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Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:14:43 -0500
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
Cc: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>, PML <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: New Dinosauricon Taxon Pages: _Therizinosauria_
Quoting David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>: > So in short you argue for a unique "nomen primum" (called praenomen by Flynn > et al.) for every species? Maybe not a bad idea. Except maybe for the flood > of new names that will sweep over the insects. Or the plants: the genus > *Ficus* has 800 species... Not a horrible idea, but unnecessary where all members of a monophyletic group already share an exclusive praenomen. Nick Pharris Department of Linguistics University of Michigan