Dear Wes,
At 08:35 AM 6/4/98 -1000, you wrote:
>It occurs to me that a number of beginners in taxonomy may be slightly
>confused by two terms used in this thread:
>
>"group": as used in genus-group and species-group.
Genus-group: includes genus and subgenus; species-group: includes species
and subspecies.
>"later established" relating to secondary homonyms. Does this
>indicate that the date of the specific name was later?
Yes.
>Aloha
>Wes
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