Duplicate taxonomic names

[Richard Jensen]

Many thanks to all who replied, both on- and off-list.  I was looking for a
couple of good examples and now I have a wealth of good examples.  And, it's
clear to me that my archives search strategy was not well structured.

Cheers,

Dick

"B.J.Tindall" wrote:

> That sounds familiar.
> Microcyclus under the Bacteriological Code is illegitimate - a later
> homonym of a fungal genus name - and has been replaced by Anyclobacter -
> see John McNeill's mail.
> Moorella is also a later homonym of a fungal genus name and is
> illegitimate, but no-one has got around to creating a new name.
> I think Rhodococcus and Catenococcus are also probably illegitimate under
> the Bacteriological Code because the names are later homonyms of algal
> generic names. The bacterial generic name Rhodococcus (been in use since
> 1891) is so well known in bacteriology that it would probably be difficult
> to change it.
> Brian
>
> At 12:31 2.6.2005 -0500, Thomas G. Lammers wrote:
> >At 12:19 PM 6/2/2005, Richard Jensen wrote:
> >
> >>As I recall, sometime during the past year there were some postings to
> >>taxacom providing examples of identical botanical and zoological taxonomic
> >>names.
> >
> >Somewhere (probably in some BioCode discussion somewhere), I came across
> >the fact that the following seven generic names apply to plant, animal, AND
> >microbe (all three codes):
> >Catenococcus, Kingella, Microcyclus, Moorella, Morganella, Rhodococcus,
> Rothia.
> >
> >
> >Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.
> >
> >Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
> >Department of Biology and Microbiology
> >University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
> >Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA
> >
> >e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
> >phone:      920-424-1002
> >fax:           920-424-1101
> >
> >Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
> >biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
> >
> >Webpages:
> >http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/biology/Lammers.htm
> >http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/biology/herbarium/herbarium.html
> >http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Resort/7156/lammers.html
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