods, on which page you can find more explanations. JoJan (talk) 08:07, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Aporodoris
On 9 June 2012 you wrote a message on my talk page about problems in the taxonomy. I replied that this couldn't be handled by Wikipedia. Therefore I sent an email to Dr. Bouchet. I have now received a (belated) answer that you can read on my talk page. I hope this satisfies your query. JoJan (talk) 09:09, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

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