Excellent points but I reckon I've got you guys covered on a technicality :)
Firstly Dave (warning - amateur Latin ahead!) I *think* basalis is an ablative
plural (ie. 'with [bronze] bases'), which will be OK for any gender of genus
(someone may correct me here?). So hopefully I was right to say the species
name basalis won't change. But your general point was of course correct and my
overgeneralisation wrong.
Secondly Nicholas I think I already had you covered when I said it won't change
"for the type population". Because wouldn’t the type also be the nominate and
would keep the name by rule of priority? (though perhaps there are exceptions
to this???)
Anyway glad we're nitpicking about Latin rules not the old IOC vs BirdLife war,
I clearly settled that one already :)
Martin
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