renaming genera (rankless)

[Ken Kinman]

Philip,
     When you have an animal genus and plant genus spelled the same, how
will you determine which gets replaced?  In many cases, you are going to
have either unhappy botanists or unhappy zoologists.
     But leaving that aside, what will you do when one of the names is a
genus and the other is a higher taxon.  For instance, Archaea is a genus of
spider, and it is also one of Woese's Three Domains of Life.
     Does the spider genus get renamed because it is a lower taxon, or
rename Domain Archaea because it was named later.  Of course you could
always side-step the issue by using the name Metabacteria, which has
priority over Woese's name anyway (and the name is also more appropriate).
But these are the kinds of things you are going to encounter (plus others
that you probably never anticipated).
                     ------Ken
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