italicization of family names

[JOSEPH E. LAFERRIERE]

>I would like to add to Jim Reveral's
>comments that TAXON is now italiiczing
>family names.

On which side of the Atlantic is Taxon published?

There is of course a logical inconsistency inherit
in all of this. If you ask the question of why
scientific names are italicized, the answer usually
is that they are foreign words and words in a foreign
language are traditionally italicized. But family
and ordinal and class names are every bit as Latin
as generic and specific names. And I have never seen
anyone italicize the latin diagnosis of a new name.

--
Dr. Joseph E. Laferriere
"Computito ergo sum ...  I link therefore I am."