Dunkleosteus77, things have gotten fairly busy for me, but I haven't forgotten this review and hope to come back to it by the end of the week. Happy holidays to you if you're celebrating anything!
Enwebb (
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15:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Why did von Meyer propose two different subgenera in the same publication? This seems somewhat unusual
Shouldn't authority be in parentheses, given that the current combination is not the first combination? This goes for all the synonyms too except Orca meyeri
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zoological author citation, parentheses go around all author citations that are not the original combination. Since the authority is given as Brandt 1873 where he described it as Orca meyeri, all other combinations should have parentheses.
"...and there is room for debate on the question of its validity" unclear "its" here in light of the next sentence. The taxon's, O. meyeri, or D. acutidens?
I feel like I was following along in the taxonomy section okay until the last sentence. How could Abel consider one name to be synonymous with Physeterula dubusi but not the other? He considered them different taxa?
For the description section, perhaps a table would be nice to better compare O. meyeri with modern killer whales. It's a bit hard to keep it straight in the prose.
Given the general scarcity of information about this taxon, I think this article is broad in its coverage. Well written, free of copyvio, illustrated, neutral, and stable. Well done.
Enwebb (
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15:32, 7 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Dunkleosteus77, things have gotten fairly busy for me, but I haven't forgotten this review and hope to come back to it by the end of the week. Happy holidays to you if you're celebrating anything!
Enwebb (
talk)
15:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Why did von Meyer propose two different subgenera in the same publication? This seems somewhat unusual
Shouldn't authority be in parentheses, given that the current combination is not the first combination? This goes for all the synonyms too except Orca meyeri
For
zoological author citation, parentheses go around all author citations that are not the original combination. Since the authority is given as Brandt 1873 where he described it as Orca meyeri, all other combinations should have parentheses.
"...and there is room for debate on the question of its validity" unclear "its" here in light of the next sentence. The taxon's, O. meyeri, or D. acutidens?
I feel like I was following along in the taxonomy section okay until the last sentence. How could Abel consider one name to be synonymous with Physeterula dubusi but not the other? He considered them different taxa?
For the description section, perhaps a table would be nice to better compare O. meyeri with modern killer whales. It's a bit hard to keep it straight in the prose.
Given the general scarcity of information about this taxon, I think this article is broad in its coverage. Well written, free of copyvio, illustrated, neutral, and stable. Well done.
Enwebb (
talk)
15:32, 7 January 2020 (UTC)reply