Talk:Eurybrachidae

List of species

I have removed the list because it contained several worryingly questionable claims. I am tempted to suspect vandalism, but am not moved to check back in history. As it stands it also is uncited and in looking for citable sources, I find that the family is under revision anyway and has something of a turbulent history, so I am not at present happy to start a new list. If anyone knows better, feel free to get going on one, but I'll be decidedly snotty about checking the citations. (Promise!) JonRichfield (talk) 18:23, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Spelling controversy

Rather than dealing with this in the text, I will make a note of the situation here, as I understand it. Under Article 29.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the spelling of this family should be "Eurybrachyidae", and many authors have used (or continue to use) this spelling. However, as of 2000, the Code's rules (specifically, Article 29.5) allow for the following to apply: "If a spelling of a family-group name was not formed in accordance with Article 29.3 but is in prevailing usage, that spelling is to be maintained, whether or not it is the original spelling and whether or not its derivation from the name of the type genus is in accordance with the grammatical procedures in Articles 29.3.1 and 29.3.2." As such, it appears that the preponderance of recent literature on this family does use the spelling "Eurybrachidae", and so under the present edition of the Code, this spelling is to be maintained. The continued parallel usage of the alternate, and more correct spelling, is certainly a cause of confusion, but the Code's definition of "prevailing usage" is generous enough that it does appear that Article 29.5 takes precedence in this particular case. It does cause a bit of a mess here in Wikipedia to fix all the links to the alternate spelling, but I'll do my best to get that all straightened out. Dyanega (talk) 20:10, 15 April 2015 (UTC)