[Taxacom] species names for sale.

[Neal Evenhuis]

At 5:25 PM -0800 1/25/07, Curtis Clark wrote:
>On 2007-01-25 07:33, Ken Kinman wrote:
>>  And as long as it involves speciose
>>  groups and is done in good taste.
>
>Speciose groups for sure, but also species-rich ones.
>
>http://www.bible-history.com/latin/latin_s.html
>http://www.curator.org/legacyvmnh/WebOfLife/Species/species.htm (just
>before the bibliography)
>

Speciose can also mean species-rich. The following is from a request 
I made to Michael Quinion (host of World wide Words), who checked 
with the folks at OED concerning "speciose" in the context of 
species-rich:

>Following up 'speciose'. The OED science editor says it has been
>traced back to 1955 and is in the New Shorter Oxford Dictionary
(the big two-volume one).

Cheers,

Neal