"Selling" species

[B. J. Tindall]

>Prof. Dr. Gerhard HASZPRUNAR wrote:

>(2) The neogastropod snail "Bufonaria borisbeckeri" was named 1996 by an
>amateur taxonomist, who is a fan of the tennis-star. This naming had and has
>nothing to do with BIOPAT, the correlation is pure "journalism".
>

Sorry I stand corrected, I heard the news only recently on the radio, so
there has obviously been some distortion over the past few years.

Best wishes
Brian Tindall




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