code of nomenclature question

Ron at Ron at
Wed Jul 27 01:53:03 CDT 2005


I wrote:

"..., but it would probably be best to say "the (Subgenus) elegans group of
Caenorhabditis...."  The parenthesis are necessary to show it is a
subgenus."

I forgot you said you didn't want to use subgeneric names.  Then just write
it like this.  "The (elegans) group of Caenorhabditis..."  This is per
Article 6 on aggregates of species names.

Ron Gatrelle




More information about the Taxacom mailing list