I usually get a pretty good laugh from Art's postings but this one is
really bizzare.   If a name is different it is different.  One letter,
twenty letters it doesn't matter.  Just because people can't type correctly
or are dyslexic doesn't mean we should change the code (or the Bill of
Rights, whichever you prefer).   The words friend and fiend are one letter
off.  Does this mean we throw one out and eliminate it from the dictionary?
Attention to detail is the key and the "duty" lies with the individual.
 
>Date:    Tue, 2 Jun 1998 22:50:40 -0500
>From:    MR ART WEIL <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Taxonomy question
>
>We are behaving as if article 56-B was part of the Bill of Rights. It
>is a badly constructed article and poorly applied. It should be part
>of the ICZN duties to make sure that names cannot be misconstrued. A
>one letter difference does not make that clear. The ICZN should now
>write an amendment that states that no two species of mollusk should
>be able to be confused because similarities in their names. If there
>is such similarity, the one described most recently should be changed.
> Paul Monfils has some fine examples.
>          Art
 
 
Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
Champaign, IL
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/mollusk.html
 
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