• journal_title：Mineralogical Magazine
• Contributor：A. G. Christy ; D. Atencio
• Publisher：Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Date：2013-02-01
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1180/minmag.2013.077.1.02
• journal_abbrev：Mineralogical Magazine
• issn：0026-461X
• volume：77
• issue：1
• firstpage：13
• section：Letter

After careful consideration of the semantics of status categories for mineral species names, minor corrections and disambiguations are presented for a recent report on the nomenclature of the pyrochlore supergroup. The names betafite, elsmoreite, microlite, pyrochlore and roméite are allocated as group names within the pyrochlore supergroup. The status of the names bindheimite, bismutostibiconite, jixianite, monimolite, partzite, stetefeldtite and stibiconite is changed from ‘discredited’ to ‘questionable’ pending further research.