help with a name

mark zukaitis mzukaitis@msn.com
Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:00:47 PDT
Hopefully with base pair sequencing these issues should go away

> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:20:44 -0700
> From: piabinha@yahoo.com
> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [pbs] help with a name
> 
> i heard that there's a botanist that is quite prolific at describing "new" species of amaryllids, even when they are just variants of the same species.  i guess he just likes to see his name published.
> 
> it reminds me of how biologists need to be careful in using external characteristics to differentiate taxa, such as color.  or in erecting new genera with a descriptive that may not apply to all species.  for example, the fish Melanotaenia, a common aquaria subject.  meaning "black stripe", it doesn't apply to all species in the genus.
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> tsuh yang
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> > Creating a new genus for a
> > different color is ridiculous. As things are, Pyrolirion is
> > a valid genus separated from Zephyranthes/Cooperia/Haylockia
> > and Habranthus.
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