tanganaicae vs tanganyicae

[Birger]

Synodontis tanganaicae vs. Synodontis tanganyicae

There is a background story of why there is the mixup between these two names...we have been using the 2006 revision for much of our information on Tanganyikan Synodontis and in this revision the authors do use tanganaicae... I think we should be using it as well...opinions?

Birger

[Jools]

Agreed. It's been discussed before (search on tanganaicae) at which point I went for the "follow fishbase" route - the paper was quite new. It is well accepted now and indeed I totally agree a namechange is correct. We should also add a synonym record for the other name too.

Jools

[Birger]

I have made the necessary changes, as soon as Marc does the synonym record this can be moved.

Birger

[Marc van Arc]

Done.

Btw: FB considers the old "us"-spelling (like S. leopardinus) as spelling mistakes. I think they should be added or remained, if only for the hits you'd otherwise miss.
Agreed?

[MatsP]

I think the "us" spelling should be a synonym as well. Whilst keeping genuine mistakes/uncommon/single misspellings in our synonyms table is clearly not a good plan, keeping systematic, often used misspellings makes sense - especially if they have been in use for decades by all publications during that time...

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Mats

[Birger]

Agreed.

Birger

[Jools]

I think they should be added or remained, if only for the hits you'd otherwise miss.

Without doubt.

Jools

[MatsP]

Not that we need further arguments for, but in case someone reviews this in 4 years time or some such: It also helps old posts that use clog tags in "old names", e.g.

Synodontis angelicus

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Mats