Geoff Read wrote:
>
> If uninominals ever come into vogue this antipodean is wondering how to
> make readable a paper in which Platynereis australis, Chloeia australis,
> and Pectinaria australis co-occur with Psammolyce antipoda, Nereis
> antipoda, and Scolelepis antipoda, not to mention Prionospio
> aucklandica, Lepidastheniella aucklandica, Dawbinia aucklandica, and of
> course Sthenelais novaezealandiae, Panthalis novaezealandiae, and
> Phylo novazealandiae. There are about twenty 'australis' epithets just in
> polychaetes, let alone the rest of the marine invertebrates. Augener
> described two 'aucklandica,' McIntosh described two 'neozelaniae' and,
> wait for it ... at least eight 'kerguelensis.' It could be tricky doing
Greetings:
I don't think Geoff underestimates the potential for confusion. In the
SCAMIT species list for mega and macro invertebrates of Southern
California( marine)...there are 90 unique taxa names of the species
"californica"....there are 20 different species names "californicus"
and about 30 species names "californiensis". A few of these are
alternate spellings of genera or current synonyms, but most are not.
bye for now,
Tom Parker
<tparker at lacsd.org>
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