Thunberg vs. Becklin vs. Quensel

[Kondla, Norbert SRM:EX]

Specific to B;. frigga and freija; two people in the past year have kindly
pointed out that the waters are further muddied by Quensel 1791. If anyone
has researched that wrinkle please feel free to share your findings. For
those who wish to form their own view of who the author (per the Code) of
the names is; here is a citation for one paper on this topic:
Karsholt, O. and E.S. Nielsen. 1986. The Lepidoptera described by C.P.
Thunberg. Entomologica scandinavica 16:433-463.
As previously mentioned, these authors present some interesting information
but do not show how Thunberg as author is compliant with the pertinent Code
provisions. They also mention some other historical authors who chose the
Becklin authorship option. I will be happy to agree that Thunberg is the
sole author when someone shows me how that is Code compliant. Note: the Code
does not list the roles of teachers and students in the 1700's as a criteria
for determining authorship. Tip: the Code does provide the rules for
determining name authorship which just happen to be based on the information
available in the original publication. Further tip: the author of a name is
not necessarily the same person whose name appears on the cover of a
document and is not even necessarily the person who even wrote the OD.
Consider the case of authorship of Lycaena dione as an example of the latter
point. Final tip: name authorship per the Code is not the same concept as a
bibliographic listing of a document.

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Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management
845 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1H3
Phone 250-365-8610
Mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca       



 
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