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Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:23:26 +0200
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
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Subject: Re: species names
> Many of the systematic problems I have dealt with in > working on dinosaurs are centered around the obligatory genus. I'd just as > soon get rid of them all as have to bend over backwards for them. > Tyrannosaurus is important for children's books, but if I ever deal with > that animal, I will be dealing with rex. Will please children all over the (Western) world -- 6-year-olds don't say *Tyrannosaurus*, they say "the rex" or "the dinosaur rex", at least here in Austria. B-) Whether *Tyrannosaurus* is monotypic is, of course, another problem...