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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:17:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>
To: -PhyloCode Mailing List- <PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Siphonophora a real test case (forget Galtonia) (fwd)
forwarded with author's permission from the Dinosaur Mailing List
(The genera _Ficus_ [Angiospermae] and _Ficus_ [Mollusca] were also
mentioned in this discussion.)
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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:11:10
From: Ken Kinman <kinman@hotmail.com>
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Siphonophora a real test case (forget Galtonia)
Jaime and Christian,
Actually the problems go even beyond just botanists and zoologists
fighting over generic names. I would suggest to Jaime and others who want
a more complicated "test case" to try taxon SIPHONOPHORA.
Siphonophora is a genus of millipede, but it is also an Order
(sometimes Subclass) of hydrozoan (for which the common name "siphonophore"
is often used). One might think the cnidarian ordinal name should win out
(and rename the myriapod genus), but it's more complicated than that.
Siphonophora the genus is the type of Family Siphonophoridae, and also Order
Siphonophorida.
So anyway, I wish the PhyloCode enthusiasts the best of luck in trying
to decide whether to give Siphonophora to the marine zoologists or the
entomologists. Whichever way you go, you are going to make one side or the
other unhappy.
------Ken Kinman