Hi Russ,
I'm not sure that it will offer the explanation you require but if you visit
this resource (http://www.zoonomen.net/avtax/frame.html) there are some
"Explanatory Notes" in the bottom-left frame which might help (it is
certainly a very useful website)
Tom
There is
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:49 PM, russ lamb <>
wrote:
> Like many of you I have been perusing the Species lists section of this
> long-awaited tome.
> Not being literate in the conventions of scientific literature, and having
> failed to find any explanation in either the "Introduction"or "Species
> lists" section of the book, I am puzzled as to why the second column of the
> species lists(untitled, but ?obviously author and date of type specimen?)
> contains unbracketed and bracketed names and dates. For example on page 38
> one finds:
> Hirundo noexena Gould,1842 Welcome Swallow
> Petrochelidon ariel (Gould,1842) Fairy Martin
>
> There must be a reason for bracketing (which at a guess is the case in more
> than 60% of listed species) but I can't find,or even begin to comprehend,
> what that reason is.
>
> I await enlightenment.
>
> Russ Lamb,Maleny,SEQ
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