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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:04:43 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Cc: Mailing List - Dinosaur <dinosaur@usc.edu>, Mailing List - PhyloCode <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
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(crossposted to the PhyloCode Mailing List) Re: Homonyms between taxonomic codes, and how PhyloCode should deal w= ith them. --- Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu> wrote: > Quoting "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>: >=20 > > One possibility I'll throw out there is to suggest adding prefixe= s 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 unnecessa= ry, but it > > seems to me it would help speed up and smoothen out the conversio= n process. >=20 > I'd prefer compounding the name with -zoon or -phyton: e.g. "Gasto= niozoon". I understand why that would be more proper etymologically, but I thin= k it would create confusion, since tacking on a suffix sometimes requires modify= ing the root. For example, you changed an "a" to an "o". What if there's some= thing else named _Gastonio_? The only way for this to work simply (which is, after all, the idea h= ere, and feel free to argue against that idea) would be to require keeping the= root the same. But, since many names end in consonants, this would prove unwie= ldy, e.g. "Ficuszoon" or worse. The reason I proposed prefixes ending in vowels is because they can b= e tacked on to anything. (Well, okay, adding "Zoo-" to a clade starting with "= O" could be awkward ... hmmm ... I dunno, maybe it doesn't work.) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D> T. Michael Keesey <http://dino.lm.com/contact> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D> The Dinosauricon <http://dinosauricon.com> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D> Instant Messenger <Ric Blayze> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =09=09 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now.=20 http://messenger.yahoo.com