Loch Ness monster

[Curtis Clark]

At 02:32 PM 2/22/96 -0700, Joe Laferriere wrote:
>I read in the popular press that someone coined a scientific name for the
>Loch Ness monster. Is this true? In botany you could not do that without
>a type specimen or at the very least a type illustration. Are the rules
>similar in zoology?

_Nessiteras rhombopteryx_.  The type is a photo of an alleged pectoral
appendage from an automated underwater camera.  My understanding is that it
was named because only named species can be protected under UK law.

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