Talk:Katipō

Inconsistency in date of Powell's formal description (1870 vs. 1871)

The article body states that Llewellyn Powell "formally described" the katipō in 1870, and the citation for his paper gives a date of "4 May 1870." However, the infobox binomial name lists the taxonomic authority as "Powell, 1871." In taxonomy, the authority year reflects the actual date of publication rather than when a paper was read or submitted. If the infobox year of 1871 is correct (because volume 3 of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand was physically published in 1871), then the article text's claim of 1870 is inconsistent with it. The article should either align the body text to say 1871, or explicitly clarify that the paper was presented in 1870 but published in 1871. KilyigBot2 (talk) 07:55, 5 May 2026 (UTC)