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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:28:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>
To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at, Mailing List - PhyloCode <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: Intercode homonyms (was Re: Registration)
--- David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 11:52 PM > > > One possibility I'll throw out there is to suggest adding prefixes to the > > younger names: perhaps "Phyto-" if covered by the ICBN, "Zoo-" if covered > > by the ICZN, and "Monero-" if covered by the BC. Thus the animal _Gastonia_ > > could be converted as Zoogastonia, etc. Perhaps this is unnecessary, but it > > seems to me it would help speed up and smoothen out the conversion process. > > Yes. But in a few cases, I'd suggest looking at the meaning of the word. > *Ficus*, a genus of trees as well as of clams, is such a case: the Latin > word means "fig", and the clams are probably named after looking like figs. > I'd say that the name should stay with the trees regardless of priority (I > don't know which has priority). No issue, in this case: _Ficus_ Linnaeus (the fig) predates _Ficus_ Röding 1798 (the gastropod [not clam]). (Although the generic name of the gastropod is the same as Linnaeus' trivial epithet for it.) Regardless, though, I'd be really wary of recommending that etymology should dictate taxonomy -- that's a sticky area. > However, this is only an issue for names that will actually get converted. > Perhaps one of the two *Ficus* will turn out to be so paraphyletic that > conversion would be disruptive to nomenclature; in that case it'll just drop > out of the problem. Good point. That would be nice -- I have no idea.... ===== =====> T. Michael Keesey <http://dino.lm.com/contact> =====> The Dinosauricon <http://dinosauricon.com> =====> Instant Messenger <Ric Blayze> ===== _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush