Confusing names (2)

[Scott Federhen]

We maintain a taxonomy database at the NCBI,
for the organism names that are found in the various sequence databases.
Over the past eight years we have come across many examples of duplicated names
- I have appended a list of 87 duplicates below.
Some of these have been resolved, and not all of them have
representatives from both groups in the sequence databases.

At one point, we listed a genus name in triplicate.
I remember seeing a TAXACOM posting some years ago
that include a list of 8-10 valid triplicated genus names,
between the bacteriological, plant and animal codes.
I'll repost it if I can find it again.

I have even seen a few examples of duplicated binomials.

  Poria cocos (fungus & beetle)
  Pieris japonica (butterfly & plant)
  Culcita novaeguineae (starfish)
  Culcita novae-guineae (fern)

Of these, only Porio cocos (the fungus) is currently represented
in GenBank.

:Scott Federhen
 GenBank Taxonomy Group

Abrionia        - lizard and angiosperm
Adenophora      - flowering plant & humpbacked fly
Agathis         - conifer & wasp
Alsophila       - moth & tree-fern
Ammophila       - wasp & grass
Aphrodite       - archaeon & polychaete (Aphrodite aculeata - sea mouse)
Arenaria        - plant & bird
Articulata      - echinoderm [-] & brachiopod [class]
Ascoidea        - ticks [superfamily] & yeast
Atyidae         - shrimps [family] & mollusc [family]
Autonoe         - angiosperm & amphipod
Bacillus        - bacterium & insect
Bdelloidea      - rotifer [class] & mite [superfamily]
Branchiura      - crustacean [order] & oligochaete
Buchnera        - plant & bacteria
Bursaria        - angiosperm & ciliate
Centipeda       - firmicute & sunflower
Charybdis       - crab & angiosperm [note siblings: Scylla & Scilla]
Crambe          - plant & sponge
Cryptococcus    - jelly fungus & scale insect
Culcita         - echinoderm & plant
Cystophora      - seal & brown algae
Decapoda        - mollusc & crustacean [both higher taxa]
Discina         - brachiopod & yeast
Donax           - angiosperm & bivalve
Drepanidae      - moth & fish (Drepaneidae?) [family]
Dryas           - butterfly & plant
Echinacea       - echinoderm [superorder] & plant
Echinops        - plant & mammal
Gambelia        - angiosperm & lizard
Glaucidium      - plant & bird
Gnathostomata   - echinoderm [superorder] & vertebrate [superclass]
Gordonia        - plant & bacteria
Graphium        - pyrenomycete & butterfly
Hoffmania       - diptera [subgenus] & plant [synonym, Hoffmannia]
Hymenolepis     - tapeworm & angiosperm
Kingella        - bacterium & plant
Leptonema       - spirochaete & plant
Limonia         - crane fly & plant
Liriope         - plant & hydrozoan
Lucilia         - blowfly & angiosperm
Macroglossinae  - bats [subfamily] & moths [subfamily]
Macrolenes      - leaf beetles & angiosperm
Mallotus        - fish & plant
Metidae         - spiders [family] & copepods [family]
Microsphaera    - actinomycete & ascomycete
Morganella      - proteobacterium & fungus
Morus           - bird & plant
Myrmecia        - green alga & insect
Nais            - pyrenomycete & oligochaete
Nelsonia        - rodent & plant
Oligochaeta     - annelid worm [class] & plant
Operculina      - angiosperm & foraminifer
Oxyporus        - basidiomycete & beetle
Palaeococcus    - euryarchaeote & scale insect
Palmeria        - bird & angiosperm
Pedinomonas     - green alga & chlorarachniophyte
Pholidota       - pangolin [order] & orchid [genus]
Pieris          - butterfly & plant
Philyra         - plant & crab (& sea spider?)
Planococcus     - insect & bacterium
Polyodontidae   - polychaete [family] & fish [family]
Polyphaga       - insect [genus, Blattaria] & [suborder, Coleoptera]
Polypodium      - hydrozoan & plant [subfamily?]
Poria           - fungus & beetle
Prionodon       - moss & civet
Proboscidea     - plant & mammal [order]
Proteomonas     - trypanosome & cryptomonad
Pycnoporus      - hymenomycete & flatworm
Raphia          - moth & palm
Rhynchophorus   - beetle & fungus [synonym, Ceratopycnis]
Rondeletia      - plant & whalefish
Rupicola        - bird & angiosperm
Salvadora       - mustard & snake
Sarcodon        - fungus & paleoryctid mammals [extinct]
Schlechtendalia - insect & plant
Schultesia      - cockroach & gentian
Setaria         - nematode & plant
Stenella        - dolphin & fungus
Thalia          - angiosperm & urochordate
Thelia          - moss & leafhopper
Tribolium       - beetle & grass
Uronema         - ciliate & green alga
Urostyla        - ciliate & insect
Urostylidae     - ciliate [family] & insect [family]
Valvatacea      - mollusc [superfamily] & echinoderm [superorder]
Venturia        - ascomycete & ichneumonid wasp