Talk:Calliostoma

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Synonyms and valid names

I have found a large number of articles about some species of Calliostoma that were previously created but were not included in the list. I have included them, but doing that I realized that many names are very similar (and also they have the same binomial authority). I mean: the previous created articles have very similar names to other names in the list, but there is no reference in the article to these names as synonyms. The online databases didn't help me very much to solve these questions.

A the moment, I have linked the original names in the list to the created articles with very similar names.

I think that an expert should be:

• Either correct the article title of those previously created articles
• or correct the binomial in the list
• and add the synonym wherever it was neccesary (and the binomial_authorities too).

The mentioned pairs of ambiguous names are:

Previously created article	Previous name in the list
Calliostoma babelicum	Calliostoma babelica
Calliostoma amamiense	Calliostoma amamiensis
Calliostoma bisculptus	Calliostoma bisculptum
Calliostoma cleopatra	Calliostoma cleopathra
Calliostoma comptum	Calliostoma comptus
Calliostoma consobrinum	Calliostoma consobrina
Calliostoma fernandesi	Calliostoma fernandezi
Calliostoma gualterianum	Calliostoma gualterianus
Calliostoma hayamanus	Calliostoma hayamanum
Calliostoma incertum	Calliostoma incerta
Calliostoma jackelynae	Calliostoma jacquelinae
Calliostoma leptophyma	Calliostoma leptophymum
Calliostoma margaritissimum	Calliostoma margaritissimus
Calliostoma multiliratum	Calliostoma multiliratus
Calliostoma opalinum	Calliostoma opalinus
Calliostoma problematicum	Calliostoma problematicus
Calliostoma shinagawense	Calliostoma shinagawaensis
Calliostoma takaseanum	Calliostoma takaseanus
Calliostoma tosaense	Calliostoma tosaensis
Calliostoma tsuchijai	Calliostoma tsuchiyai
Calliostoma vaubani	Calliostoma vaubanii

Other articles, both already created, with very similar names:

Calliostoma belauense	Calliostoma belauensis
Calliostoma madagascarense	Calliostoma madagascariensis
Calliostoma spectabile	Calliostoma spectabilis

Flakinho (talk) 16:28, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

All species have to be referenced, especially in this complicated case. I will let generate the list of automatically created articles, then I will reference the rest of them and others will be deleted or marked with Template:fact. --Snek01 (talk) 17:01, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

I have checked them. Done. --Snek01 (talk) 22:11, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your work, Snek01. Flakinho (talk) 16:38, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

I just wanted to say that these kinds of misspellings, or mistaken recollections, are very commonly encountered in lists of scientific names of organisms. Some of these misspellings arise because the person using the name misunderstands the gender of the genus name (thinking as in this case that an "-a" ending always implies a female genus name, when sometimes and "-a" ending is found in a neuter name). Other mistakes occur because the person writing the name does not understand that the ending "-ensis" means found in the place mentioned in the first part of the species name. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 20:23, 4 July 2010 (UTC)