[Taxacom] Homonym of animal in protozoa

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 09:22 AM 5/8/2006, Charles Hussey wrote:
>David Remsen at uBIO is the person best placed to compile a list of
>genus-level homonyms. I am hoping to do so shortly. From data available on
>the Species 2000 Annual checklists and elsewhere, there are at least 5,400
>genus-level homonyms amongst Animalia, Plantae and Fungi. So, not a trivial
>issue once you start creating portals that search checklists across
>different kingdoms.

Somewhere (probably when BioCode was being debated, perhaps even here) I 
came across the fact that there were just seven generic names common to all 
three Codes: Catenococcus, Kingella, Microcyclus, Moorella, Morganella, 
Rhodococcus, Rothia.


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
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University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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