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Christidis & Boles Systematics 2008

To: "russ lamb" <>
Subject: Christidis & Boles Systematics 2008
From: "Tom Tarrant" <>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:11:35 +1000
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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