At 11:47 AM 6/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Do the rules of taxonomy allow for generic names that are identical
>except for the gender-specific suffix?
Yes, Article 56b of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature says
"Even if the difference between two genus-group names is only one letter,
these names are not homonyms."
Gary
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