Talk:Hartebeest
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Umimmak in topic Some author citations are incorrect
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Some author citations are incorrect
editI noticed several mistakes w.r.t author citations. I can't check all of them right now, but remember that parentheses around an author citation mean that it was originally described in a different genus and also that the author does not change (other than the parentheses) when the genus is transferred.
For instance, in the synonyms:
- Antilope buselaphus Pallas, 1766
- Antilope bubalis Pallas, 1767
Since Pallas described them in the genus Antilope, there should be no parentheses.
- B. buselaphus would have the author citation (Pallas, 1766), maybe (Pallas, 1766) Lichtenstein, 1814 but certainly not just (Lichtenstein, 1814)
For the subspecies
- A. b. cokii Günther, 1884 — parentheses are incorrect as Günther described it as Alcelaphus cokii, i.e., within the same genus.
- A. b. tora Gray, 1873 also should not have parentheses.